$1,700
Sold
sold
Click image to enlarge
Description
10" (25 cm.) Of painted bisque, with blue glass sleep eyes, mohair lashes, open mouth, two upper teeth, blonde mohair bobbed wig, five-piece composition body, marked Heubach-Koppelsdorf 342.14/0 Germany, the doll is wearing her original traditional costume of Germany including apron and cap with matching lace trim. Generally excellent, unplayed with. Germany, Heubach Koppelsdorf, circa 1930. Included is a photograph of young Shirley Temple holding the doll. In her 1945 memoir, My Young Life, Shirley Temple wrote of the dolls that were given to her including that from "our housekeeper Katie [who] gave me three beautiful German dolls dressed in national costume, from some of her relatives". This doll may be one of those three; also see #383, 388, and 389 of this book. The doll is also shown in a photograph of her collection shown in Appendix A.