Historical Treasures
PANDORA DOLL
Dressing to impress with one of the world’s oldest toys Britain and America, c.1748
Dolls have a rich and fascinating history that dates back to at least 2,000 BCE and stretches across the globe. Although they’ve been played with as toys for centuries, dolls were also used as grave goods and for ritual purposes: girls in ancient Greece and Rome would offer their childhood dolls to the goddesses upon marriage, while boys dedicated theirs to the gods once they reached puberty.