Doll
French Fashion Doll
Lady Doll, possibly Jumeau
1860 – 1865 (Earliest/Latest dates)
15in H
French fashion doll. Fine kid leather-gusseted body. Bisque shoulders and head. Paperweight (rounded) blue eyes- fixed. Blue jacket and skirt (once a French blue, now faded) with hand-knit cotton stockings, matching petticoat, and painted glass jewelry. Blonde human hair braided and wrapped around the head.
Joy Keliher ("Special Joys" shop Coventry, CT) 1997 doll survey found this doll to be the best in the collection because of condition and rarity. Mrs. Keliher suggested that this doll may have come from the Jumeau shop in France.
Joy Keliher ("Special Joys" shop Coventry, CT) 1997 doll survey found this doll to be the best in the collection because of condition and rarity. Mrs. Keliher suggested that this doll may have come from the Jumeau shop in France.
1960.009.005