Pair, Carved Wooden Dolls Owned by Shirley Temple as a Child

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11" (28 cm.) Each is all carved wood with natural finish and painted facial features, egg-shaped head, wooden block torso and limbs, matching costumes; the girl with blonde yarn hair and painted blue eyes, and the boy with brown yarn hair and brown eyes. The dolls appear in many photographs of Shirley Temple's childhood bedroom, and were obvious favorites. Circa 1930s.