$300
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Description
13" (33 cm.) Composition head with wooden neck socket, painted hair with long forelock curl, painted facial features, blue side-glancing eyes with long lashes, button-shaped nose, closed mouth with downcast lips, muslin body with disc-jointing at shoulders and hips, composition lower legs with painted black boots, wearing his original blue sailor suit. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Effanbee Skippy c. P.L. Crosby. Comments: Effanbee, their licensed Skippy doll, based on the comic strip character drawn by Percy Crosby, and in 1931 made into a movie with child actor, Jackie Cooper. Value Points: the character doll, with cross-over interest in comic strips and celebrity dolls, is wonderfully executed with simple line-painted features, has original gold heart paper wrist tag.