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A similar doll with the Dressel & Kister mark can be seen on page 29 of the Collector's Encyclopedia of Half-Dolls by Frieda Marion and Normal Werner
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A fine Half Doll by Dressel & Kister
with painted features, grey hair elaborately styled and decorated with a wreath of china roses, arms outstretched holding a china rose and unusual china legs with mauve flat shoes, dressed in original silk and gold braid trimmed frock sitting on a padded pincushion seat -- 8½.in. (22cm.) high
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with painted features, grey hair elaborately styled and decorated with a wreath of china roses, arms outstretched holding a china rose and unusual china legs with mauve flat shoes, dressed in original silk and gold braid trimmed frock sitting on a padded pincushion seat -- 8½.in. (22cm.) high
See Illustration