Su*****an
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Description
18" (46 cm.) All-cloth doll with flat dimensional face, shaded light brown painted hair with ringlet curls, stitched-on pink cap with ruffled edging, outlined painted facial features, blue eyes, accented nostrils, tiny closed mouth, muslin stitch-jointed body. Condition: generally excellent, tear in apron. Comments: made by members of the Ladies Sewing Society of the Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania as a fund-raiser in their charity work, the charity work is dedicated to Polly Heckewelder, daughter of the early Moravian missionary. The doll was made from 1872 onward; this example being circa 1920. Value Points: sought-after charity doll, wearing original pink checkered cotton dress, pinafore, undergarments and woven bonnet over attached stitched bonnet. Also included is simple cloth doll with lithographed face, and two early miniature Peter Rabbit books.