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<p>[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 4450222, member: 51"]Thanks for the responses so far! I just scanned comments quickly, going back to read more carefully, will comment more in a few minutes...</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing (which you can't tell from photos), this doll has zero smell even touching my nose right up to her. The family who owned her is Swiss/German and they are obsessively clean. It probably helps we are in a dry climate too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thinking that the doll has been played with for generations, looking at the careful old repair to the arms, etc. This was not a collector's item, but was used as a toy to be played with handed down from grandmother to mother to granddaughter (granddaughter now 80). Of course this has resulted in condition issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I have no expectation for value over about $20 or so. I don't think celluloid (comparing it to jewelry items, etc I've had, but maybe it is!) Does seem to be plastic-like. (Not bisque.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 4450222, member: 51"]Thanks for the responses so far! I just scanned comments quickly, going back to read more carefully, will comment more in a few minutes... One thing (which you can't tell from photos), this doll has zero smell even touching my nose right up to her. The family who owned her is Swiss/German and they are obsessively clean. It probably helps we are in a dry climate too. Thinking that the doll has been played with for generations, looking at the careful old repair to the arms, etc. This was not a collector's item, but was used as a toy to be played with handed down from grandmother to mother to granddaughter (granddaughter now 80). Of course this has resulted in condition issues. That said, I have no expectation for value over about $20 or so. I don't think celluloid (comparing it to jewelry items, etc I've had, but maybe it is!) Does seem to be plastic-like. (Not bisque.)[/QUOTE]
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