Name: Snow White
Made by and When: Ideal Toy Corporation, 1938
Material: Composition with jointed neck, upper arms at shoulder socket, and upper legs at the hip socket; the legs are straight.
Marks: Unmarked
Height: 16-1/2 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Ear-length sculpted black hair with front center part and a sculpted red bow in the front center, brown painted eyes glance to the doll’s right side, smiling mouth with red lips and painted upper teeth
Clothes: Redressed in a modern Ideal Shirley Temple “Little Princess” white satin dress that has gold lamé embellishments on the bodice and puffed sleeves, white faux fur cape, white tights, and white Mary-Jane-style shoes
Other: The same Black version of Ideal’s Snow White doll is documented in Black Dolls Book II an Identification and Value Guide by Myla Perkins (Collector Books, 1995).
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