Artifact No.27 - The Sailor Doll
For this month's artifact, we have a x from the Empress of Canada. The doll is made in England by Nora Wellings, who was a British toy maker that was born in 1893 and died in 1975. The Sailor Doll is part of her Jolly Boy Sailor line and will have been sold on cruise liners. This doll was likely sold on the actual Empress of Canada ship as a souvenir.
He's got creepy eyes. The face appears to be hand-painted and he's got a bit of a mischievous grin on his face. You could think elf on the shelf, but creepier.
It's a doll and the ship that it's associated with have a lot of history. I was curious about the Empress of Canada just because, well, or Canadian. And discovered that the Empress operated as a transatlantic ocean liner from 1961 to 1972. It would have regularly traveled between Liverpool, England and Canada for Canadian Pacific, which for those of you who don't know, Canadian Pacific Railway is our railway system here. And so they also had a cruise ship line at some point.
The Jolly Boy is an interesting piece of Canadiana and he knows it.
Creep out your kids or whoever else you think needs a creepy sailor doll.
Creep your dog, creep your cat, creep your goldfish. Creep your neighbors; just prop him up in the front window.
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