Doll
ca. 1968 (made)
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This doll named Mariah has been dressed in the image of her owner, a young Lucy Lloyd.
Lucy, along with her sister Eleanor who were in the Guides and Brownies respectively, hand sewed outfits for their dolls to look like them in their uniforms. This outfit has a great attention to detail, with hand embroidered skill badges including the hostess and the first aid badge that Lucy herself had attained. as well as belonging to the same guiding pack, the 3rd Welwyn Garden City Guides.
The doll itself is a walking and talking doll from the 1960s and is made of a hard and rigid plastic. As the doll's legs are moved in a walking motion the doll's head and her eyes move from left to right and, at the time she would have spoken via the sound box embedded in the body of the doll..
Lucy, along with her sister Eleanor who were in the Guides and Brownies respectively, hand sewed outfits for their dolls to look like them in their uniforms. This outfit has a great attention to detail, with hand embroidered skill badges including the hostess and the first aid badge that Lucy herself had attained. as well as belonging to the same guiding pack, the 3rd Welwyn Garden City Guides.
The doll itself is a walking and talking doll from the 1960s and is made of a hard and rigid plastic. As the doll's legs are moved in a walking motion the doll's head and her eyes move from left to right and, at the time she would have spoken via the sound box embedded in the body of the doll..
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 11 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | mouled plastic, hand stiched fabric, knitted wool |
| Brief description | hard plastic doll dressed as a Girl Guide in home made outfit.Doll has walking and talking mechanism, possibly made by Pedigree, England, 1960s |
| Physical description | Hard plastic doll with fair coloured skin, long brown plaited hair, blinking blue eyes and pink lips with 2 exposed teeth. The doll has a talking box inserted in to her back with a circular facure with perforated holes. The doll is articulated where the leg and arm joints join with the body of the doll. As the doll's legs are moved the head moves from, side to side. The doll is dressed in a homemade outfit depicting a Girl Guide including a shirt with embroidered badges, skirt, shoes and socks, wool vest and gingham knickers and a hat. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Marks and inscriptions | made in England |
| Credit line | Given by Eleanor Lloyd (Dhiraprabha) |
| Object history | This doll was owned and the clothes hand made by Lucy Lloyd, sister of the donor, when she was a young girl in the 1960s and 1970s. Her and her sister were active members of the Brownies and the Guides and both hand stitched these outfits that mirror their own respective Brownie and Guide uniforms. The shoes were particularly designed by Eleanor and her sister to have an elasticated back so they could be slipped on and off the doll with ease. The Guide outfit she has made for her doll corresponds with the same one she had-the doll belongs to the same pack, the 3rd Welwyn Garden City Guides as Lucy; the doll which she named Mariah, has achieved the same skills badges as her owner, such as tea making and first aid. |
| Production | Attribution note: doll is mass produed, costume is homemade |
| Summary | This doll named Mariah has been dressed in the image of her owner, a young Lucy Lloyd. Lucy, along with her sister Eleanor who were in the Guides and Brownies respectively, hand sewed outfits for their dolls to look like them in their uniforms. This outfit has a great attention to detail, with hand embroidered skill badges including the hostess and the first aid badge that Lucy herself had attained. as well as belonging to the same guiding pack, the 3rd Welwyn Garden City Guides. The doll itself is a walking and talking doll from the 1960s and is made of a hard and rigid plastic. As the doll's legs are moved in a walking motion the doll's head and her eyes move from left to right and, at the time she would have spoken via the sound box embedded in the body of the doll.. |
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| Accession number | B.13:1 to 11-2010 |
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| Record created | August 5, 2010 |
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