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are not sculpted to indicate
fingers, and she sports an actual
"shoe button" leather nose and
eyes, rather than the common
stitched nose and glass eyes of
later Houghton-made dolls. Her
needle-sculpted mouth adds to
her look. However, her slippers
look exactly like the ones being
worn by my doll, except for the
color variation. She is believed
to be the earliest example of
Houghton-made dolls, when
such dolls were made by hand
at the beginning of Ellen E.
Houghton's cottage industry
career. A darling red dress, hat
and a scarf molds perfectly
to her persona, and may be
quite original to her. She wears
a necklace featuring an 1896
American Indian Head penny
attached to a string or ribbon.
Her owner added a bundle of twigs for her to carry, to
complete her "little match girl" personality. We can all
agree that her special embellishments only add to her
overall charm.
My dear friend, whose doll is pictured in this
article along with mine, is a cloth doll expert and
shares one of the indicators of Ellen E. Houghton
dolls: the construction of their feet and heads. Aside
from looking different from one another, they all
have the ballerina-type feet, where the feet turn out
slightly, as if standing in a plie stance. The dolls are
made of stockinette material, with arms attached at
the shoulders, having a seam running on the inside of
the arms and legs, and down the back. Houghton dolls
sport a linen skull cap, which supports a mohair wig
of various colors, depending on the doll. Hands are
rounded, with either unstitched or stitched details to
indicate fingers. The wrists and ankles are delineated
with a string, to separate and define hands and feet from the rest of the
body. The mouth and the nose are stitched in pink, while the cheeks are
also shaded pink, as indicated on my doll. The dolls come with a variety
of colored-glass eyes imbedded in their sweet faces. Earlier dolls have
more primitive features, with shoe button eyes and a nose. The dolls are
generally stuffed with kapok.
Ellen Elizabeth Houghton knew what she was doing when she designed
these sweet dolls, with their charming and endearing personalities. They
draw you in and never let you go, whether you are a cloth doll collector, or
simply appreciate the artistic quality of these creations - it happened to me,
an avid antique German Kestner doll collector.

Her head seam construction shows
one seam running from side to
side, while the another is making
its way down the back of her head.

A close-up photo
details the binding of
the wrists.

Shown is a close-up of the bound ankles
and ballerina-type foot construction. Earlier
examples often did not have individually
stitched fingers.
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