DOLL, white, embroidered dress, with receipt and spare part, in box

H2013.639.1-3

[.1] Composite doll, painted pink. Moulded face with blue, sleeping eyes, upper brown lashes and painted eyebrows. Light brown, curly wig, parted in the middle. Open mouth showing two top teeth. Body fully articulated, fingers and toes formed, and fingers painted red for definition. Dressed in short sleeved, white cotton voile dress with embroidered green and blue flowers and blue ribbon trim to neck and bow on bodice, white cotton petticoat and elastic waisted white cotton underpants, cream coloured shoes with pom-pom detail and cotton twine ties at ankles, white ribbed knit socks. Elastoplast patch to back of doll over sound box mechanism. 'Heubach Koppelsdorf/320.2./Germany' is pressed into the nape of the neck[.2, .3] Doll presented in blue and red geometric patterned cardboard box with paper lace edging. One end has a label with numbers written on it and 'Foreign' printed under it. Other numbers are handwritten in blue [.4] Paper receipt for repairs also in box, dated 25-5-95 originally stapled to plastic zip-loc bag containing rubber spare part for articulations of body

Department: 

History Department

Collection

History Collection

Collection Item Data

Accession Number: H2013.639.1-3
Accession Date: 19 Nov 2014
Acquisition Year: 2014
Credit: Mrs Dolly Cetinich

Material

celluloid

Celluloid (cellulose nitrates and camphor), cotton, metal, glass, synthetic hair, plastic, paper, elastic

1 - Part 1
Cotton/Textile
Synthetic/Textile

Measurement

length510mm
width190mm
depth12cm
length560mmBox
width280mmBox
depth16cmwith lid
length220mmreceipt
width114mm

 


 

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