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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Firemandk, post: 1658564, member: 7258&quot;][USER=201]@Pat P[/USER] The secret to her actual age may lie in what she is stuffed with ..... Cotton? Old Fabric? Paper? Cardboard ?&nbsp; Horse hair ? Not suggesting you cut her in any way shape or form, just might give you a clue.&nbsp; The &quot;War Paint&quot; sure makes her look like a child played with her . My 84 year old Mom has a lot of her dolls from when she was a child , and some are in incredible shape , BUT , with that said , she also used to work at the YWCA resale shop in the 70&#039;s, so a lot came home with her ...... Your doll sure has a late teens / early 20&#039;s look to me , just because she looks newer doesn&#039;t mean she is ....&nbsp; possibly&nbsp; she was so special she did not get played with much.... There are a lot of 1920&#039;s toys that look&nbsp; so good your would swear they were from 1965 like my Tonka Toy Fire engines ... I was one of those&nbsp; kids that waxed my toys....especially the fire engines ... little did I know I would spend 20 plus years waxing the real deal......lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a sit on train ( I am staring up at it now ) in my loft , I traded&nbsp; an old air compressor for it with the baggage car . It belonged to a doctor from North Carolina who was a kid during the 20&#039;s&nbsp; , from a very well to do family . His son was a surfer here who just had no appreciation for his old dad&#039;s toy train and I was more than happy to take it off his hands..... on a scale of 1-10, it&#039;s an 8 ...played with , but kept indoors and well taken care of .......</p><p><br /></p><p>There used to be a tiny folk art looking doll in a case in the Santa Cruz Library... never paid much attention to it till one day I looked at the description card... it came over the Sierra Nevada Mountains with a little girl who was a member of the Donner Party and lived to tell about it , settling in Santa Cruz.&nbsp; Far more valuable to me in my mind than the finest German Porcelain doll ........[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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