#540

Two American Black Cloth Dolls
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$1,100
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Description
19" (48 cm.) and 27". Each is all cloth with embroidered facial features and yarn hair, the man with thick yarn brows, mustache and beard, and the girl of fine broad cotton sateen and having amusing side-glancing eyes. The girl has original stitched-on label of Southern Christian Institute in Mississippi. Generally excellent. The dolls were among those sent to Shirley Temple as a young child in admiration for her films. Circa 1935.