Convolute for the doll doctor circa 1910, partly marked, consisting of "made-up" Schoenau & Hoffmeister doll 1909 with bisque porcelain crank head, child's face, sleeping eyes and 15-piece jointed body; Old, Beck & Gottschalck character baby 1353 with damaged bisque porcelain crank head and sitting baby body and celluloid doll with chest leaf head, fixed glass eyes, leather body and defective celluloid arms and ground legs, all with open mouth, real hair wig and dressed, variously played, partly repaired and in need of repair condition, L 35 cm, 45 and 55 cm.

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