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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 2531057, member: 13874&quot;][USER=965]@judy[/USER] et al: Thank you for remembering me, guys and dolls! </p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re right though: Dolls are not my forte whatsoever. I think I totally lost interest when my younger sis took my fave doll into a sandbox to play with and forgot it there. She, sis, was about 5, the doll about 85 back then. The doll got smashed by little boys who kicked it around. It was a Jumeau my grandmother had bestowed on me, with a porcelain head, glass eyes that opened and closed and real hair hair. [Sic transit gloria dolly.]</p><p><br /></p><p>Since y&#039;all sent out an APB for me, I&#039;ll venture a guess on the featured doll: Papier-maché. </p><p><br /></p><p>If the doll left South Africa at the time of the Boer Wars I will guess&nbsp; that it may once have been brought there from the Netherlands for a little Boer girl, then perhaps found by the Canadian soldier in a farm affected by the war. It&#039;d greatly surprise me if any doll manufacturing actually existed in Africa then. </p><p><br /></p><p>The papier-maché in the late 19th century was indeed a type of composition but more often used a mixture of shredded newspapers and, sometimes, gypsum [gips] instead of sawdust that was common in most typical composition dolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your doll has great historical interest I think. In a beauty contest she&#039;d lack points I&#039;m afraid. Although I admire her muscular legs. I had those when I was a young athlete in school... those were the days.. </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe you can have her eyes restored. It hurts me to look at her as &quot;blinded&quot; in your image.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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