15à (38 cm.) All cloth doll with sculpted and oil-painted facial features to depict the young future Queen of England, brown hair arranged in wedding coiffure, all cloth body with padded armature frame, stitched and separated fingers with painted nails. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: portrait doll of Princess Elizabeth in her wedding gown by the charter NIADA member, Dorothy Heizer, circa 1948, on special commission for Mary E. Lewis, author of the doll book, "Of Diamonds and Dolls", and later acquired by Mrs. Samuel Yellin of Philadelphia from whose collection it is being sold today. Value Points: considered by the artist "one of her best pieces of work" (letter from son in 1949), the doll is wearing an exact copy of the historic wedding dress, of ivory satin embellished with 44,000 seed pearls and brilliants, with pearl necklace having the same number of beads as the one won by the Princess, with exact paste replicas of the diamond tiara and royal engagement ring and wedding band, and with undergarments, shoes, blue garters, and bouquet of hand-tinted white suede to simulate the four types of orchids held by the Princess'.