Sale 4106
London, South Kensington
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5 October 2006
Price realised
GBP 900
Estimate
A pale early pressed bisque Madame Rohmer fashionable doll with fixed bright blue eyes, unpierced ears, flange neck, blonde mohair wig, stuffed and gussetted kid body with jointed wood and kid upper arms and bisque forearms, wearing black and white striped pinafore dress, underclothes and beaded black silk jacket, with extra accessories including bonnets, stockings, sabots and crochet bootees, 1860s --14in. (36cm.) high, unreadable stamp on body (chip and cracks to back of neck, hands damaged)
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