Details
An early portrait Jumeau
with closed mouth, blue yeux fibres, applied pierced ears, blonde skin wig and eight ball jointed wood and papier mâché fixed wrist body, dressed in cream underclothes, brown velvet fur lined cape and leather shoes - 18in. 46cm. high, body stamped in blue JUMEAU medaille d'or Paris, impressed 8
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with closed mouth, blue yeux fibres, applied pierced ears, blonde skin wig and eight ball jointed wood and papier mâché fixed wrist body, dressed in cream underclothes, brown velvet fur lined cape and leather shoes - 18in. 46cm. high, body stamped in blue JUMEAU medaille d'or Paris, impressed 8
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Further details
This doll belonged to the great grandmother of the present owner, Mable Margarat Leadbetter. She was born in 1874 at the White House, St Andrews in Fife and died Mrs William Norman Boase in 1965.