VINTAGE ALICE JORGENSEN THREAD WRAPPED WIRE DOLL - THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL

-- THIS RARE DOLL DEPICTS HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON'S THE LITLE MATCH GIRL 

-- THIS WAS HANDMADE IN DENMARK BY ALICE JORGENSON, IT IS MARKED ON THE BOTTOM WITH A PAPER STICKER THAT SAYS "COPYRIGHT ALICE JORGENSON ODENSE MADE IN DENMARK" WITH ODENSE BEING THE BIRTHPLACE OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON.

-- ALICE JORGENSEN, A DOLLMAKER FROM ODENSE, DENMARK, WHO MADE DOLLS FOR THE WIFE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL AS WELL AS QUEEN INGRID OF THE DANISH ROYAL FAMILY, LOVED THEM ENOUGH THAT IN THE 1940'S SHE CREATED SETS OF SMALL DOLLS THAT WERE CHARACTERS FROM HIS STORIES. SHE BEGAN MAKING THEM AS GIFTS FOR FRIENDS AND THEN BEGAN SELLING THEM IN THE DANISH SOUVENIR STORE, "KLOD HANS", WHICH IS STILL IN BUSINESS ACROSS FROM THE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN HOUSE AND MUSEUM IN ODENSE.

-- IN A CORNER FORMED BY TWO HOUSES, ONE OF WHICH PROJECTED FARTHER OUT INTO THE STREET THAN THE OTHER, SHE SAT DOWN AND DREW UP HER LITTLE FEET UNDER HER. SHE WAS GETTING COLDER AND COLDER, BUT DID NOT DARE TO GO HOME, FOR SHE HAD SOLD NO MATCHES, NOR EARNED A SINGLE CENT...

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-- APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS: 

-- 2-1/4" TALL

-- LOC: A4 BIN 25

-- INV#: DOLL-300D

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