Stockinette-headed doll
Halfpenny Houses
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1986
Materials
Stockinette-headed doll
Measurements
420 mm (height)
Place of origin
Bideford
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 666477
Summary
A stockinette-headed doll with hand painted facial features (circa 1986). She has nylon blonde hair in two bunches, tied with white ribbons. She has a stuffed cloth body, arms, hands, legs and feet. She is wearing a white cotton dress decorated with an orange and green sprig pattern. White ribbons run from the shoulders to the waist, where they are tied into bows. Underneath is a white cotton petticoat with lace at the hem, and white cotton knickers, also trimmed with lace. On her feet are white machine knitted nylon socks and white plastic imitation patent leather shoes with ankle straps. In her right hand she holds a doll which is a miniature version of herself dressed in an identical dress. She has a stuffed cloth head, wool hair and stitched facial features. Her body, arms and legs are possibly from a pipe cleaner around which green and white wool has been wound tightly. Tied around the left wrist of the large doll is a piece of white card detailing the maker and model of doll.
Marks and inscriptions
Label on the back: 'Exclusively distributed by/ The Heirloom Tradition/ Lollipops 2/ dolls designed by Gillian Heal 1985/ Handmade in England by Halfpenny Houses' On the lower back: 'Gillian Heal 1986./ Victoria 31' On one side of the cardboard tag: 'These doll have/ hand-painted features/ and look like/ gentle children./ BIDEFORD N. DEVON made in ENGLAND/ HALFPENNY HOUSES' On the other side of the cardboard tag: 'LOLLiPOPS 2/ Victoria/ GH'
Makers and roles
Halfpenny Houses , maker