Plastic doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1970 - circa 1979
Materials
Plastic doll, nylon hair and fabric
Measurements
54 mm (width); 83 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663523
Summary
A 1970s plastic pale skinned female doll (doll associated with 1970s doll's house, inventory number 663517). She has nylon blonde hair and blue eyes which are looking to the right, pale red lips and brown eyebrows. The doll is wearing a green felt dress, which has a white piece of fabric wrapped around her waist, with a length of red wool tied in a knot at the front keeping it secure. Under the dress the doll is wearing discoloured white cotton knickers. The doll has white painted on ankle boots, which are starting to chip off at her toes.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs Joyce Howard-Monks in 2010. Part of the contents of the ‘Hobbies’ doll’s house – inventory number 663517 - made by the donor’s father, Ronald Graham (b.1902), for his two grandchildren Lynn Pick (b.1964) and Dawn Lawton (b.1966).