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Description
18" (46 cm.) The all-cloth doll has firmly stuffed head with flat-dimensional face, elongated throat, oil-painted complexion and brown center-parted hair in tight brush strokes to the head, painted blue eyes with defined eye sockets, nostrils and closed mouth, muslin body with stitch jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips and knees, oil-painted lower limbs, early cotton costume. Generally excellent . The doll was created by Bessie and Maggie Pfohl in their Moravian community of Salem, North Carolina; the sisters created their dolls from about 1900 until after 1940. The path to the placement of this doll in the Shirley Temple collection of dolls is unknown; one clue may lie in her father's Pennsylvania-German heritage, or simply, it may be a superb example of one of the innumerable gifts she received from admirers over the nation and world.