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Message:: [QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 4330184, member: 13874"][USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER] I appreciate your input, however, the Italian and Spanish dolls you show, blue eyes notwithstanding [I stand corrected; there WERE blue eyes on dolls from these countries], are, as Judy mentions of much higher quality than the OP's example. I doubt that any of the Italian or Spanish dolls had sawdust bodies. It is mostly the sawdust that I "profile" as early makers' preferred stuffing in lower-priced dolls. The higher priced dolls had horsehair or kapoque (sp? a  shaggy fluffy material as used in blankets of the era).Judy's example is much closer to the OP's doll although hair color is different. AJ, I do recognize that dolls of the era to which I refer often looked like the Heinrich example. It has glass eyes, however, and should not be compared with OP's. the Heinrich is of much higher quality. As far as the clothing being replacements I stand by my view that they are of much newer fabrics with modern stitching than a doll from the turn of the 20th century would have originally. Unless the doll is of much later vintage, which I doubt, the clothes are definitely replacements.[/QUOTE]