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    Sale 4106

    Fine Dolls, Dolls' Houses, Automata and Traditional Toys

    London, South Kensington

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    5 October 2006

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    • A pale early pressed bisque Ma
    Lot 44

    A pale early pressed bisque Madame Rohmer fashionable doll

    Price realised

    GBP 900

    Estimate

    GBP 400 - GBP 600

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    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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