Peg doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wooden doll
Measurements
105 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665464
Summary
A wooden doll made from a clothes peg, depicting an old pedlar woman, with painted facial features, grey wool hair, and flesh coloured stiffened jersey material hands. She wears a brown floral print dress, a maroon velvet cape, a cream apron and a black velvet bonnet. She holds a tray laden with wares, which is made of brown leather. A brown leather strap runs around the back of her neck and is joined to each side of the tray.