Early African American Cloth Doll
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Early African American Cloth Doll
$110.00
Details of this charming one-of-a-kind black cloth doll include construction from black cotton sateen, sweetly stitched features that include golden brown eyes, smiling red lips and a nose provided by simple needle sculpting. (Small hole to upper left side of nose.)
This dapper young man wears a nicely tailored two-piece nautical style costume rendered in indigo blue wool, over a red cotton shirt with an anchor pattern and a sailor collar. A tweed cap is worn over his black woolen hair (losses to wool throughout costume). Sewn-on ochre cotton stockings are worn under brown leather boots.
Measures: 15” tall
$110.00
EARLY-1226