Plastic doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plastic doll.
Measurements
Doll - 160 mm (height), Doll with dress - 440 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660905
Summary
A flesh coloured plastic doll dressed in pink and green taffeta. It has inset blue eyes which open and close. The facial features are moulded and painted. She has blonde, short, nylon hair. The arms are bent and rotate at the shoulders. The legs are straight and shoe-less. She is wearing home-made clothes of a long taffeta dress which has a pink bodice, pink under skirt and a green over skirt. The green skirt is open and shaped at the front with a scalloped edge. The pink skirt is sewn together across the bottom. Her bonnet, made of the same material, is green with pink lining and decorated with a pink ribbon. She has a pink taffeta draw-string bag on one arm.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr and Mrs R. Dyson in May 1976.