MV Dominion Monarch Nora Wellings Doll

Price: NZ$105.98

Code: BH146

QSMV Dominion Monarch was a British refrigerated cargo liner. Her name was a reference to the Dominion of New Zealand. The unusual prefix “QSMV” stood for quadruple-screw motor vessel.
The ship was built in England in 1937–39, and when new she set a number of records for her size and power. She operated between Britain and New Zealand via Australia in civilian service 1938–40 and 1948–62 and was a troop ship 1940–47. She spent half of 1962 in the Port of Seattle as a floating hotel for the Century 21 Exposition and was then scrapped in Japan.

Cloth Sailor dolls were created by Norah Wellings, England. Norah, the chief designer for Chad Valley, opened her own doll company Victory Toys with her brother Leo in 1926. Travel by ship was a very popular means of transport during this period and almost all the shipping companies sold the souvenir sailor dolls on board their ocean liners. They were produced right up until 1960, the year of Leo’s passing, when the company closed.

The Empire company produced sailor dolls in a similar style. To distinguish between the two dolls, Empire or Wellings, look for the ‘Empire’ sticker under the collar on the back, or remnants of, and check the foot as Norah Wellings dolls will be tagged.
Each soft cloth sailor doll wears the name of the ocean liner proudly on their hat bands.

This doll is in very good condition for its age, see all the photo’s of him, This is an original doll and includes his Nora Wellings label., they are mischievously moorish, one is never enough believe me, we have a large inventory of all types of sailor dolls including rare Welling’s examples.