This is French made black doll with replacement brown mohair wig, fixed brown eyes, red lips, close mouth, part jointed body. She has new clothing in traditional style made from vintage materials.
The doll is marked to the back of the head :-
'S.E.B.J. Paris'
~ Dimensions ~
The doll is 8 inches (20cm) tall by approximately 2.5 inches (6.5cm) wide.
~ Condition ~
The condition is very decent with a 2cm chip to the left upper leg.
~ SFBJ Dolls ~
SFBJ (Société Française de Fabrication de Bébés et Jouets; also referred to as S.F.B.J.) was the last of the great French dollmaking companies. Formed at the nadir of French dollmaking at the end of the 19th Century, SFBJ made dolls until the early 1960s. Quality of the dolls varied greatly, from exquisite character dolls in the early 1900s, to souvenier dolls of painted bisque, composition and plastic in the mid 20th Century. In the very early 1900s, SFBJ kept the Jumeau name alive for dolls; besides these early "Jumeau" dolls, SFBJ is best known for Bluette, character dolls, and their early dolls such as Eden Bebe.
