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All kinds of materials were used for making dolls. I was very surprised myself when I found out that wax and metal were used among the other china, muslin, wood, celluloid, paper and rubber doll composites. As a child, I myself had dolls made out of rubber and cloth, and remember playing with paper dolls. A Kentucky firm in the 1870’s made dolls’ heads from flour, glue and a pulp mixture. The employees kneaded it like bread in large tubs, barefoot! That must have been fun! In the same article that I read I found that in 1890 Thomas Edison made a talking doll with a china head and a metal body. It was a few years after he invented the phonograph. The doll’s hand-cranked miniature phonograph played “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” I would have loved to see that doll today. Instead I have two photos of her from a magazine.