Two Rare American Cloth Dolls from Dorothy Heizer Doll Kits for Modern Priscilla

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12" (30 cm.) Each is all muslin with egg-shaped head having slightly-defined chin tip achieved by seam line, hand-painted facial features, outlined eyes, dainty brows and lashes, closed mouth, brown yarn hair in side pouf curls, stitch-jointed elongated arms and legs. Condition: good/very good. Comments: Dorothy Heizer created doll kits of her designs, which were distributed through Modern Priscilla magazine; this example appears to be Miss Penelope of which another example is shown in the Strong Museum of Play. According to the magazine "the doll's body is stamped on flesh-color fabric and has only to be sewn up and stuffed. Best of all, the sweet face...is sent to you already delicately painted by hand on the fabric". Value Points: rare early simple designs by the noted American artist, late 1920s, one with original gown, undergarments, and matching bonnet, and the other with original undergarments, hair ornaments, and very frail remains of original costume.