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18" (46 cm.) All-cloth doll with stiff pressed and painted facial features, shaded brown downcast eyes, thick black upper eyeliner, brown eye shadow, white eye dots, accented nostrils and eye corners, closed mouth with pouting expression, brunette human hair wig with little forelock curl and side curls, stitch-jointed shoulders, loosely hinged legs, marked "Kathe Kruse 3853 Made in Germany". Generally excellent. Germany, Kathe Kruse, mid-1930s. The doll, named "Marcia Field" by Shirley Temple, in homage to it's aquisition at Marhsall Fields in Chicago, was photographed in numerous appearances with the young actress in her 1938 tour across America; in one instance she is shown "introducing" her doll to A.G. Saalfield, owner of Saalfield Publishing who produced her numerous paper doll and story books. The doll was wearing her original Kruse costume during that trip, but was later re-dressed by young Shirley in this white pique dress with sky-blue felt appliques including a little sailboat. This costume appears to have been studio made as a match to Shirley's sailboat dress.