#391

A Family of Patsy Dolls by Effanbee from Shirley Temple's Early Collection
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$4,250
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Description
11" (28 cm.) 22", 25". Each has composition socket head with sleep eyes, button-shaped nose, real lashes, bow-shaped tiny mouth. The largest is "Patsy Ruth" with brunette human hair and original marked Lov'ums body; the next is "Patsy Lou" with soft brunette mohair curls over sculpted bobbed hair, and all-composition body; the marked Patsy Baby has sculpted curls, all composition body, with original costume and presentation basket. Generally excellent, the shoes and socks original on all three, the dresses not original on the two larger, each with Effanbee metal wrist bracelet. Effanbee, circa 1934. These two larger dolls, in different costumes, appeared in various early films and publicity photographs with young Shirley Temple.