This antique composition doll has a sawdust stuffed cloth body and jointed legs. We think this blue stripped outfit is the orginal. (It is held at the nape of the neck with a pin.)
On the back of the neck this doll is marked EIH © 1911.
After some thorough research, we believe this to be one of the Horsman Can't Break 'Em character dolls -- and also the first in the Gold Medal Baby series, its face having been created by Helen Fox Trowbridge. This head was sculpted in 1911 using her own one-year-old son, Mason Jr., as the model. This was the first time, the first in the series that Horsman called the Gold Medal Baby, that this mold was used.
The doll measures 12 inches.
We've taken lots of photos to show conditions, including the broken fingertips on the right hand, the wear on the left foot (likely from some child's sucking, and the wear on the head. All the joints are flexible and move nicely.
Overall, we are impressed with this old fragile doll's beauty & charm -- and we hope you are too because he needs a loving home!
