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Object Name: Doll
Date Made: 1930s
1930s
Description: A rag doll. The doll is dressed in a yellow/blue floral printed cotton top, with a pair of blue/white spotted cotton trousers. The face is a moulded, pre -formed one, with features printed on. Such doll's faces were mass produced for home doll -making and similar crafts. The doll wears a pair of bootees crocheted in navy and blue, with blue wool used for ties at the waist and around the neck edge of the blue spotted cotton bonnet. A small tuft of blonde hair is just peeking out from the front of the lilac silk bonnet lining.
Materials: cotton : wool
Catalogue Number: HOYFM.332.1969
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