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Description
22" (56 cm.) Composition socket head, painted complexion and facial features, artistically painted green eyes with defined spiral threading, closed mouth with pronounced lips, platinum blonde human hair in flip curls, original rare early all-cloth body with stitched detail of elbows and knees, separate thumbs. The doll is wearing a distinctive dress of fine organdy with blue rick-rack trim on the three tiers of ruffles, and with applique paper bouquets of flowers. Generally excellent. The dress is labeled "Roz of California". The doll is one of the earliest models of the Monica doll firm of Los Angeles, circa 1938, and appears as a centerpiece doll in an early photograph of Shirley Temple's doll collection, shown here.