Wooden Dolls

Left to right;  The Pennywood is 29 cm high and she came with a paper clothes pattern for the purchaser to make the clothes.  The second doll was made by R. E. Jeffreys, my uncle, in 1985 as a special request.  It came without a face so I painted the face on.  It is 29 cm high. The third doll is wearing a blue floral dress and bonnet and has a painted pink face and arms.  I brought it in 1985 undressed.  It is 28 cm high and I was told it was made by a lady in New Zealand.   The forth doll on the far right was made by my uncle in 1985 at the same time as the other wooden doll.  She also came without a face so I painted the face.   It is 26.5 cm high.

Mary Lou dolls.
 The doll on left has a cream head, which could have originally been white and is 17 cm from head to feet.   The one on right is 18 cm long from head to feet.  I also have one with a pink head.

 XV An Antique Peg Doll Looking Through A Miniature Rosewood Chest. This blank card has Ward Mason Hill Design 1996, made in New Zealand on the back.

The inscription underneath this picture reads; The wooden, jointed lady doing her wash is from “Baby’s Book of Rhymes and Pictures.”