Baby Doll

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Artist/Maker	Mattel, Inc. (manufacturer)
Place of origin	United States (manufactured)

SEALED IN A HAND MADE BOX MARKED 'DENYS FISHER'
moulded vinyl head with sleeping eyes and blond rooted saran hair
head has been cut in half to reveal mechanism
no body but the various water receptacles have been kept including the hand pump

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Object type	Baby doll
Materials and techniques	moulded vinyl Vinyl Moulded
Brief description	Mattel, USA, 1978
Physical description	SEALED IN A HAND MADE BOX MARKED 'DENYS FISHER' moulded vinyl head with sleeping eyes and blond rooted saran hair head has been cut in half to reveal mechanism no body but the various water receptacles have been kept including the hand pump
Production type	mass produced
Marks and inscriptions	1 August 1979 (letter)
Credit line	Given by the Palitoy Company
Object history	Part of the Palitoy Archive it appears to be a crying and not feeding doll with a pump operated by squeezing the hand *an accompanying letter decribing the components of the head material, from R M Kevern to S F Moore (of Palitoy), dated 1 August 1979
Production	Attribution note: tested sample
Collection	Young V&A Collection
Accession number	B.2378-1999

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Record created	September 18, 2000
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O48499/baby-doll-mattel-inc/

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