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1930s JAPANESE PAPIER MACHE DOLLHOUSE DOLLS

japanset.jpg (25446 bytes)SIZE: Largest Doll is 7".

MARKS: none.

DATE OF PRODUCTION:  circa 1937

CHARACTERISTICS OF DOLL:  Dolls have papier mache heads and limbs, costume-wrapped bodies.  Dolls are in their original boxes and have wooden stands.  

PRICE:  For set, at auction, $425.

COMMENTS:  Dolls were dressed by women employed by the Aisejkwan Settlement of Jotoku, Tokyo, according to a printed price list that came with the dolls.  Other documents included with the dolls indicating that these dolls represent the Takenaka Family, that dolls could be specially commissioned, and also that the dolls were purchased at the mission in 1937.

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