19th Jun, 2024 11:00

Dolls & Teddy Bear Auction

 
  Lot 850
 

850

A rare Chad Valley Ramsey MacDonald cloth doll

Sold for £210
Estimated at £150 - £200


 
with brushed cotton head, stencilled features, grey wool hair and moustache, stuffed cotton body with felt clothes and red and white woven label on back of trousers —12in. (30.5cm.) high (slight wear and ageing) - Ramsey MacDonald became the country's first Socialist Prime Minister of the UK in 1924, serving again from 1929-1931 and in the Coalition Government 1931-1935.