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It is painted pink with slanting green eyes highlighted with black and white, black stroke eyebrows, face lines and spots and an open mouth with moving lower jaw painted red with white teeth. Inside the mouth is pink and there is a red felt tonge. The hair is a white fleece (with leather) wig. The torso is made of two part, upper/chest and lower/hips.  The legs and arms are each made of two pieces of dowel (arms painted pink and legs white); the legs are thicker than the arms. The hands are made of moulded pink plastic, large and open, and the feet of rounded blocks of wood painted black. The head, body and arms are joined by steel eyelet screws, while the legs are jointed at the hips, knees and ankles by steel plates, nailed into each part.\n\nThe strings are knotted to various parts of the body - two black ones to the head by steel eyelets painted pink on either side; two reds ones, to the hands; two blue ones just above the knees, two green ones to the shoulders and a yellow one to the back of the body. The strings are tied to the wooden control, two bars of wood linked together by a large metal clip which will allow the bars to twist out to form a '+'. The red ones are tied to an eyelet covered with a red plastic dome, the blue ones to two eyelets covered with a blue plastic dome, the greens ones to a green plastic dome and the yellow likewise attached to an eyelet covered by a yellow plastic dome. At the top of the bars is a large black metal hook which can be used to hang the puppet up.\n\r\nThe puppet is dressed as a witch in a black cotton dress, red and white spotted apron and black felt hat, nailed to head. Attached via the strings to the hands is a wood and straw broom.\n\r\nWindow box sleeve, yellow cardboard printed in colours to show the maker's details and illustration of a range of figures made by the company. The window is cellophane. Inside is a xox of yellow card which has been constructed and folded in a way to produce an inner lining to each side. The outside is printed in colours toshow the maker's trademark and details, one illustration and three sets of instructions. One set is 'TO TAKE PUPPET OUT OF BOX', the second is 'TO PUT PUPPET BACK IN BOX' and the third, printed on the bottom with an illustration, is 'TO MAKE THE PUPPET WALK'. There is also a white cardboard insert, folded and shaped to hold the puppet. At one end a circle has been cut out to support the puppet's head and allow the control and strings to be placed underneath.\r\n\r\nInstructions sheet for the control of a puppet, white glossy paper printed in black. 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