An early 20th century Kestner bisque-headed doll

With weighted eyes and "real" eyebrows, an articulated body, and marked to the back 'E 1/2 Made in Germany 9 1/2 and 196'.

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Dimensions: 52cm high overall

A note from the vendor:

"I first was given it as a gift, as a child in the 1950’s in Anchorage, Alaska. (My parents had gone to Alaska after WWII as my father was designing air traffic control equipment). The story was that the doll was found in an old trunk and an elderly friend of my mother’s (perhaps born in about 1890) had sewn by hand a new set of silk clothes for the doll in the fashion of colonial America circa 1776. My mother then got the doll for my birthday, as I was interested in history and most girls then loved dolls. I was very impressed with this doll with pearly teeth, which was fully jointed, and had “real” eyebrows! How did this German doll get all the way to Alaska during the course of about 50 years? Possibly the doll travelled with various owners from the East Coast of the States, where it may have first been imported from Germany to the West Coast, and from there on the long journey up to Alaska. I never knew the exact story. When my family moved to California in 1968, the doll was taken there, then my parents moved to Maine in New England taking the doll, and after that the doll was sent to me after I had moved to England."