This Madame Alexander hard plastic Lissy is dressed in her ORIGINAL CLOTHES. best and most precise key to the date of the doll and to the age and sex represented. Often it is difficult to differentiate between original clothes and Contemporary Clothes. PROVENANCE: The provenance of a doll is the identification of its origin, its period and its type. REPRODUCTION: Dolls made by producing a mold from an existing doll or figurine and using this mold for the reproduction. The PROVENANCE of this doll is partly identified by the accompanying photo showing the doll with her original owner. The photograph has written on the back: Feb 1940//Dubuque, Iowa. The name Mortimer Snerd was the TRADE NAME used by Ideal for this doll with composition head, arms and wooden feet mounted on flexible wire mesh arms and legs. RESTORED DOLL: A doll that has been repaired and/or repainted and/or with replaced parts. Cleaning a doll or restringing a composition body does not make it a restored doll. TRADE NAME: The name given to a doll or part of a doll by makers, assemblers or distributors and used in advertising and/or as a trademark. DOLL NEWS * ufdc.org 135http://www.ufDc.Org