Everything I know I learned from Florence. And every auction I still learn something new. Thank you for continuing to share your knowledge with collectors everywhere. I so appreciate these wonderful videos!
Forgive me, but I had a thought about the question between "is this doll a woman or a child doll"? I am a Boomer. My love of dolls came the Christmas I was 6, in first grade. Santa brought me an adorable child doll...Vogue Ginny. (I still have her.) In 1987, I bought my newborn baby girl a remake; vinyl, not hard plastic and with less of a "toddler tummy." It had taken my mother six years to save for that doll. By the end of the 1950s, I was 9 and got a "Jill" doll. Actually, it's a P-90 clone that the shop foisted off on my mother who didn't know the difference. My "Jill" has the sweetest face, though, not quite a child, but not a true adult, either. (And yes I still have her, too.) Which brings me to my point. I have always thought that the adult clothing on dolls with their childlike faces and somewhat immature bodies was to introduce a little girl to her future without being too , er, graphic or specific.
Everything I know I learned from Florence. And every auction I still learn something new. Thank you for continuing to share your knowledge with collectors everywhere. I so appreciate these wonderful videos!
Florence, how can the garments of these wooden dolls look so great? Forgive me, but these dolls are at least 300 years old!
Forgive me, but I had a thought about the question between "is this doll a woman or a child doll"?
I am a Boomer. My love of dolls came the Christmas I was 6, in first grade. Santa brought me an adorable child doll...Vogue Ginny. (I still have her.) In 1987, I bought my newborn baby girl a remake; vinyl, not hard plastic and with less of a "toddler tummy." It had taken my mother six years to save for that doll. By the end of the 1950s, I was 9 and got a "Jill" doll. Actually, it's a P-90 clone that the shop foisted off on my mother who didn't know the difference. My "Jill" has the sweetest face, though, not quite a child, but not a true adult, either. (And yes I still have her, too.) Which brings me to my point. I have always thought that the adult clothing on dolls with their childlike faces and somewhat immature bodies was to introduce a little girl to her future without being too , er, graphic or specific.