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Description
21" (53 cm.) All-cloth doll with pressed molded face and features,painted complexion and
features,shaded blue eyes,thick dark upper eyeliner,painted lashes,feathered brows,closed
mouth with row of painted teeth,brunette human hair wig stitched on original muslin cap,muslin
stitch-jointed body with oil-painted lower arms and legs,bare feet,antique
dress,pinafore,undergarments. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: (Rollinson red stamp on
back torso). Comments: Gertrude Rollinson,inventor and patent holder of the distinctive cloth
doll,produced by the Utley company of Holyoke,Massachusetts,circa 1920. Value Points: very
artistic painting of the rare doll,few examples exist and virtually none in this fine state of
preservation.