doll (pastimes: toys)

Small Victorian female doll with china hands, feet and glazed china head with black hair and facial features, rouged cheeks and a red mouth. The doll is dressed in a long purple dress with a white over-blouse and apron, petticoats and long white drawers. She also wears a blue sash over the shoulders that fastens with a bow at the back of the waist. There is a tin foil disc attached to the sash.

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