Doll wearing blue dress with elbow length sleeves with thick white cuffs. Also wearing a red and white vertically striped apron. A black woollen head and neck scarf. She has a fish attached by a piece of string to her left hand and a ball in a sting net to her right hand. Around her body she has a strap which carries a basket of fish on her back. Attached label read Newhaven fishwife, Scotland.
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