Name: Miss Mod
Made by and When: Sharing, c. 1960s-1970s
Material: Vinyl head, hollow hard vinyl bodies
Marks: (On the Heads) SHARING NO. 3001; (on the backs) MADE IN / HONG KONG
Height: 14 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouths: The black-rooted hair is styled in a bubble cut for three of the dolls in this installation; the other doll has long straight rooted-black hair with bangs. Each doll has brown side-glancing eyes with heavy blue eyeshadow. The mouths are closed.
Clothes: Dressed in original mod-inspired fashions with white plastic high-heel shoes as illustrated in the gallery photos
Other: Sold in baggies and made in Hong Kong during the 1960s to 1970s by Sharing, this high-heel fashion doll was also sold under different names. Dressed in a nurse uniform and hat like the doll in the group gallery photo, Dr. Ben Joins the Nurses is another identical renamed doll by Sharing.
Gallery (Photographs and information are courtesy of David Spurgeon.)
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