#117

Pair,American Composition "Patsy Tinyette" in White Horse Inn Costumes
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$400
sold
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Description
8"(20 cm.) Each is all-composition with sculpted and painted short brown babyish hair,forelock,and curl painted blue or brown eyes,tiny closed mouth,five-piece composition toddler body. Each is wearing its factory-original Tyrolean style costume and original celluloid pin "White Horse Inn",and each has its original gold heart paper label "This is Patsy Tinyette". Excellent condition. Effanbee,circa 1936,the dolls were released by Effanbee as promotional dolls for the Broadway play,"White Horse Inn"that opened in 1936.