Papier mache shoulder-head doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1840
Materials
Papier mache shoulder-head doll
Measurements
320 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659652
Summary
A doll with composition shoulders and head, having moulded facial features. The eyes and hair are painted black. the body arms and legs are hessian stuffed with sawdust or a similar material. The hands which have no fingers are of a coarse pink cotton. The feet wear black cotton and velvet boots. she wears a white cotton apron with lace edging and embroidered strings and a white cotton dress with a long full skirt printed with brown leaves and flowers. Below this is a cotton petticoat, a flannel petticoat, a cotton petticoat and a pair of flannel drawers. With the doll are a length of yellow satin ribbon, two packets of pins removed from the doll's clothing, labelled 'Y84/748' and 'Y84/750', a plastic bottle containing pins 'holding the mane' labelled 'Y84/748' and another similar bottle bearing a label also numbered 'Y84/758', which reads 'bit of wood held by a pin on left side of the mouth'. Total number of items is six