Doll-A-Day 2023 #18: Purse Doll

   Some of you may have read my mention of owning a purse doll/doll purse at least once. I know I've mentioned it a couple of times. So today, we're going to look, not at my purse doll, but at one Emma owns. She's this cute girl.

  Emma pulled out a box full of doll stuff she has to sell today, and this girl was in it. She is made very much like my purse doll: felt skirt/purse with back zipper so you can use the purse, and a cotton blouse.

She has a handle. Mine doesn't.

The one difference between Emma's purse doll and mine is, Emma's still has her original head. 

Why does she have a bottle mouth?

   She has a head very much like a lot of little rubber dolls from the 60's. She's very reminiscent of my childhood 'Jungle Legsly', and  a couple of others I have. You can see another one HERE. My purse doll didn't have a head when my cousin gave her to me, so she uses my sister's old Polly head. But not having her head, I was able to see that her 'neck knob', as such, is a wooden peg that also forms her body. I'm guessing this girl is just the same.

  Like mine, this girl can raise her arms. Unlike mine, this girl actually has a tag. She was made in Japan.

  She's about 8 inches tall, but with nothing in her skirt/purse area, she can't stand up. 

  Since my cousin is even older than my sister, who is six years older than I m, I'm thinking this doll purse may have been made in the late 50's at least. On the other hand, who knows where she got the purse doll she gave me. She could have found it somewhere. This type of doll head was more common in the 60's.

  That's the doll for today. Many more to come. I still have to catch up with January before the end of the month, and present you with a doll book at the end of the month. So, we'll see how well I get on to catching up tomorrow. I'm only 6 days behind now!

Doll-A-Day 2019 #317: Mouse...Purse...Girl...

  We've seen some pretty sophisticated ladies in the last few days. Now,as the Monty Python catch phrase goes,for something completely different.

Look at this thing! I found her in Ivy's stuff and I honestly don't remember her at all. I asked Ivy, and she doesn't remember her either. She looks like something that would be sold in Yellow Springs,where my sister likes to hang out and has occasionally worked. It's a very artsy community, as well as having a lot of interesting shops that sell internationally made items. This...mouse? looks like she's made of some kinds of  non-American fabric. I thought maybe my sister gave her to Ivy, but she doesn't remember this girl either.

She,and I call her a 'she' because she's wearing a dress, has long purple whiskers and a sprig of purple hair on top.

I think she's a mouse because she has big mouse teeth and a long, skinny tail.

She also has fingers, but her feet are just shoe shaped.

She has a secret too,which you may have guessed from the title. She has a zipper in her back. Hmm. What could that be for?

She's a purse!

The purse pulls out of her back. When it's not out, it serves as her stuffing.

This is with the purse out,and she is stuffed inside the purse. Without the purse for stuffing she is pretty thin and doesn't take up much space in the purse.

When I found her the purse wasn't stuffed up into her head,which is, admittedly, difficult to do. Her head was 'deflated'. The little black tab you can see at the opening of the purse is a drawstring.

There is one more weird thing about this doll/purse. It's her mouth. It looked to me like the tongue was made of a piece of fabric that wasn't sewn down. Well it's not.

It had to be pulled out,and held down to look like this.

When I let go it did this.

  That's the doll for today. Tomorrow we'll see another of Ivy's dolls.