Stockinette-headed doll
Mrs Banks
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1967
Materials
Stockinette-headed doll, wicker-cane, textiles
Measurements
245 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659743
Summary
A doll with a stockinet head and hands. Moulded and painted facial features. Stuffed cloth body, arms, legs and feet. Wearing a red cotton pinafore with a floral decoration, a cream cotton apron decorated with red and black trim. A cream long-sleeved cotton undergarment which incorporates all-in-one drawers. A torn, striped, cream, yellow and red head scarf decorated with sequins worn over a red headscarf. A round sticky label attached to the latter reads '5 pounds sterling each/ 258'. Also wearing very worn woven wicker cane slippers. A length of red ribbon is tied around her chest.
Makers and roles
Mrs Banks, maker