HISTORY OF
DOLLS
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hospital and teddy
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I have built up an extensive knowledge of the
history of dolls and will share some of that knowledge on these
pages.I will endeavour to change the content regularly, so keep
viewing.
My Dream Baby - 1920's
-1930's
This version of the baby or infant doll
was made by Armand Marseilles in the mid twenties. There are
various mould numbers. Number 341,sometimes referred to as "Our
pet" ,has a bisque socket head with closed mouth and bent
limb composition body.Number 351, sometimes referred to as
"Kiddiejoy", has an open mouth with moulded bottom teeth.
The heads are solid-dome bisque with molded and/or painted hair
and sleep eyes.Although every head was cast from the same
moulds the hand painting of the features makes each one look
slightly different. Three other colours of

head were produced,
described brown, cream and black.Various body types are
found, these are; composition body, hard stuffed jointed cloth
body or soft stuffed cloth body.The heads were produced in the
following sizes:-
8-9inches,
10 inches
12-13 inches
15inches
accompanied by the appropiaterly sized
body
The picture
above shows a typical mark for a mould number
351
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