I would never have thought of taking a picture of this doll but Charlotte is doing a project at school which involves taking photos in of the toys their grandparents played with. I thought I would also use the photo for 365. This doll was always old. I think it was my aunt's. She would have been in her early nineties now so Topsy is very, very old.
What a little beauty !! Not many black dolls to be seen these days - My friend and my childhood next door neighbour had a black doll very similar to this one and I had a white doll made from the same mould !! We had great fun parading the two side by side in a dolls pram . We knew of no black children in those days in rural mid-Wales ! so this was a great novelty .
She is lovely Sue, I think I might get my Lindy-Loo down for a pic, she is 65 eing bought for me when I was born by a favourite uncle - whoops forgot a birthday 66 :O(
I have a doll called Topsy too. She comes from Abyssinia and was my mother's . Her brother brought it back at the end of WW2. I will post a photo of her when I get home!
That is soo strange. I too had a similar doll given by my grandmother when I was in hospital (tonsils - nothing grand). Unlike you Sue, my doll didn't have such care and I don't have her any more. Charlotte is lucky having such a granny.
