VINTAGE STYLE 4-HEADS TOPSY-TURVY DOLL/GOLDILOCKS,BEARS

 VINTAGE STYLE 4-HEADED,TOPSY-TURVY,  DOLL.4 DOLLS IN ONE. EACH DOLL,WHEN HELD BY HEAD IS 27 CM TALL.

 TOPSY-TURVEY DOLLS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE ORIGINALLY COME FROM AMERICA.IT IS THOUGHT THEY WERE 1ST MADE BY SLAVES FOR THEIR OWN CHILDREN TO PLAY WITH. ONE SIDE WAS A WELL-DRESSED WHITE MISTRESS OF THE HOUSE AND ON THE OTHER SIDE WAS A BLACK RAGGEDLY-DRESSED SERVANT.SOME HISTORIANS BELIEVE THEY WERE CLEVERLY CONCEALED TOYS FOR SLAVE CHILDREN,WHO MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO PLAY WITH BLACK DOLLS....WHEN THEY SENSED THERE COULD BE TROUBLE,THEY JUST TURNED THE DOLL OVER AND PLAYED WITH IT IN FRONT OF THEIR 'OWNERS'.MAY SEEM UNBELIEVABLE BUT, DURING APARTHEID, THIS WAS ALSO ILLEGAL!)OTHERS BELIEVE THEY WERE GIVEN TO WHITE CHILDREN TO SERVE AS SERVANTS FOR THE OTHER DOLLS.

AFTER THE CIVIL WAR THE DESIGN SHIFTED AND IT BECAME MORE THE WHITE CHILD ON ONE SIDE AND THE MAMMY ON THE OTHER.ACCORDING TO EXPERT COLLECTOR JAMILA JONES, SOME WERE SOLD WITH THE SLOGAN"TURN ME UP,TURN ME BACK,1ST I'M WHITE AND THEN I'M BLACK".

THE THEMES CHANGED AS THE YEARS WORE ON AND FAIRYTALE THEMES BECAME POPULAR.2-HEADED IS THE MOST COMMON,THERE ARE ALSO 3 AND 4-HEADED TOPSY-TURVEY DOLLS,BUT THESE ARE RARER THAN THE 2-HEADED ONES!

THE STORY OF GOLDILOCKS AND THE 3 BEARS WAS TOLD USING THIS TOPSY-TURVY DOLL.

THE CHARACTERS ARE FOUND BY TURNING THE DOLL UPSIDE DOWN AND PULLING BACK THE HOOD TO DISCOVER 2 HEADS AT EACH END. WONDERFULLY MADE.....NO TELEVISION THEN!..... THE PARENT WOULD TELL THE STORY TO THE CHILD WHILE REVEALING EACH HEAD IN TURN.

FATHER BEAR IS BROWN FURRY,WITH BROWN NOSE.

MOTHER BEAR HAS A PINK HEAD AND AN APRON ON,AND A BLACK NOSE.

 AND BABY BEAR HAS A PAIR OF RED OVERALLS ON AND A PINK NOSE,BROWN AND WHITE FLUFFY HEAD.

GOLDILOCKS HAS EMBROIDERED EYES,NOSE AND MOUTH,GOLDEN HAIR AND A RED BOW RIBBON ON HER DRESS.

CONDITION:-VERY GOOD CONDITION FOR AGE...ALL SEWING IS COMPLETE AND IN GOOD ORDER,ALL EMBROIDERY IN GOOD ORDER. 1 MINOR STAIN BETWEEN EYES OF GOLDILOCKS(SEE PHOTO,NOT OBVIOUSLY NOTICEABLE).***GREAT DOLL COLLECTORS ITEM OR A VINTAGE COLLECTORS TOY FOR  A CHILD TO LOVE AND EXPERIENCE LIFE BEFORE TV,NANNA MAY HAVE EVEN PLAYED WITH ONE OF THESE..ASK HER?.***

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