Costume doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1950 - circa 1976
Materials
Plastic doll
Measurements
120 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 658918
Summary
A mid-20th century female national costume doll (also known as souvenir, world costume, tourist and foreign travel dolls), held on a black plastic base by a spring. With moulded and painted facial features and brown artificial hair in plaits. The doll wears a brown headscarf, a white nylon blouse with brown braid and lace edges on the cuffs, a black bodice with brown and gold belt and collar, a black skirt with bands of coloured braid and lace edging, white knitted stockings, and black plastic shoes. She carries a stick with cotton-wool wound round one end.
Provenance
One doll from a collection of costume dolls donated by Mr R.T. Macfarlane in 1976.