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Description
8" (20 cm.) Brunette hair with short curls, real lashes, bendable-knee walking-style body with unique posing of arms and fingers to accentuate the costume role, wearing ivory robe with rhinestone and pearl studded design on front, matching rose satin lined cape with lace and rhinestone edged collar, and silver bead and rhinestone cross at the back cape with two rose stone accents at the cross top, taffeta full slip, panties, white socks, side-snap suede-like shoes, along with elaborate crown heavily encrusted with pearls, rubies, and rhinestones, and a matching orb to be held in the doll's specially formed open palm. Also included is a second gown in somewhat simpler style along with matching crown, and a third ensemble with gown and cape. Near mint condition except some of the boa is a bit fly-away on the third costume. Alexander, 1957, the doll and crown frames were commissioned from the Alexander firm, then fitted with specially shaped arms and hands, reportedly by I. Donnelly, a religious supply company of Kansas City, and, finally, costumed by the Sisters of Mercy in Omaha, Nebraska. Few examples of this doll are known to exist.