Picture Lilli doll with skirt and shirt. 1950/60's

Automatic translation from Danish.

Bild Lilli doll with skirt and shirt. 1950/60's. Original skirt and shirt. Red cape and hat from Mattel. H. 29 cm. Shows slight wear from use, however, hairline cracks at one shoulder.
The doll was originally a cartoon character drawn by Reinhardt Boythien for the newspaper Bild-Zeitung June 1952. Boythien contacted Max Weissbrodt from Hauser Elastolin company in Neustadt, Germany, to create Lilli as a doll. Production of the doll began and in 1955 the doll was first sold in Germany.