AMERICAN PAPIER-MACHE AND CLOTH MATURE LADY DOLL, socket head with a round-form face in a rough appearance, paint decorated facial features and molded sharp nose, lightly molded brown bobbed-style hair with bangs, neck connection is a brass socket connector, cotton cloth body. Vintage attire of a blue print skirt and red print blouse, leather belt, and linen undergarments. Displayed in an Adirondack chair with green paint. Circa 1920. 18 1/2" HOA.
Published: Lakin - Folk Art For Children: Handmade in America 1760-1940, p. 144 and 145, F2.132.
Provenance: The Eleanor V. Lakin Collection, Boonsboro, MD.
Discovered in Maryland.

Good overall condition, expected wear, head with several scattered separations and some flakes to nose tip. Clothing with expected wear, undergarments with some discoloration and staining.