Item HT 53330 Doll - Chef, Plastic, White Apron & Cap, McArthur Family Doll's House, circa 1925-1950

Summary

Alternative Name(s): Cook

Toy male chef. He's wearing a white apron and hat. The doll represents Neil McArthur, maker of the doll's house. He later became a chef at Holcomb House (later named Tasma Court). The doll with the chef's clothes represents him.

The doll's house was built around 1920 by Neil McArthur for his much younger half-sister Elizabeth (Beth) Twycross, born in 1917. Neil made the doll's house out of found materials including cigar boxes; he also made many of the furnishings in the doll's house. Some of the contents of the doll's house may date back to the 1860s, played with by ancestor Charlotte Twycross; most date to either the 1920s or the 1940s-50s. In the early 1950s the donor was given the spruced-up doll's house as a birthday present by her parents. In later years her own daughter later added items, although she wasn't allowed to play due to its fragility.

Physical Description

Doll in chef's clothing. Made of plastic, painted in a causcasian skin tone with red hair, blue eyes and red lips. Feet painted black to look like shoes. Wearing a emovable white cap and hite smock, over which is a white cross over apron which ties at the back.