$1,700
Sold
sold
Click image to enlarge
Description
9" (23 cm.) Each is all-wooden with one-piece head and torso,dowel-jointing at
shoulders,elbows,hips and knees,the woman with black painted hair decorated with highly-
stylized spit curls and tuck comb,elongated throat,and tiny centered painted features; and the
boy with short black hair,suggestion of sideburns,painted features. Condition:
good,unrestored,costumes are original albeit frail. Comments: Grodnertal,circa 1830,the dolls
were featured in Ackerman's Dolls in Miniature. Value Points: both dolls wear their original
stylized costumes.