16.5" Rare ERICH KLOTZER Cloth Doll c1927 All-Original

Extremely rare and very sweet, this Erich Klotzer boy is in excellent to near-mint all-original condition. The papier-mache head cloth doll is circa 1927, when Klotzer advertised "Art heads painted in oil", which he designed himself; there is no repainting. Very faintly molded at the back neck is EK (in triangle), the Klotzer trademark. Greatly resembling the favored Kathe Kruse Doll I, this dear boy has short feathered brows arching over gentle blue-grey eyes, round rosy cheeks, serious closed mouth and a button nose. His painted ochre-brown hair is wispy on the forehead and over his molded ears. The firmly natural-fibre-stuffed cloth body has a swivel neck, ball-jointed shoulders, and disc joints at the hips. Mitt hands have stitched fingers and separately stitched thumbs; toes are also stitched. He has adorable knobby knees (like Kathe Kruse Doll I), and there are no seam splits or patches (tiny brown freckling/age-spots on body and limbs). The extraordinary original hand-made outfit is navy-blue wool colorfully hand-embroidered with braid at neck and sleeve cuffs, plus cotton knit socks with red & blue stripes and black oilcloth ankle-tie shoes. Please see: "German Doll Encyclopedia" by the Ceislik family pg159-160 (original advertisement). What a find!!!

$2,995.00