Sale 4106
London, South Kensington
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5 October 2006
Price realised
GBP 384
Estimate
A Kestner 129 child doll with brown sleeping eyes, brown hair wig with plaster pate, jointed composition body, white cut-work and lace frock and underclothes --18in. (46cm.) high; a Jutta doll box (damaged); and a dolls' pram with wooden carriage, oil-cloth hood and turned wood handle --27in. (68.5cm.) high (3)
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