Fabric doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1960 - circa 1969
Materials
Fabric doll on a metal stand.
Measurements
340 mm (Height); 110 mm (Diameter of stand)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671980
Summary
A doll with a moulded plastic head covered in flesh coloured nylon with painted features and stranded nylon brown fair.Her arms are made of wire covered in wadding and flesh coloured nylon. Her legs are of wood with wadding and flesh coloured nylon. She is wearing a red cotton hat with black and silver zigzag braid, a red polka dotted dress with a beige ribbon decoration over a white cotton underskirt and white ribbon knickers. Her ankle boots are of cream felt with a yellow flower decoration on one of them. The base is of blue metal with a white metal rim and a wooden underside.
Provenance
Owned by the donor Jane Shuker and her sister Mary in the late 1950s and early 1960s and donated to the Museum of Childhood on 10th August 2015.
Marks and inscriptions
On underside of stand: Foreign