#517

Three Historical Dolls from Shirley Temple's Trip to Boston, 1938
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$850
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Description
13" (33 cm.) and 19" Including composition-head boudoir doll with painted features, blonde mohair wig, cloth long-limbed stitch-jointed body, composition hands, wearing original costume of pink gown with muslin apron and cap, the apron embroidered "Mayflower 1620"; and a pair of all-cloth dolls with pressed and painted features, stitch-jointed bodies, mohair wigs, original costumes representing John and Priscilla Alden. Generally excellent. The dolls were acquired by Shirley Temple during her cross-country trip from Los Angeles to Boston in 1938.