this lot is an around the world tour in dolls. It includes 1st and 2nd a pair of corn husk dolls each with pack on their backs of wood, painted in red and blue dyes and marked Made in Mexico, 9" and 9.5" tall, PLUS 3rd and 4th a pair of Haitian cloth dolls, stuffed with straw, embroidered faces and wool yarn hair, woven split cane hats and shoes, 12" tall, PLUS 5th a printed feed sack-type American Aunt Jemima doll, stuffed with wood shavings, 7.5" tall, PLUS 6th and 7th a pair of Central American woven palm dolls, lady and man each carrying two large pineapples stained in red, purple, green and natural palm, with wood base, hers under floor length woven skirt, and him in woven hat, 9" tall, PLUS 8th a woven palm and inked Bali Dancer with elaborated headdress, stamped Bali on back, 12.5" tall, PLUS 9th a molded and painted resin and wood doll of an Ecuadorian Indian pan pipe player in woven cotton traditional outfit with green wool felt hat on wood base marked Industrias Akios Akios Industries Native Handicraft Hand Made in Ecuador Quito POB 219 and dated 1968, 9" tall, PLUS 10th and 11th a pair of Greek cloth dolls, soldier and lady, both with molded and painted features, wool hair and very elaborate traditional costumes with much gold brocade embroidery, she is 9.5" and he is 11" tall, PLUS 11th a carved and painted wooden doll marked on wooden base Made In Lebanon of an Arab man in traditional cloth outfit and carrying a wooden water jug, 9.25" tall, PLUS 12th a cloth doll from Brazil, lady with very well done embroidered and molded face, black cloth hair in pony tails, red bandana, beaded earrings and necklace and sequined blouse and skirt, 9.5" tall, PLUS 13th an all cloth doll of a female fruit seller, likely Haitian with embroidered face, grass hair under bandana head cover with woven basket of cloth fruit, including bananas on head and woven stand, 15" tall, PLUS 14th a carved wooden figure of a man with his small dog, marked on base Made In Ecuador, carved from single piece of wood and stained, 7.75" tall, PLUS 15th and 16th a pair of Eraser Dolls, with wood painted heads, pie-shaped white eraser with printed paper clothing, both marked on back Pat. "D" Made In Japan, 2.5" tall, PLUS 17th and 18th pair of hard plastic single piece dolls in traditional cloth outfit of Chinese couple, marked on foot Made In Western Germany, 3" and 3.35" tall, PLUS 19th and 20th a pair of Belgian molded and painted cloth child dolls boy and girl still in original cello wrappers him with brown wig and her with blonde, each with original printed paper tag reading Biege Puppchen Ermey Liliput, 3.8" and 4" tall, PLUS 21st an all cloth Japanese Geisha doll, still in original cello wrapper, made as an ornament to hang with yarn hanger, 3" tall less hanger, PLUS 22nd a comic carved nut head that looks like a monkey with straw whiskers and woven broad brimmed sombrero type hat, mounted on stick, likely made to decorate food or drink, Central American or Mexican, ca 8" long, PLUS 23rd through 28th various versions of Jamaican fruit seller, cloth and woven baskets or hats, ca 1920s-50s with painted facial features, brass earrings, one with elaborated basket of fruit on head in which all the fruit are real seeds painted to resemble fruit, from 8" to 10.5" tall, AND 29th a cloth lady doll with embroidered face, black yarn hair, dress decorated with glass beads and cello sequins, from unknown origin, 4.25" high. Condition: 1st through 13th VG to EXC; 14th chip on brim of hat, else VG; 15th through 29th VG to EXC.
this lot is an around the world tour in dolls. It includes 1st and 2nd a pair of corn husk dolls each with pack on their backs of wood, painted in red and blue dyes and marked Made in Mexico, 9" and 9.5" tall, PLUS 3rd and 4th a pair of Haitian cloth dolls, stuffed with straw, embroidered faces and wool yarn hair, woven split cane hats and shoes, 12" tall, PLUS 5th a printed feed sack-type American Aunt Jemima doll, stuffed with wood shavings, 7.5" tall, PLUS 6th and 7th a pair of Central American woven palm dolls, lady and man each carrying two large pineapples stained in red, purple, green and natural palm, with wood base, hers under floor length woven skirt, and him in woven hat, 9" tall, PLUS 8th a woven palm and inked Bali Dancer with elaborated headdress, stamped Bali on back, 12.5" tall, PLUS 9th a molded and painted resin and wood doll of an Ecuadorian Indian pan pipe player in woven cotton traditional outfit with green wool felt hat on wood base marked Industrias Akios Akios Industries Native Handicraft Hand Made in Ecuador Quito POB 219 and dated 1968, 9" tall, PLUS 10th and 11th a pair of Greek cloth dolls, soldier and lady, both with molded and painted features, wool hair and very elaborate traditional costumes with much gold brocade embroidery, she is 9.5" and he is 11" tall, PLUS 11th a carved and painted wooden doll marked on wooden base Made In Lebanon of an Arab man in traditional cloth outfit and carrying a wooden water jug, 9.25" tall, PLUS 12th a cloth doll from Brazil, lady with very well done embroidered and molded face, black cloth hair in pony tails, red bandana, beaded earrings and necklace and sequined blouse and skirt, 9.5" tall, PLUS 13th an all cloth doll of a female fruit seller, likely Haitian with embroidered face, grass hair under bandana head cover with woven basket of cloth fruit, including bananas on head and woven stand, 15" tall, PLUS 14th a carved wooden figure of a man with his small dog, marked on base Made In Ecuador, carved from single piece of wood and stained, 7.75" tall, PLUS 15th and 16th a pair of Eraser Dolls, with wood painted heads, pie-shaped white eraser with printed paper clothing, both marked on back Pat. "D" Made In Japan, 2.5" tall, PLUS 17th and 18th pair of hard plastic single piece dolls in traditional cloth outfit of Chinese couple, marked on foot Made In Western Germany, 3" and 3.35" tall, PLUS 19th and 20th a pair of Belgian molded and painted cloth child dolls boy and girl still in original cello wrappers him with brown wig and her with blonde, each with original printed paper tag reading Biege Puppchen Ermey Liliput, 3.8" and 4" tall, PLUS 21st an all cloth Japanese Geisha doll, still in original cello wrapper, made as an ornament to hang with yarn hanger, 3" tall less hanger, PLUS 22nd a comic carved nut head that looks like a monkey with straw whiskers and woven broad brimmed sombrero type hat, mounted on stick, likely made to decorate food or drink, Central American or Mexican, ca 8" long, PLUS 23rd through 28th various versions of Jamaican fruit seller, cloth and woven baskets or hats, ca 1920s-50s with painted facial features, brass earrings, one with elaborated basket of fruit on head in which all the fruit are real seeds painted to resemble fruit, from 8" to 10.5" tall, AND 29th a cloth lady doll with embroidered face, black yarn hair, dress decorated with glass beads and cello sequins, from unknown origin, 4.25" high. Condition: 1st through 13th VG to EXC; 14th chip on brim of hat, else VG; 15th through 29th VG to EXC.
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