Plastic doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1970 - circa 1979
Materials
Plastic doll
Measurements
75 mm (width); 83 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663525
Summary
A 1970s plastic pale skinned female doll (doll associated with 1970s doll's house, inventory number 663517). With short nylon brown hair, blue eyes which are looking to the right, pale red lips and brown eyebrows. The doll is wearing a too large white cotton dress, which has a purple/pink/red pattern, with full length sleeves which cover the doll's hands, with a length of red wool tied around her waist at the back. The doll's hands have 1mm metal spike, poking out of the finger tips. Under the dress the doll is wearing discoloured white cotton knickers. The doll has white painted on ankle boots, which is starting to chip off at her toes, with metal wrapping around the heel of the left foot and a small spike, poking out of the right.
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).