Antique DOLL Collector April 2024 Vol. 27, No. 4
Effanbee's Historical Series Antique Paper Dolls Father, Brother & Boyfriend Dolls We Love The Tale of Dollmaker Darrow The Marin Dolls of Spain by Samy Odin
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Out in the garden where the flowers grow, Where fairies sing and warm winds blow, I take my dolls and we play for hours, Out in the garden among the flowers…
have always loved spring. When I was a little girl, we had a playhouse in our backyard. Inside was a table with a bench, and at the windows were bright white curtains sprinkled with colorful butterflies. It was a lovely place to spend a soft spring day. This April issue of Antique DOLL Collector takes us back to that age of innocence. Our cover story comes to us from Joy Harrington, who shares the charm of homemade paper dolls from the 19th century. Samy Odin takes us to Spain where we meet the legendary Marin dolls. Linda Edward chronicles a story of pure Yankee ingenuity—how a humble piece of rawhide could become a child’s beloved plaything. Debbie Bigness relays a fairytale-come-true of finding two rare dolls in a local auction, one of which became a grand blue-ribbon winner. With a focus on male dolls, Donna Brown delights us with the brawnier side of doll collecting, reacquainting us with dolls from leading manufacturers of the 1950s-60s-70s. The calendar overflows with doll-related events worldwide, and our dealers offer tempting treasures for everyone. Enjoy a peaceful spring! …We sing with the fairies and run with the breeze; Then they ask us to join them for afternoon tea. My dolls and I chat with the pansies and roses, While the warm breeze blows them in striking poses ‘Til evening falls and we say goodnight Leaving the garden in the moon’s soft light.
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Delightful Dolls of Paper Homemade Paper Dolls of the 1850s and 1860s By Joy Harrington
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hope that most of you experienced the childhood pleasure of creative play with paper dolls as I certainly did growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. I played with commercially produced paper dolls that were readily available at the time. The paper dolls had printed underwear and a wardrobe of clothing, which were attached by folding tabs on the top edges of the garments. The making of paper dolls dates to at least the mid-1700s when hand-painted paper dolls were used to show the latest in fashion attire for wealthy adults. The production of commercially made paper dolls dates to the 1790s with the development of lithography, which reduced the cost of printing. But it was not until around 1810, with the advent of a growing middle class sparked by the Industrial Revolution, that commercially produced paper dolls intended for children’s play started to become available. By the 1850s and 1860s, there were several publishers of paper dolls, with the McLoughlin Brothers of New York being one of the most prolific manufacturers over time. Early on, they created a series of individual dolls sold like the 6 ½-inch tall “Susie’s Pets” (dated 1859) as shown in image 2. She came in the envelope as shown with a wardrobe of dresses. Unlike the folding tabs used to attach the garments on my childhood paper dolls, these early paper dolls wore two-sided clothing that was applied over the head of the doll. This created a more realistic two-dimensional figure that could be enjoyed from the front and the back. The focus of this article is not on the beautiful commercially produced paper dolls
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2. “Susie’s Pets” produced by McLoughlin Brothers, ca 1859.
of the mid-1800s, but on the homemade versions of these dolls that were fashioned by children for their enjoyment. There is no doubt that the commercially available paper dolls and paper dolls printed in children’s magazines to be cut out and colored served as the inspiration for the homemade creations. I started collecting these little paper treasures about twenty years ago as I thought they made charming playthings for some of my dolls, like the Izannah Walker dolls who date to the same 1850s-60s period as shown in image 1. I think I also was drawn to them because as a person who never graduated beyond creating stick figures for humans, I was charmed by the individual expressions of talent and creativity of the makers. All a child required to make a paper doll was a pencil, paper, and scissors, items accessible to most children at that time. The first paper doll I acquired was the little 2 ¼-inch girl with six dresses in image 3. She is made from card stock and her dresses are made from plain paper. The doll has pencil-drawn facial features, hair, and clothing with details for her chemise and petticoat with lace from her pantalets
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peaking below and polka-dotted stockings and ankle tie shoes. She also has a bead necklace drawn around her neck. The embellishments on the dresses are hand drawn and the two dresses in color are done on colored paper. Interestingly, the dresses were made with a partial back that slips on across the shoulders. Some of the back pieces have been lost over time and there is evidence of tape having been used later to secure them. There were boy paper dolls made as well, but I doubt they were made in the same numbers as commercial or homemade girl dolls. I was lucky to find these three boys shown in image 4. The larger boy is almost 3-inches and is just a cut-out figure of a boy on paper with drawn and colored features and clothing on a thin card stock. I particularly like the detail of his footwear. I doubt he was created as a true paper doll with additional clothes. I am including him as he came to me with the two smaller boys who are 2 ¼-inches and 2 ¾-inches tall. These two boys are made of regular-weight paper as are their articles of clothing. The smaller boy has his hair, facial features, and underwear drawn on only the front of his body and the taller boy has painted facial features, hair, and shoes. He does not have any definition of underclothing drawn on the front of his body and his backside is blank. The smaller
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6. A large homemade girl at 6-inches tall.
7. Four homemade dolls range from 1 ¾-inches to 3 ½-inches tall.
boy came with two similar outfits with only pencil details. Both outfits slip over his head and therefore are two sided but there are no details on the backs of the outfits. The other boy’s colorful wardrobe is made from different papers. The brown outfit and the blue outfit are made from embossed fancy papers and the light blue top missing its pants is made from a blue print paper. The navy top is made of a plain paper that is painted blue with painted buttons and applied embossed white paper tie and cuffs. All of his outfits were made to be two sided with the tops fitting over the head and the pants sliding up his body from his feet. ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR
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8. Twin homemade girls at 4 ¼-inches tall and their extensive wardrobe.
The charming trio of girls shown in image 5 are larger than the previous examples, ranging from 4 ½-inches to 5-inches tall. They are created of paper and have drawn and painted features. Two of the girls have painted hair on the backs of their heads while one has no hair featured on the back. However, when examining the backs of the girls, one can easily see scribble marks indicating that the back of the paper had been previously used. I doubt these girls ever had extra clothing as their dresses are affixed to the dolls. The little artist of these three was very creative in her costuming. The girl with the blue painted fringed skirt has a decorative pink printed paper bodice embellished with a blue painted paper neckline. Her pantalets are showing beneath her skirt and appear to be trimmed in Van Dyke points, a popular style of trim at that time. She also has an actual tiny medal-beaded necklace around her neck. The girl in yellow has a long-sleeved dress of painted yellow paper with green painted details. Her pantalets do not show. The girl to her right has a pointed bodice and skirt of different printed papers. This girl has pantalets showing both tucks and Van Dyke point trim. All three girls wear the typical slipper-type tie shoes of the period. The largest homemade paper doll in my collection is this 6 ½-inch-tall girl made of card stock shown in image 6. Her facial features are done in color and she has wonderful light brown curls circling her face. She has a chemise, pantalets, and petticoat drawn on and embellished in pencil as well as red striped socks and blue plaid and black shoes. She wears a drawn-on red bead necklace and bracelets, which I assume represent coral beads, which was 18
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very popular during this period. Her two-sided dress is made of a fancy printed paper and only the front is decorated. She came to me only wearing this dress and it is fun to think about other fancy dresses the little maker of this paper doll might have produced. A collection of the four dolls in image 7 came to me framed together. I am assuming they originally started out together as they share similar hand-drawn decorations on their dresses. Only the baby, depicted in the long-tiered dress, does not have separate clothing. She has a center fold indicating she was cut from a folded piece of paper with each side mirroring the other. The other three girls have carefully hand-drawn decorated underpinnings and twosided dresses with only the fronts showing decorations. The dolls and their dresses are made of paper and the inside of the smallest dress shows script with a partial date and words, which may have been part of a letter or other handwritten document. They range in size from 1 ¾-inches to 3 ½-inches tall. The twin girls shown in image 8 are particularly noteworthy for their extensive wardrobe consisting of seven twin dresses, four single dresses, and two pairs of coordinating hats. It is a marvel to me that much of the wardrobe has remained intact for 160 or more years. The twins stand 4 ¼-inches tall. They are made of paper and have pencil-drawn features, 9. A set of four homemade dolls ranging from 1-inch to 3-inches tall. chemises, petticoats, and shoes. Each girl has a lovely gold necklace evidenced on the insides of some of the dresses. Although glued onto their neck. The backs of the dolls are blank. The the dresses are not decorated on the backs, the four cleverly dolls and each two-sided dress have center folds, indicating designed hats make up for it. None of my other homemade that they were cut out to have each side mirroring the other. paper dolls have headwear, but the typical hat or bonnet for One must assume that the creator of the twins put in time a commercially produced paper doll at the time would have gathering the variety of papers and scraps used to make been flat with a slit to place on the head. These four hats are the clothing and thought into designing and decorating very different and have an almost three-dimensional quality each dress. The dresses are made from a variety of papers, with an actual brim that circles the head. The light-colored including parts of envelopes, letters, and advertising, as ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR
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10. Four homemade dolls ranging from 2 ½-inches to 3-inches tall.
hat is made from a heavier stock paper and is decorated with litho scraps of flowers, which are also used on some of the dresses. A pink paper bow with curled ribbons finishes the back of the hat. The black hat is made from a black paper with a gold embossed design on the front, which is also used on some of the dresses. A dark blue paper bow with trailing ribbons adorns the back. I suspect the creator of these dolls had as much fun making them as playing with them. The final three groupings of handmade paper dolls are a mystery to me. These dolls are very different in appearance from the others in my collection, which mimic the commercial paper dolls that were available at the time. I wonder if they were made from a paper doll pattern provided in one of the several popular children’s magazines published at that time. I found the first grouping of four dolls in image 9 at a Maine auction many years ago in a lot of ephemera and early paper boxes. They have thin bodies underneath their clothing which is firmly affixed to their bodies. The child in blue may depict a boy since he has an obvious slit up the front and buttons depicted on the front bodice. The tiny twins each have a coral necklace 20
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11. A faceless homemade boy, 4 ½-inches tall.
drawn on at the front of their necks, These dolls range from 3-inches tall down to an inch for the pink twins, who each lost a lower arm in their journey through time. Note the tiny slippercovered feet peeking out from beneath their pantalets and pantaloons, The feet are part of the body and obviously required detailed cutting skills. I had not seen anything like these thin paper dolls again until this past year when I discovered this grouping of four in a New Hampshire auction lot of paper dolls and ephemera as pictured in image 10. These dolls are more refined than my previous grouping, but they are very similar. They have a similar structure, but their bodies are more substantial and their clothing consists of separate pieces. The two dolls in the middle have separate aprons as well. The clothing is detailed on the fronts and the backs of these dolls. Note the similarity in the treatment of the hair and simple faces of these dolls to the previous grouping. These dolls also have painted hair on the backs of their heads. The dolls range in size from 2 ½-inches tall for the boy in the blue collar, who is missing his hands, to the other three girls who are 3-inches tall. Very recently I found this 4 ½-inch boy shown in image 11 who echoes the look and construction of the previous two groupings and was also found in New England. His body is made of a lightweight paper as is his clothing. Under his pink paper tunic, black printed type is visible. The tunic has a front opening with a turned-down collar and a thin paper belt tied around his waist. His yellow paper pants have an embossed design visible on the back and are affixed to his body. He is faceless and void of any drawn details on his head or clothing. The mystery of these dolls continues, and I welcome any information that a reader of this article may have of the possible origins of these specific dolls. I have enjoyed sharing my small collection of these delightful homemade paper dolls and hope it sparks interest in and appreciation for these fragile playthings made over 160 years ago. ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR
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The Marin Doll Company The Story of a Dream Come True
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y fascination with Spanish-made dolls goes back to the early 2000s, when I set up a special exhibition on the topic at the Musée de la Poupée in Paris. Under the tutelage of a highly knowledgeable collector—my good friend the late Andrée Porté—I began to appreciate the traditional dolls of Spain, including ones made by José Marín Verdugo. Some twenty years later, in October 2023, I escorted a group of doll collectors in Spain, and we visited the recently opened Centro de Interpretación del Vino y la Sal in Chiclana de la Frontera, Andalusia where a collection of dolls made in Chiclana by the Marín Doll Company is now on permanent display. On the day of our visit, we arranged to meet the son of the founder of the company. He gave us a private tour of the collection and this article is the result of what we saw.
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This logo was used by Marin since the mid-1930s. It usually comes printed on a paper tag stapled onto the garment of a doll.
José Marín Verdugo was born in Chiclana in 1903. As a child, he showed a precocious artistic talent which led his parents to educate him at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cadiz. While doing military service in Madrid, he had the idea of creating dolls wearing flamenco attire and selling them as souvenirs at the Plaza Mayor in that city. Encouraged by his first success as an entrepreneur, he went back to living in Chiclana de la Frontera where he founded the Muñecas Marín company in 1928. In those years Spain was struggling through The Depression. Technologically the country was behind most other European countries and the population was starving, especially in Andalusia. By daring to open a factory specializing in a field that had no local tradition, the young José took serious risks. Nonetheless, he pursued his vision, made the right choices, and found success,
The Centro de Interpretación del Vino y la Sal now permanently displays the collection of dolls donated by the Marín Company in the heart of the city of Chiclana, in Andalusia.
Antonio Marín is pictured standing next to Maria Emilia Lira, a private doll collector, inside the rooms dedicated to the dolls donated by the Marín Company to the city of Chiclana de la Frontera.
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José Marín Verdugo was an accomplished artist who drew a great variety of sketches to translate them into three-dimensional dolls produced by his company. Here is a sample of his artwork on display in Chiclana.
while offering substantial work to the area. By the time Marín reached the peak of its popularity, during the 1950s and 1960s, the company employed over 100 workers and exported Spanish traditional dolls worldwide. In the beginning, Marín made cloth play dolls in the style of Lenci, some representing adult figures, others, children or babies. A photograph from the late 1920s testifies to the appearance of the earliest Marín dolls,
though they are difficult to identify since the well-known logo had not been patented then. During the mid-1930s, a series of child dolls wearing military and occupational attire was launched. They were high-quality stuffed cloth dolls that sported the paper logo, stapled to their garments. Some specimens of this early series are on display in Chiclana but we saw others in a toy museum in Figueras and a few more will soon be
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Left: One of the earliest Marín pieces on display in the Chiclana museum is this child wearing a military uniform from the mid-1930s. Note the smiling face mold, the way the eyes are painted, and the cotton material used for the skin. All these features are typical of the Marín doll production. Right: A very similar make-up scheme is evident on this lady doll wearing a flamenco dancer costume, also dated from the early 1930s.
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on public display in the Centro Fábrica de la Luz, also in Chiclana, where the private collection of Maria Emilia Lira has found a permanent home. Looking more closely at these pieces, one notices that there is a single facial mold, the 19-to-21-inch size. Distinguishing elements include the painted wide smile, and the side-glancing eyes enhanced by a horizontal bright white line. Also, these dolls have singlestitched fingers with detailed, painted nails, an absence of articulation to the limbs, a wooden base on which each character stands, and a paper tag showing the Marín logo. The couple featured here, and from the collection of Maria Emilia Lira, wear the Falangist uniform. These rarities were produced between 1934 and 1937. They are exceptional pieces that have been
Falangist dolls belonging to Maria Emilia Lira.
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Left: The distinctive feature of the dolls made by Marín was the attitude, always very realistic and not as static as most of the souvenir dolls made by other companies at the time. Right: The Marín doll production during the 1940s was still very popular but the size of the dolls diminished, and the quality of the materials became less because of the difficulty of finding affordable fabrics. Below: Marín created a nice variety of male characters, mostly adult figures, representing dancers, musicians, and, of course, toreadors.
preserved in pristine condition. They still have the pinned and hand-written note that reads “Falangist,” referring to the political organization founded in 1933 by José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the son of the Spanish 1920s dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera. Inspired by the Italian Fascist movement, the Falangists party contributed significantly to the beginning of the civil war in 1936 and was absorbed by the party that brought Franco to dictatorship in 1939. Another specialty that Marín developed during the 1930s is the “flamencas.” José made fantastic sketches for those dolls, on prominent display in the museum. He also found innovative technical solutions to produce three-dimensional dolls that mirror his designs. Comparing the 1930s dancing silhouettes with José’s sketches is fascinating. His son, Señor Antonio Marín,
explained to our group that his father had a secret ingredient that added a drop of light into the eyes of his dolls—a sparkle—which he would not reveal to us. The characteristic elements of these 1930s flamenco dolls are the use of wired cloth, hand-painted features, traditional dancer costumes, dramatic poses, and a small size (standing between 8 and 10 inches). The face mold of the dolls is very similar to that used for the military series, except that the proportions are those of a young adult lady. The second half of the 1930s coincided with a change of habits for the working and lower middle classes of Europe. They now started to travel during their summer vacations, so tourism evolved. This major change in society affected companies such as Marín, causing them to develop new products to be sold as mass-produced souvenirs for tourists. ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR
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This colorful lady doll represents Lola Flores, the famous Spanish dancer, actress, and singer whose popularity was at its peak during the 1950s and 1960s. A special face-mold had been sculpted by Marín in her likeness.
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The aesthetics of Spanish gypsy dancers consisted of strongly featured faces, jet black hair, suggestive body language, colorful traditional attire, and folkloristic accessories such as combs, fans, guitars, and castanets.
This is the time when Marín transformed the appearance of the “flamencas.” They still had a wired and stuffed cloth body but the head was now made of molded plaster composition. The features were always hand-painted and the garments were masterfully sewn to represent the colorful dresses worn to dance Flamenco. During the 1940s, doll production had to adapt to the lack of primary materials. As a consequence, the flamencas were mostly made in a smaller size, using a lower quality cloth, and the heads were made out of plastered cardboard with a more simplistic make-up. This lower-quality production did not last long since, in the meantime, the baby boom was starting. The craze for folklore dolls was increasing, and Marín was smart enough to make contracts with several exporters which successfully established his business on the international scene. By the early 1950s, Marín was producing a wider variety of traditional dolls, essentially flamencas, some of which portrayed the new Spanish diva of that era—Lola Florès. She incarnated the archetype of the gypsy artist with a strong character, with evident dancing and acting skills, wearing smashing flamenco dresses with bubbling flounces, expressive fans, and playing the typical castanets.
Marín’s catalog featured a myriad of dolls wearing the traditional costumes of the many different regions in Spain. The quality and historical accuracy of their doll garments are amazing and make this company among the best in this field.
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The daughter of José Marín Verdugo played a major role in her father’s company since the 1960s. When the market for folklore dolls started to fade, she oriented the production towards new venues, such as miniature dolls on a dollhouse scale and historic dolls representing royals from various countries. Popular miniature dolls for dollhouses were produced by Marín during the 1980s and 1990s.
The cliché of the Spanish folklore was perfectly incarnated in the Marín dolls. The process of making them quickly evolved. Keeping control over the quality, yet increasing their quantity, José Marín created molds for each part of the doll body and made them with molded plaster, first. Then he made dolls with the hard plastic that was becoming so popular at that time. The size of the company grew exponentially with the number of Marín’s workers. Complementary to the flamencas, other dolls were produced, in various sizes, and wearing traditional costumes from the different regions of Spain. This is when male characters were also produced and often the two dolls were sold by the couple. During the 1960s, the next generation started to be involved in the company. Daughter Ana (1941-2008), especially. She took over the sewing department and brought new ideas, such as the production of miniatures in the right scale for dollhouses, or the creation of historical portraits representing characters including Henry VIII, Marie-Antoinette, Elizabeth I, and the Spanish royals King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia. In 1974, the Marin Company was awarded the prestigious “Premio Internacional de Muñecas” in Cracovia. This honor underlined the prominent position Marín then had at the time in their industry. During the 1980s the craze for souvenir dolls started to decrease but Marín kept going until 2014, when it closed for good after 86 years of activity. Today, the legacy of José Marín lives on through the company collection which has been donated to the Centro de Interpretación del Vino y la Sal, a cultural venue that preserves the artistry of the area—an area known for its production of wine, salt… and dolls!
Iconic royalty bisque characters were also produced by Marín over the years, targeting an adult collector audience.
Today the legacy of José Marín is well preserved through the special rooms devoted to the Marín Company inside the Centro de Interpretación del Vino y la Sal in Chiclana de la Frontera.
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Trash to Treasure From
the Story of the Darrow Doll By Linda Edward
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n typical Yankee fashion Frank E. Darrow of Bristol, Connecticut turned his inventive mind toward making use of his factory scraps to create an unbreakable doll in 19th century America. By the time he was born in 1834 Darrow’s family was well established in what is now the state of Connecticut. His father Elisha Darrow was part of a growing manufacturing business community in the town of Bristol. Bristol was at this time becoming well-known for clock making. Elijah entered into a brief partnership with Chauncey and Noble Jerome. Their company, called Jerome, Darrow & Co. manufactured brass clocks. Elijah Darrow left this business in 1826 and would go on to manufacture a variety of products including clock tablets (clock tablets are the reverse-painted glass panels used on clocks of the era). Elijah’s son, Franklin Elijah Darrow was born July 18, 1834. He graduated from the public schools in Bristol and went to work with his father. He married Amelia Whiting in 1860 and raised a family. Franklin took over the family business concern after his father’s death in 1857. Eventually he sold the clock-related side of the business to Ingrahams and moved on to manufacturing other items including brass-wares and rawhide machine pulleys.
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As previously stated, Darrow had an inventive mind for creating new products and he had a need to make use of all the resources he had at hand. The New Englander spirit of waste not, want not was part of the inspiration that led Darrow to the business of doll making. As he considered the rawhide leather scraps from his other manufacturing, he turned his thoughts to identifying some product that could be made from them, a product that the marketplace had a need for. This brought about the idea of making a better type of toy or doll. On January 23, 1866 Franklin Darrow and Deon Peck received a US patent for “useful improvements in the manufacture of toys or dolls.” This patent described a process to allow for the making of a “cheaper and more durable” products than those being made of the ceramic and other materials of the day.
Darrow’s early experience in manufacturing was in working for his father Elijah who in the 1820s was in partnership with the Jerome brothers making clocks such as this stenciled Column and Splat shelf clock, marked “Jeromes and Darrow.” Photo courtesy of Bonhams Skinner auctions.
The Darrow Rawhide dolls mirrored both human fashion and the other dolls of the day in their hairstyles. These are generally variations of the so-called Highbrow hairstyle typical of the china, parian, and papier-mâché dolls of the 1860s. Photo courtesy of Dotta Auctions.
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It has oft been said that the finish on Darrow dolls can be found in three conditions, poor, very poor, and completely repainted. Although Darrow was looking for a means to make a more durable doll, he was not thinking past the childhood days of his time. A century and a half later most examples of his dolls have lost their original paint. Remarkably, this 25-inch Darrow is in wonderful condition, retaining much of her original paint. Photo courtesy of Ruby Lane shop, Oldeclectics. For additional study of original finish, photos in Madelaine Merrill’s The Art of Dolls, published in 1985, show examples with original paint.
ABOVE AND RIGHT: Darrow held two patents for his doll-making process. The first was taken out jointly with Deon E. Peck; it was patent # 52142 granted on January 23, 1866. The second was for an improvement on the original process and is patent # 54301, awarded on May 1, 1866.
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Darrow Dolls usually range between 13 inches and 27 inches in height. Faint traces of this doll’s painted bodice collar can be seen in this photo, examples with blue painted detail have also been found. The brown leather arms on this example are often seen on these dolls. Photo courtesy of Frashers Doll Auction.
The process employed the use of molds, into which rawhide “blanks” were pressed into shape. These molds created front and back pieces of the toy or doll head, which were then glued together. The style of the shoulder-head doll that was created by Darrow’s process was very much in keeping with the style of china and papier-mâché dolls of the time. One can’t help but wonder if the molds used were perhaps made directly off available commercially made china dolls. Once his process was put into practice Darrow soon realized a need to improve the process and in May of 1866, he was awarded a second patent specifically for doll making. This patent revolved around the step of soaking or steaming the rawhide blanks with a mixture of lye and water to make the leather more pliable thereby allowing the material to take the form of the mold or die more readily. Darrow stated that this also produced a harder finished product which would better retain its shape. Interestingly, in his patent he also mentioned that he had tried using alcohol to soften the rawhide but found it to be cost-prohibitive, which seems to be an indication of the degree of experimentation Darrow pursued. Along with the doll making business, Darrow continued to make other products in his factory even receiving another US patent in 1868 for an improved spittoon! In the book Bristol, Connecticut: “in the Olden Time New Cambridge” author Eddy N Smith states that Darrow’s doll making enterprise lasted for several years, but no exact date is given for the end of the venture. Franklin Darrow went on to manage other company’s factories in Rockport and Lynn, Massachusetts before returning to Bristol, Connecticut to become the chairman of the District 3 School Committee before his death on December 8, 1882. Darrow’s desire to make a durable product was realized in the fact that when found, his doll heads do indeed still retain their molded shapes over 150 years later. What he did not foresee was that the painted surfaces of the dolls were not fated to last. Still, the Darrow rawhide doll is an example of American ingenuity and is deserving of its place in the continuing story of doll making. q
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This side view image clearly shows the reinforced seamline joining the two halves of the doll’s head. Photo courtesy of Ruby Lane shop, Art For Life.
ABOVE: Darrow’s label remains on the front shoulder plate of this doll. Photo courtesy of Ruby Lane shop, Oldeclectics. RIGHT: The Darrow rawhide doll fits in perfectly in collections that spotlight American-made dolls, folkart, and mid-19th-century dolls.
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The Ohio National Doll Show
Save the Date!!! Special Events October 5th, Doll Show October 6th 2024
Special Meal Events sponsored by the United Federation of Doll Clubs
Brunch with Valerie Fogel “Huret, A Family Affair”
Luncheon with Bradley Justice “Barbie’s 65th Birthday Bash”
Afternoon Tea with Robert Tonner “From Clay to Computer to AI, the Changing Landscape of Doll Design”
Candlelit Dinner with Fritzi Martinez “Decorating Antique Dolls Houses with a Theme”
Held in the Ohio Event Center at the beautiful Cherry Valley Hotel in Newark, Ohio For Hotel Reservations: Call (740) 788-1200 Reference Ohio National 2024 Doll Show for Group Rate. For more information go to: OhioNationalDollShow.com or contact Gail Lemmon at: (440) 396-5386 or OhioNationalDollShow@gmail.com
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Unexpected Treasures By Debbie Bigness
The Effanbee Historical Doll—1760 Pre-Revolutionary—as purchased at auction.
“Large streaks of brown staining dominated the creamy satin of what was once a beautiful gown. Couture on a composition doll? Maybe it had been redressed. A pristine, composition face topped by what appeared to be a powdered wig peeked out from the ruined costume. That face. There was something about that face…” 34
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Severe staining on the bodice of the 1760 Pre-Revolutionary gown.
Markings on the Effanbee Historical dolls won at auction.
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he auction preview that I was attending held numerous doll-buying opportunities—unusual for this auction house which deals primarily in vintage household wares, jewelry, and artwork. I have been purchasing dolls from this auction house for over three decades, and I am their only true doll collector customer. Most of their other customers are antique dealers who shy away from the dolls. But, due to the pandemic, this auction house has gone the way of many other auction houses with online bidding. So, my small private auction house has a much wider audience now. On this occasion, a couple who had been in the antique trade for decades had passed away two years earlier, and their heirs were finally going through their inventory which included a vast room filled with dolls. I inquired about the 20-inch composition doll with the exquisite, yet soiled, costume. The auctioneer said, based solely on the markings on the back of the neck, that it was a 20-inch composition Effanbee doll. He was doubtful it would sell for very much due to the condition of the clothing. But I was intrigued. The clothing might be a total loss, but the composition doll was in excellent condition. I turned her over to look at the markings on her back and neck. The marking on her neck read: “Effanbee American Children,” and the marking on her back indicated: “Effanbee Anne Shirley.”
The staining covered the skirt of the gown, as well.
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The front of the 1760 Pre-Revolutionary gown after cleaning.
The back of the 1760 Pre-Revolutionary gown after cleaning.
Happily, my anxiety faded away as the internet hammer fell on my $75 bid. I must have been the only one who saw the hidden beauty in her. And I was thrilled! On Monday, I drove to the auction house to pick up my two treasures. As I was walking out, Nils stopped me to bring my attention to two more dolls with the same face mold. One was another 20-inch Effanbee with the Dewees Cochran face mold, wearing an exquisite lavender gown. Perhaps the clothing on my newly purchased doll was original because this doll’s costuming was of the same caliber. However, unlike my doll, her clothing was in good condition with only small areas of age-related yellowing. The other was a 16-inch doll with a similar face mold. Research mode went into overdrive. What are these dolls, I wondered? I felt that they were special, but I would have to wait a month to bid on this second doll. In the meantime, my latest purchase was going to 36
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take considerable effort to bring her stained clothing back to, hopefully, what it once was. I spent the following three weeks carefully soaking my doll’s numerous layers of clothing. What did I have to lose, I thought. Either the stains came out or I dressed her with vintage replacement clothing. When the next auction came up, I won the two dolls Nils mentioned to me—the 20-inch Effanbee as well as the 16-inch doll with a similar face. In the meantime, I had posted my first-won Effanbee doll on the United Federation of Doll Clubs’ Facebook page, proudly wearing her now almost-pristine gown. My determination to restore the gown had been rewarded. Almost immediately, members of the UFDC group informed me of what I had—a rare (only three were made of each clothing style) 1939 Effanbee Historical Exhibition doll. And now I own two! In 1939, Effanbee produced a new concept in their
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The Effanbee Historical 1840 Covered Wagon doll was acquired at a later auction. The Effanbee Historical 1760 Pre-Revolutionary doll (left) stands beside the Effanbee Historical 1840 Covered Wagon doll (right).
doll line—The Historical Doll Series. The company produced three sets of thirty dolls costumed in period clothing to represent American fashions from 1492-1939. They were originally produced to reflect the progression of fashion over time, to make history easy to learn, and to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington. Effanbee created the 20-inch dolls using Dewees Cochran’s body design and four of her head designs. Their clothing is very detailed and sewn from the finest of fabrics. Both dolls wear a beautifully designed gown, full underslip, lacetrimmed pantaloons, and thigh-high stockings. Their human hair wigs and leather shoes augment their couture appeal. It is estimated that each set of Historical dolls cost about $10,000 to manufacture in 1939. Although the 20-inch Historical dolls were not for sale, the company offered a smaller, 14 ½-inch souvenir doll that was similar to the Historical dolls but used less expensive fabrics. These dolls used the Anne Shirley mold
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and came with a pamphlet describing the period they represented as well as the style of the costume. My doll with the restored dress represents 1760—the Pre-Revolutionary Period. Her included history describes our country’s chafing under the rule of England. Her dress is described as having a pointed bodice both front and back with long full skirts and a long sweeping train. She wears a white human hair wig in the style of the powdered wig favored during that period. My second doll represents 1840—Covered Wagon Days. Her American history includes the purchase of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Gold was discovered in California and encouraged the influx of covered wagons to that state. Her costume is described as displaying a profusion of lace and an accented waistline with copious gathers of the skirt promoting a tiny waist. Both dolls wear their Effanbee heart bracelets. Despite both having the same American Children Dewees Cochran face mold, they differ a bit—due to the way the mouth was painted or the way the human hair wig frames the face. My research to identify and learn about these dolls was extensive yet the resources were limited. My search included the internet, collectors on the UFDC Facebook page, and an informative book by Nancy Carlson entitled The Elegance of Effanbee. This book is out of print but is readily available on the internet. There was a November 1939 advertisement placed in Playthings that announced, “An amazing collection of thirty dolls! … a group conceived by a twenty-fouryear-old designer who found history hard to learn.” It is interesting to note that Dewees Cochran created a set of six dolls called Little Maids of America that were costumed in different period clothing. The artist also promised to show Effanbee her latest creations before approaching other companies. One could speculate that somehow these dolls might have influenced Effanbee to create the Historical Doll Series. The exhibition dolls and the replicas are difficult to find. The exhibition dolls were sold to private collectors a few years after their tour was completed. The replicas were produced in larger numbers but are still difficult to find. As for that vague memory of the doll’s importance at the first auction preview… I remembered that a few years ago, UFDC had presented a display of the Effanbee Historical dolls at its Nashville convention, and I had been privileged to view it twice. I was amazed at the detail of the dolls and their costumes. Perusing each doll carefully in that incredible display, I was aware that I was witnessing American
Proud owner, Debbie Bigness, poses beside her Effanbee Historical 1840 Covered Wagon doll during the 2023 UFDC Convention.
history combined with couture—thoughtfully produced 84 years ago by a company called Effanbee. Last summer the UFDC convention was held in Bellevue, Washington. There was a category for my Historical Exhibition dolls—”Effanbee American Children.” The theme for the convention was based on the covered wagon journey of the Donner Party. So, my 1840s Historical doll representing the “covered wagon era” was perfect for not only the competitive category but, also for the theme of the convention. Flying from Tampa, Florida to Seattle, Washington was a lengthy trip to hand-carry a 20-inch, 84-year-old doll, yet, it was certainly worth the effort. When the judging was completed and the competitive entries were awarded their ribbons, I was overwhelmed to discover my 1939 Effanbee Historical Exhibition doll had garnered the President’s Choice Award. I was ecstatic and speechless. And, I have not come down from Cloud Nine yet. (For further information on the Effanbee Historical Doll Series, refer to the award-winning book Dewees Cochran: The Artist and her Dolls by Ann M. Leis, deweescochranbook.com, reviewed in the October 2022 issue of Antique DOLL Collector.) ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR
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hen the average person thinks of a boyfriend doll, they immediately think of Mattel’s Ken, but if you were a girl in the 1950s or 1960s other names come to mind—Bob, Jeff, Bud, and even Dennis the Menace if you bend the rule a little. Other male dolls of the era included fathers and brothers. Throughout history, most dolls had been female. Raggedy Ann was created by author Johnny Gruelle and the P.F. Volland Company manufactured Raggedy Ann,
The 1961 bubble cut Barbie is with her boyfriend molded hair Ken, 1962. Ken is wearing Goin’ Huntin’ while Barbie is featured in Enchanted Evening. They are posed with cardboard furniture from Barbie’s Dream House, 1962.
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a 15-inch rag doll with red yarn hair in 1915. Her brother Andy was introduced in 1920 after Gruelle saw his young sons playing with their sister’s Raggedy Ann. Though the Volland company closed in 1934, variations of Andy and his sister have been continuously sold by numerous companies, making Andy the most beloved brother doll of all time. In 1948 Herman Cohen, doll manufacturer since the 1920s, came out with a composition brother and sister, Puzzy and Sizzy, to go along with their extremely popular The Good Habit Kits. The kits were boxed toiletries such as talcum powder, toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, and shampoo. The jointed dolls were 15 and 14 inches tall, had cartoonish faces and molded hair. Puzzy is often found, but his sister is much rarer. Madame Alexander manufactured many sets of twins that included a brother and sister, over the years. Two sets with adult couples were created, a Queen Elizabeth bride doll and a Prince Phillip groom in 1947 and Cinderella and Prince Charming dolls in 1950. They were hard plastic with jointed bodies and all four used Barbie’s friend Midge is from 1963, and with her boyfriend Allan, 1964. They are standing with the Margaret face mold. We will the cardboard Hi-Fi from Barbie’s Dream House, assume they were boyfriend 1962. Allan is sporting Fun on Ice and Midge is dolls before they married. wearing Friday Nite Date.
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In 1952 Alexander created Little Men dolls from Louisa May Alcott’s book of the same name. The 14-inch brother dolls were of hard plastic with jointed bodies and wigs. They were named Stuffy, Nat , and Tommy Bangs. Stuffy and Nat used the Maggie face mold, while Tommy used the Margaret face. Madame Alexander offered many male dolls over the years, and in 1969 created a Peter Pan series made of vinyl with rooted hair. It included Wendy and her brother Michael, Peter Pan, and Tinker Bell. The Glad Toy Company, in 1953, created a Dennis the Menace doll from the newspaper comic strip character created by Hank Ketcham. Dennis was 17 inches tall, had a vinyl head with molded yellow hair, and his famous cowlick. In the comic, Dennis’ neighbor, Margaret, had a crush on him. By the late 1950s, Hall Syndicate produced Dennis and Margaret hand puppets. Over the years, several companies have produced Margaret and her unwilling boyfriend, Dennis, in numerous materials and sizes. Uneeda marketed a Wee Three set of dolls that included a mother, little girl, and baby brother. The mother doll was similar to their other large fashion dolls and was 18 inches tall. She and the daughter had rooted hair while the baby brother had molded hair.
Barbie’s little sister, 1964 Skipper, with Ricky issued in 1965. Furniture and props from Barbie’s Dream House, 1962, enhance their scene.
The 1959 Sears Christmas catalog features Dennis the Menace by Menlo Park and Effanbee’s Mickey Doll.
Uneeda’s Boyfriend Bob with flame Suzette are wearing original outfits, 1957.
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The Littlechap Family by Remco were featured in the Sears Christmas Catalog, 1963. They include father Dr. John Littlechap, wife Lisa, and daughters Judith and Libby.
Tiny Chatty Baby and Tiny Chatty Brother by Mattel were shown in the 1965 Sears Christmas Catalog.
Tammy’s family by Ideal includes younger sister Pepper, older brother Ted, mother, and father, in the 1964 J.C. Penney’s Christmas catalog.
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Full page advertisement from Playthings magazine February 10, 1959, shows Vogue’s Ginny and her sister Jan with friend Jill. Also shown is Jeff who could be used as a brother or boyfriend according to Vogue.
1958 magazine advertisement introducing Ginny’s baby brother, Jimmy.
Effanbee produced a popular freckle-faced boy doll, Mickey. He was sold alone from 1956–1972 and varied from 10 to 11 inches tall. He was all vinyl, had a jointed body, painted eyes, freckles, and molded hair. He was sold in many outfits including an example in shorts, boxing gloves, sporting a black eye. He was not advertised as a brother until Effanbee marketed their Most Happy Family gift set in 1957. It contained a mother, Mickey, sister Fluffy, and an infant doll. Mattel was fond of brother dolls adding Tiny Chatty Brother to the Chatty Cathy family in 1962 as a twin to Tiny Chatty Baby. The toddlers wore matching one-piece, pale blue playsuits. Mattel made two 16-inch talking rag dolls with yarn hair, Sister Belle in 1961 followed by her brother Matty. They were similar in design to Mattel’s Casper the Friendly Ghost and Wendy Witch dolls which also talked. Mattel continued the brother theme in 1976 with brother and sister musical sensation, Donnie and Marie Osmond. They were 11½ inch fashion dolls with a full stage. They were extremely popular because of their television show, hit songs, and extensive wardrobes. The Sunshine Family, also by Mattel, was sold from 1974 to 1978. It consisted of a mother, father, daughter, baby, grandma, and grandpa. The men were identical at 91⁄2 inches tall, except Grandpa had gray hair and beard. The dolls were available in both a white family and a black family. Vogue featured male dolls early on by adding several brother dolls, including Jack and Hansel, to their admired Toddles Storybook line in 1943. Also issued in the same year, Vogue’s America on the March to Victory series included boy dolls as an Air Warden, Army Air Corp, sailor, and in various army uniforms. There was also a Mr. America dressed as Uncle Sam. In the next few years, Vogue issued a cowboy, preacher, fireman, and other male dolls. They were not designated as brothers or boyfriends, but surely little girls added them to their collections as such.
Mattel’s Sunshine Family magazine advertisement, 1975. The family includes Baby Sweets, Mother Steffie, Father Steve, Grampa, and Grandma.
In 1990, Mattel’s Skipper was given a new “cool teen boyfriend” named Kevin.
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Donny and Marie Osmond dolls by Mattel, 1978, in original outfits.
Sunshine Family’s Grampa sold by Mattel.
Vogue seemed to think that family was important to the girls who owned their immensely popular Ginny doll. They added a baby sister, Ginnette in 1955, and Ginnette’s twin brother, Jimmy, in 1958. Jimmy was an 8-inch vinyl doll, identical to Ginnette but usually without painted eyelashes. He was a failure and was only produced for one year even though he had six outfits and sold for a dollar less than Ginnette. As time passed trends changed and soon little girl dolls were passe and glamorous teenage dolls were all the rage. Companies were mass producing teen dolls with elegant clothing to compete with Ideal’s Little Miss Revlon. In 1957, Vogue introduced their 10½ inch hard plastic teen, Jill, as Ginny’s older sister. In 1959 they added a teenage boy, Jeff, to the to the family as Jill’s brother, but soon he was described as a boyfriend for either Jill or her friend, Jan, who was also released in 1959. One Vogue brochure stated, “We introduce this new 11-inch, all-vinyl teen-age boy for Jill or Jan, or a brother for Ginny.” Jeff had black molded hair, sleep eyes, and a qualitymade wardrobe. It included casual clothes, a tuxedo, uniforms for football and baseball, swimming attire, and a cowboy outfit with a holster and guns. Jeff also wore skating and skiing clothes complete with ice skates, skis, and poles. Jeff cost $3.00, but unfortunately, he was not well received and is now thought to have a plain face and big head by collectors. Vogue decided to end production in 1960. A similar doll was sold by Uneeda in 1957 and labeled Tiny Teen Bob. He was the boyfriend of their fashionable 44
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Topper Toy’s boyfriend doll Gary with Maureen and Angie, 1972, from the Dawn series.
doll, Suzette. Bob was 11 inches tall, all vinyl with molded brown hair and sleep eyes. Uneeda sold an extensive clothing line for Bob with sports uniforms, a tuxedo, and casual outfits. Bob and Suzette were sold at W.T. Grants. Woolworth sold a knockoff teenage boy doll of less quality named Jim. Though Bob and Jeff were fine boyfriend dolls, without a doubt the most famous of all were manufactured by Mattel which took the lead on boyfriend dolls with Ken, Barbie’s beau, and Allan the boyfriend of Barbie’s best friend Midge. Through the years Ken and Allan changed. In 1961 they were collegiate guys with short hair and tennis outfits. By the 1970s they were tanned surfers with disco outfits and long rooted hair. After dating for decades, Midge and Allan were finally married in 1990. Barbie’s little sister, Skipper was given a male friend, Ricky, in 1965, but he was not called a boyfriend by Mattel. When Skipper became a teen doll in 1980 her first official boyfriend was Scott. Skipper’s looks, styles, and boyfriends have changed over the years, including boyfriends Kevin and Zach. Continuing with the boyfriend theme, Mattel issued three female 6½ inch Rock Flower dolls in 1971 dressed in mod fashions. Soon they added a boyfriend doll, Doug. The dolls were Mattel’s answer to the extremely popular Topper Dawn series which were also 6½ inches tall and came with an array of stylish outfits. The Dawn collection began with Dawn and several friends in 1969 but soon included a group of friends with four as boyfriends— Gary, Van, Ron, and Kevin.
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Ideal also got into the marketing mix with teenage Tammy, 1962 to 1966. Tammy was a 12-inch vinyl doll with rooted hair and painted eyes. She had a less shapely body than the previously chic fashion dolls. Ideal continued with the male doll trend in 1963 by adding a brother and father for their teenage Tammy doll. The family also had a mother and younger sister named Pepper. Tammy’s Dad, Mr. Turner, was 12½ inches tall and extremely sophisticated. He had molded hair with graying temples and a painted face. Tammy’s older brother, Ted, was also 12½ inches tall with molded hair and a painted face. Ted arrived at stores in 1964, followed by 8-inch little brother, Pete. Ideal gave Tammy a boyfriend, Bud, in 1965. Bud looked like Ted and was even sold in the same striped knit shirt, tennis shoes, and shorts. The dolls are often confused because their faces are the same. The difference is the body and when placed side by side, Bud is more muscular. It is said his body was copied from the G.I. Joe doll. Bud was only manufactured for one year and is the most difficult to find. Recently Bud in played-with condition sold on eBay for $900.00, while a mint-in-box Ted sells for approximately $100.00. Not to be outdone by Mattel, Remco got into the family doll market in 1963 with the Littlechaps. They included father, Dr. John Littlechap, wife Lisa, teenage daughter, Judy, and young daughter, Libby. A 1964 brochure described them as, “An upscale American Family.” They had an extensive wardrobe but were not well received
Ideal Father, Brother Ted, and Tammy. Father and Ted are wearing original outfits that both dolls could wear, while Tammy is decked out in School Daze.
because of their size. They towered over other fashion dolls of the time with the father at 14½ inches tall and the teenage daughter at 12 inches, which meant she could not share the clothing of other fashion dolls. As a child of the 1950s and early 1960s, I loved the romance of my Barbie and Ken. Barbie with her short black bubble cut hairstyle and dressed in her pink “Enchanted Evening” gown, pearls and fur stole dazzled Ken. While rugged Ken with his molded crewcut was usually dressed in his hunting attire complete with a plastic rifle. Midge, Allan, Skipper, and Ricky looked on as Barbie and Ken dated. Finally, in a white crocheted gown made by my grandmother, Barbie walked down the aisle to a smiling Ken. An interesting article in Forbes magazine, February 2, 2022, told of a study by neuroscientists at Cardiff University that evaluated the merit of playing with dolls and found value in doll play in child development of social and language skills. It also mentioned a study at Harvard University that revealed that children learn to express thoughts, emotions and promote empathy while playing with dolls. As young girls we never imagined that as we paired our girl dolls with fathers, brothers and boyfriends we were also enhancing our relationships with others. As I recall, Ken was always my dream date when my friends and I played the Barbie board game, Queen of the Prom. Now I wonder if perhaps Ken influenced my infatuation with my husband 44 years ago. q
Doctor John Littlechap by Remco, father to Judith and Libby is wearing his original doctor’s uniform, 1963.
Proving that boyfriend dolls are still all the rage, current best-selling boyfriend doll Zed with his high school sweetheart, Addison, from Disney’s Zombies 3, 2022.
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