A doll named Jennie, a Jumeau marked E3J in one of trash piles. It contained a dirty doll head and some wooden arm and leg parts. He picked it up and brought it home thinking his budding engineer daughter (me) could do something with it. I took the parts out of the box, cleaned them and used some of my mom's sewing elastic to string the pieces together. No parts were missing or broken. Next day I took the assembled doll in a brown paper bag to the local antique flea market and presented her to some of the doll dealers in hopes they could tell me what she was. Astonished, I felt like the pied piper with dealers following me around offering me thousands of dollars for this mystery doll. I refused the offers and hurried home to tell my parents. My father promptly consulted the yellow pages and found a local doll appraiser whom we went to visit. She said I had a rare little French doll called a Jumeau marked E3J worth thousands of dollars. Needless to say, my doll collecting took off from there. I ended up refreshing her wig, making her a trousseau using fabric from grandma Dot, and naming her Jennie. After researching Jennie Copeland, I realize since she was born in 1879 that the doll must have been hers as a child. I am glad that the little Jumeau did not end up in the trash but instead came home with me to enjoy 100 years later! Jennie Copeland DOLL NEWS * UFDC.ORG 113http://www.UFDC.ORG