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Description
13" (33 cm.) All composition with socket head, hazel sleep eyes, impressed dimples, lashes, open mouth with smiling expression, four teeth, mohair blonde ringlet-curled wig, jointing at neck, shoulders and hips. The doll is wearing her original crisp organdy pleated dress with blue polka dots and ruffled collar, trimmed with blue sash, wrist ribbons, and hair bow, one-piece undergarment, socks and shoes, and with celluloid pin. The dress has original cloth label. The doll has been wonderfully preserved, the hair and costume impeccable, the composition with few faintly visible age lines yet with fine lustrous glow. American, Ideal Toy and Novelty, circa 1936. Included with the doll is a photograph of Shirley seated with Morris Michtom, the founder of the Ideal Toy and Novelty Co. which produced the licensed Shirley Temple dolls. The photograph is inscribed by him, "with love and admiration, Morris Michtom".