Misses #486 and #487 are sisters, still clad in their similar, but not identical, original silk dresses. Big sister is 5.5 inches high, while her bookish little sister is 4.75 inches tall. They both also have their original mohair wigs. While the outfits are unfortunately frail and frayed, they still show how the maker, Galluba and Hofmann, dressed its fashionable ladies in the elegant gowns of real silk and lace. Underneath the tattered finery are molded undergarments, and at one point this pretty pair must have been mounted on a bisque bases, or perhaps boxes or pincushions. The larger lady is marked with a "400" number on the back of her supporting pedestal.
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