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Kewpie Sterling Silver Baby Shirt Pin c 1900-1930

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 300.00 USD
Kewpie Sterling Silver Baby Shirt Pin c 1900-1930
Featured in this lot is this Kewpie sterling silver baby shirt / hat pin circa 1900-1930. The shirt pin features a wonderfully and professionally crafted sterling silver construction that shows a stout pin with a sterling silver standing baby for its adornment. The Kewpie dolls were initially made out of bisque exclusively, but composition versions were introduced in the 1920s, and celluloid versions were manufactured in the following decades. In 1949, Effanbee created the first hard plastic versions of the dolls, and soft rubber and vinyl versions were produced by Cameo Co. The condition of this shirt pin is good with no obvious signs of damage and shows good overall condition. The measurements of this pin is 2 1/4" x 3/8" x 3/8". The collective weight of this shirt pin is 4.9g.