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Description
19" (48 cm.) including ears. Of cotton fabric with linen-like cream face fabric, black head, nose tip and body, felt eyes and ears, flat-stitched cotton tail, black embroidered mouth and eye accents, loose whiskers, ivory sateen four-digit gloves, sewn-on brown corduroy shoes with stiff-bottom feet covered in the same linen as the face, wearing red cotton shorts with four large pearl buttons. Condition: near mint. Comments: Charlotte Clark, the American seamstress, designed and created the Mickey Mouse doll under approval by Walt Disney, originally only made for his gift-giving and soon thereafter, sold through exclusive Los Angeles area stores; eventually a pattern was created by McCall's. This particular example is indubitably the Charlotte Clark design and likely her own studio production, early 1930s. Value Points: very rare figure in superb condition, being sold by the original owner.