Character doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Composition-headed doll
Measurements
310 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665393
Summary
An old lady character doll with composition face, hands and feet and a fabric body. The doll has painted facial details with an open mouth showing bottom teeth and is wearing glasses. Grey mohair hair is covered with a net cap and green silk poke bonnet. The doll is wearing a beige cotton sateen with a long sleeved bodice and skirt. The doll is wearing a white cotton necktie over which is worn a green/grey silk triangular scarf which is in tatters. The same coloured ribbon is also around the doll's waist. The doll is wearing fine knitted socks, a cotton petticoat, and a flannel petticoat with a cotton basque. She is also wearing a white muslin petticoat and white cotton drawers.
Provenance
Loaned to the Museum of Childhood by the Betty Cadbury Trust Sudbury in December 1983.