#211

Two Early Cloth Mickey Mouse Dolls from the Shirley Temple Collection
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$6,000
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Each is all cloth depicting the beloved cartoon character Mickey Mouse, each with pie-shaped eyes, black tip nose, reddish short pants and oversized orange shoes. Including twill-faced model (some facial water spots) and velvet-bodied example with silk hands in very good condition. Mid-1930s. One of the dolls appears on the top shelf in the photograph Appendix B. According to family oral tradition, the Mickey Mouse dolls, favorites of Shirley Temple, had been gifted to her by Walt Disney.