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Description
22" (56 cm.) All-cloth doll with head,hands and feet made of leatherette,pressed and oil-
painted facial features,defined eye sockets with outlined blue eyes,painted lashes and real
lashes,feathered brows,accented nostrils,closed mouth with full outlined lips,blushed
cheeks,defined ears,brunette human hair in bobbed fashion,stitch-jointed limbs,individual
finger,toes and thumbs with wire framework for flexibility,wearing green linen romper dress
with smocking,hair ribbon,bloomers,and carrying shoes. Condition: generally excellent.
Marks: Webb̴s Patent No 104075 1916. (paper label on neck). Comments: Florence Webb of
England registered her patent design in 1916 for a doll head,hands and feet made of "mock
kid leather",with head molded over a buckram form and stuffed with cotton wool. Value
Points: very rare doll with most appealing expression and artistic details; the doll has a pencil
written note "my name is Ginger,born in 1918,and on the backside is lettered "Miss Dora
Webb R.M.S.,106 Burton Rd,Melton Mowbray".