Wednesday, September 26, 2012

A Mystery Doll - Who Is She?


I purchased this doll recently.  She appeared in the picture on ebay to look like a Pre-Toni.  I knew immediately when I took her out of her packing box, she was not a Pre-Toni.  But, Who is she?  Pre-Toni's  are unmarked and so is this doll.  Following are more pictures of her.  If you know who she is, please let me know. 

More Pictures


My mystery doll now has legs.  Beside her are two Ideal Toni heads that I need bodies for.  The body on my mystery doll has a body that looks like a P-90 Toni body, but is not marked.  All Toni P-90 heads and body parts are marked.

Now my mystery doll is all together.  She is very pretty, but has no identity.  WHO IS SHE?

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Identifying Dolls

Can you help me identify my doll and what is it worth?
From time to time I visit many of the doll web sites, chat rooms,
usenets, and hobby forums. This is a question I see posted many
times. There usually are not many answers.
Usually there are questions asking for more information. It is not
that people don't want to help, but the descriptions are usually not
clear and the doll marks are almost never given. Usually the person
does not know what the doll is made of or if the clothing is original
to the doll. To help identify a doll, you have to know the size of
the doll, what the doll is made of, all the markings on the dolls
head and body, a description of the clothing. It will then take a
lot of time going through books  looking for the doll marks, as they are
most important when identifing a doll. The best thing to do if you
have a doll you cannot identify is to go to the library and look thru
all the doll books and familiarize yourself with materials dolls are
made of.  If you collect dolls it would pay you to buy doll books that
help identify the kinds of dolls you collect. I have over a period
of many years amassed a large collection of doll books. You will be
more accurate by looking up the information yourself than relying on
someone else. It takes time to identify most dolls.  Some dolls can
be identified by a description and a lot more by a picture. But that
is usually the newer dolls. I have dolls I cannot identify, some I
have been looking for years to find out who they are. Dolls were
made by the manufacturers as playthings, not as collectors items. 
Therefore no accurate records have been kept on them. 
Ebay is another source to identify dolls.  Go to the doll listings and
look at the pictures.  All this takes a lot of  time, but there is no easy way to find
the identity of a mystery doll.  But AHHH!  The excitement when you do.

Mystery Dolls Awaiting Restringing

 
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Another Mystery Doll

This pretty doll was purchased at a local antique store.  She is hard plastic with a mohair wig.  She is approx 11" tall.  She was also unstrung when I purchased her.


Here she is all together again.  Isn't she pretty?  But
WHO IS SHE?
Another mystery unidentifyed doll.
 
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

I Went To A Few Garage Sales...

Look at what I bought.
This sofa was intended to be used as a door stop.  No, it is a
perfect doll scale sofa.  I even found some dolls to sit on it. It is covered in chintz and the pillows
and throw are in cotton.   The skirting is ribbon.
 
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I Found dolls




Surprise!  Surprise!  I found dolls.  I found three of the cutest porcelain dolls, a mama, little sister, and baby brother. These are some of the newer porcelain dolls, but cute.

 
 
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