TWO ANCIENT POUPEES including a Jules Verlingue porcelain-headed hybrid doll marked "Liane", German-made composition body, open mouth, fixed brown eyes, wearing communiante clothes and an Armand Marseille 390 porcelain-headed German doll marked "A6/0M Germany", composition body, open mouth over row of teeth, tilting blue eyes, wearing a 1920s green crepe dress and hat set (used condition). Size. 31 and 30 cm.

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