A child's doll used in the 1920s.A celluloid doll - a baby doll, with painted blue eyes and red lips and wearing an embroidered calico dress which is soiled. Its joints are held together by string. doll baby-doll celluloid-doll

When celluloid was invented and first came to prominence in the 1870s, dolls were nearly all breakable and fragile--bisque and china dolls were easily shattered and papier mache and wax easily ruined. So doll companies started experimenting with celluloid to mould dolls. By the early 1900s, celluloid dolls were plentiful, since celluloid was easily moulded and generally inexpensive. Celluloid is one of the first synthetic plastics. It is a plastic created from wood products that includes cellulose nitrate and camphor. However Celluloid is flammable and deteriorates easily if exposed to moisture, and can be prone to cracking and yellowing with certain formulations. Celluloid dolls were produced as late as the 1950s, but the vast majority were produced from 1900 through the 1940s. This doll is dressed in baby clothes.A celluloid doll dressed in baby clothes.celluloid, dolls, cotton, moorabbin, ormond, cheltenham, clothing

Donated by Margaret ScarlettSee Supplementary fileCelluloid doll - sleeping doll. Moulded in two sections. Jointed at head, arms and legs. Blue eyes, painted lips and cheeks. Dressed in maroon knitted dress with cream waist cord with 1 pom pom. Cream knitted hat and cream panties.|On Back of doll an inscription reads' Bonnie Baby' in script and 'M' logo of Moldex LtdBonnie Baby 'M'toys, dolls

Given to Pat Finlayson's grandchildren by a friend - doll at least 60yrs old Celluloid Doll 21" tall dressed in nappy, pink bonnet, knitted wool dress, cotton dressdoll,celluloid, toy, baby clothes

A celluloid female baby doll, wearing a pink babies knitted dress with buttons on the back and a pink ribbon around the waist. It has knitted underpants and white knitted booties. leisure object, toys, dolls

1939 Celluloid Baby Doll given to Dorothy Cunnington by her parents, who lived in Kooyong Road Caulfield.1939 Celluloid Baby Doll, dressed in towelling nappy and Viyella underpants and singlet. White cotton dress and matching bonnet.Bonny Baby Made in Japantheatre (use performing arts), toys, dolls