Celluloid doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Celluloid doll and yarn
Measurements
125 mm (height)
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660911
Summary
A celuloid doll with moveable arms. The face is moulded and painted with blue eyes, brown lashes and brows and short blonde hair. The clothes, crocheted in lavender yarn, consist of a hat with a pom-pom and a wide belt from which four more pom-poms hang. Another pom-pom is held between her hands. The doll itself is lightly dented.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr and Mrs R. Dyson in May 1976.