Wax-over Paper Mache coating. Dress partially sewn on. Cloth body with compo legs and arms. Wig may be a replacement. Blonde long hair with cut bangs. Face has drawn grey eyes with detail. Painted eyebrows. Red lips and red tip of nostril. Head back is bumpy with glue residue and a dark pink. Head goes to the breast bone. Hands slightly cupped and arm is solid with a slight seam on the sides. Legs are attached at the knee. Black boots painted on with red trim at the curved top and five red dot buttons on the outer edge. Socks are light grey with a red band just below the top.
Made originally for the middle class and readily accessible.
Clothing is all original and attached to the doll.
Dress is a tanish brown with a sleeveless jacket that comes together in the middle with no closures. 3/4" cotton scalloped beige lace surrounding all outer seams. Hand stitching. Top is dark rosy pink silk that curves up at the neck with a very narrow lace edging. Pleated on the sides at the waist band that is 3/4" wide with a vertical seam in the middle. Back seam without closures.
Skirt is gathered at the waist and detached without an upper finishing. 3/8" hem is hand sewn with a running stitch. There is a decorative band using the reddish silk fabric 1" from the hem in the front 12" across. Top has uneven waves, especially on the left side that is 2" deep. Fabric is extremely deteriorated. All hand sewn with a running stitch.
Petticoat is of off white cotton fabric. Gathered at the waist with a channel and twill tape tied in the back in a bow. Machine stitched. 3 1/2" down is a 5/8' pleat that is hand sewn. The bottom hem is 3 1/4" from the top of the pleat and has a double stitched edge with an extremely short stitch length that attaches 1 1/2" lace that has a U pattern. Back seam hand sewn.
Pantaloons are sewn to the doll with an unfinished gathered top edge. Matching lace at the hem goes below the knee.
They take a paper mache head and dip in wax to look like an expensive pure wax doll.
