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Lot 306
Sale 6427 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts: Featuring Property from Prominent New York and Philadelphia Collectors
Nov 12, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$2,880
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A Sewn and Stitched Cloth and Leather Sea Captain Doll
Probably Early 19th Century
with leather hat and painted face, accompanied by two old hand-written notes in ink, the first inscribed, "In Grand. Weston's family-/ Fletcher - Sawtelle - you can see/ from the costume how old it is / Perhaps a museum would like it some day?", the second inscribed, "very old doll/ in G. Weston's family-/ must be 1790-1820-/ a collector's item."
Height 6 x width 2 /4 inches.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.