ome days only passed by and here is that in the other end of the thread a known voice asked me for a meeting for " our story of whistler " (I would need caricaturist's talent to describe you my head at this moment there!)... about two years had passed by since our first interview. The whistler had a little changed: one had it remake its elastics (which were not nevertheless so used and one had stuck on it (if, yes! and in the very powerful glue) natural steep hair as "spaghetti", although in the recollection of the owners, it wore a wig in mohair a little ruffled as well as " Titi Parisien's " cap, which explains the name with which it had been baptized:" Gavroche " ( Street urchin ). Fortunately, it always wore the clothes of origin (!!!). Apparently our "finch" had meanwhile gone round of Paris: from clinic to specialized shop, by way of Flat markets and of the Auction room, the owners had finally calculated their requirements and chose the Museum as ultimate house as their " Gavroche ". It is there henceforth exposed since last April 3. Here is for the circumstances of the adoption of our whistler STEINER. But let us come there now to the description: rare, even exceptional, this whistler STEINER dates the time when the widow Lafosse steered the famous Parisian company, namely from 1892 till 1899. One did not find a patent deposited by the manufacturer for this system but mark in the red inking-pad LE PARISIEN, affixed on the nape of the neck, allows to date exactly this doll with head in pressing biscuit, contemporary of the first babies - character of JUMEAU, the double-face babies BRU and the other " expressive olls of the end of the XIXEME century, as well as STEINER's determinedly realistic models (such the servicemen and the other male subjects). The interest of the specimen presented here resides on one hand, in the state of origin completed (head, bodies and clothes are rigorously authentic, on the other hand in the direct origin of the family which possessed it since about 1OO years..
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