Lot 31
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A pressed bisque fashionable doll
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more Violet's Dolls Violet de Portal was born in 1867, the daughter of a Canon in the Church of England who worked for the Duke of Northumberland and the Earl of Caernarvon. The de Portals were Huguenots mainly based in Hampshire and printers specialising in bank notes. The family firm was bought out by de la Rue about forty years ago. The following three lots are sold by Violet's grand-daughters.
A pressed bisque fashionable doll

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A pressed bisque fashionable doll
with swivel neck, blue glass eyes, closed mouth, ears pierced into head, black hair wig on cork pate, bisque shoulder plate, kid body with gussetted elbows and straight pink kid legs, wearing wine coloured wool frock with apron, wool petticoat and underclothes --13in. (33cm.) high (tiny flake to corner of right eye)
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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