Doll

Few of the companies that made china heads labeled their products with identifying logos or marks. Years later, because doll collectors could not always identify the maker of a doll, they named their dolls according to their hairstyles. Some styles names derived from the famous individuals who made the style popular, people like Jenny Lind, Queen Victoria, and Mary Todd Lincoln. Other terms were more a description of the style itself--high brow, low brow, spill curls, and curly top. Collectors call the hairstyle on this doll Dolley Madison, because the First Lady appears in a portrait with short curls and a hairband. Truthfully, though, the hairstyle replicates the popular 'do of a child in the Victorian era.