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Description
18" (46 cm.) All-cloth doll with flat dimensional face, shaded brown painted hair with ringlet curls around the face and stitched-on blue cap at back of head with ruffled edging, outlined painted facial features, pale blue eyes, outlined nose with accented nostrils, closed mouth, muslin stitch-jointed body. Condition: generally excellent. 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: very dear face and expression, wearing original blue checkered cotton dress, pinafore, undergarments and woven bonnet over attached stitched bonnet.