A rare early 20th century American ‘Maggie Bessie’ painted cloth doll. with oil-painted cloth head, shoulders and forearms, finely painted blue eyes, delicately painted features and blonde centre-parted hair, stuffed body with hinge joints at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, stitched fingers and separate thumb, stitched toes, white cotton petticoat and drawers, blue knitted socks and brown leather slippers —16 ¾in. (42.5cm.) high (hole to chin and paint aged, some moth damage to socks and slippers) - created by Bessie and Maggie Pfohl in their Moravian community of Salem, North Carolina in the early 1900s, it is believed they only made 140 of these dolls