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Help wanted IDing recently obtained doll

I've been collecting porcelain dolls not super religiously for the last couple years, all of them have ended up fairly modern. This one I think might be the oldest so far in my collection that isn't a family heirloom, and I'd like to try and date it to be sure.

She has glass sleep eyes, one of them is slightly broken. Her hair doesn't feel like the typical synthetic wigs you find on dolls from the 1980s onward, but also doesn't feel much like the human hair wig on my 1800s doll.

I couldn't remove enough of her clothing to see if she had a maker's mark below her head, the clothing is sewed tightly enough to her body that I think it was sewed on it rather than put on the doll after it was sewed and I'm anxious about taking a seam ripper to it.

She's stuffed with some kind of thread/fibrous material and stuffed quite stiffly, her hair isn't really glued in place the way most wig dolls tend to be and it lifts up to reveal a bunch of thread inside her head.

There is an inscription in ballpoint pen on part of her fabric, though it doesn't feel like something a manufacturer would have added, so a picture of it isn't included. She came with a bodice that I removed in an attempt to find her maker's stamp, I can include a picture of it if people think that would be helpful for ID.

Anything anyone can tell me is very appreciated!

u/FormallyVast — 11 days ago