This most regal lady is a 12 inch tall fashion figurine from Galluba and Hofmann. She has a bisque shoulderhead and limbs on a cloth body and stands on her original bisque base. Elaborately dressed in antique materials as Medieval nobility, under the base is written in faint purple ink "Allies Bazaar 1917.” Some talented seamstress near the end of WWI took a German-made fashion doll and lavishly redressed her as an ancient queen to raise money for the Allied cause. This elegant and exquisite lady is incised on the back of her shoulders “5842 Germany.”
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