Catherine Howell: Well, the Jane Doe is literally a Jane Doe. We're in the process of moving all our dolls into new storage at the moment, and we're coming across dolls that don't have museum numbers attached to them – literally attached to them because to assign a number you have to physically either write it on the object or write it on something that is then attached to the object. And this doll doesn't have a number, so we don't know who she is. We also can't track her down from a description, which sometimes you can. At the end of the day what will happen, is that when we've moved all the dolls we will look at the lists of things to compare things that are missing from the list, and things that we've found that don't have numbers, and maybe some of them will match up. But we don't know about her yet.

What you can just tell from looking at her is that she's actually quite cheaply made. She's an example of a walking talking doll, that would have been very popular in the 50s and 60s. A lot of companies manufactured them in a big way, and also.. you know..very well manufactured. This one.. I mean obviously it does walk, and nods its head at the same time, has a voice box so presumably there was a voice as well, but she is sort of pinned together - literally. Some of her limbs.. her legs have kind of got this strange construction at the top where the walking bit is. And all her clothes are, um.. rather than being like a dress that you put on a doll, its like bits of cloth that have been pinned on to her to make it look like she's dressed, more than.. having been dressed properly.. So it is a bit odd.