Sentimental Sunday: Little Dutch Girl

Little Dutch girl from Germany,
 belonged to my mother, Dorothy F. Stewart Broadfoot

This cute little figurine belonged to my mother. At one time, it was in her dollhouse, which one of her grandfathers, both who were carpenters, made for her. One day, it disappeared from my room at my grandparents home in Cranston and because it belonged to my mother, she made the decision to donate it to a children's ward. I only know this because I asked her, before she passed away, why it wasn't saved for me to pass on?

She replied that she didn't have room to store it in our small house in "The Plat" but she did save some of the furniture in the dollhouse. I put those in my daughter's dollhouse and she recently sold them. The only things I didn't give to my daughter, I carefully packed away. Today, those items live in my mother's "perfume" shelf. I think they would make excellent Sentimental Sunday posts.

I don't think she's valuable. She has a stamp on her that says Germany.

When I married hubs, his father told me they were of Dutch descent. It wasn't for several years that I decided to investigate his surname. It was German! (Frazel, Frauzel, Frossel)

To his dying day, my father-in-law insisted that Germany was not right. What can you do about false family tales! Oh, well.