American Cloth Doll, Brown Hair and Eyes by Martha Chase, in Original Box

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15" (38 cm.) All-cloth doll with pressed and oil-painted facial features of slender-shaped face, brown sculpted hair drawn smoothly around her face and forming into a coiled chignon at the back, two tiny spit curls at the forehead, painted large brown eyes, red eyeliner, curly upper lashes, single-stroke brows, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth in very solemn expression, sateen cover on torso, oil-painted limbs with stitch-jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, separately-stitched thumbs. Condition: near mint. Marks: (Chase logo stamp on leg) The Chase Stockinette Doll (label on back torso). Comments: Martha Chase, circa 1910, from her series of storybook characters. Value Points: perfectly-preserved doll with rare hair style, rare brown eyes, preserved in her original labeled box.