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 Charming 16” ( 41cm ) 1880s era German wax-over-papier-mache shoulder head doll with blue glass sleep eyes, a closed mouth with slight fretful expression, head mounted to the original muslin covered stuffed body with nice white kid forearms with individually stitched fingers. There are sewn joints at shoulders, hips, and knees which allow her to be seated if desired. Tied to her solid dome head is the original brown human hair wig still retaining all its long “ sausage “curls with one on right side of head tied with an antique silk ribbon. The simple period clothing appears likely to be original and consists of a one piece gauzy muslin dress in an “ off- the- shoulder” style, high narrow waist, and silk ribbon bows at ends of both sleeves. Underwear consists of two full cotton slips, the outer slightly longer than the inner, with a third “onesie “ clinging to the body all the way to the knees. She has no socks nor shoes. Around her neck she still retains her period small red glass bead necklace. Overall condition is very good considering age and type with a few typical crazes to outer wax primarily above the eyes. Simple but sweet and all original!……………………………………….US$ 225.

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 Charming 24” ( 62cm ) German wax-over-papier -mache shoulder head doll with glass eyes, molded yellow hair with blue headband in the generic style referred to as the “ Alice”-type that was represented in dolls made in a variety of materials including china, parian, papier-mache and perhaps most desirable the“ Motschmann”- style porcelain dolls. This sweet 1860s era doll has a muslin covered stuffed body with sewn joints at shoulders and hips, composition lower legs, and heavily wax coated composition lower arms in similar manner as the head. In additional to antique undergarments, she wears a dark blue cotton print period dress whose coloring helps accentuate the blue in the molded head band. The glass eyes are not sleeping at this time but most likely did originally. As we have not attempted ( nor will do so ) remove the head, we cannot say definitively whether the eyes have been reset in the stationary position or, if the eyes can indeed still sleep but the head cavity has been stuffed from the bottom up. Regardless she is in relatively good condition for a doll of this age and these materials!…………….US$ 235.