ca. 1916-1920s Dutch Boy and Dutch Girl, 11-20" tall, description still to come.

ca. 1916-1920s Dutch Boy 12"

ca.1916-1920s Indian, Native American, Papoose Baby dolls, 4-12" tall in their felt fringed carriers; German bisque, celluloid, all composition or composition and cloth dolls, painted eyes, closed mouth, painted molded black hair. Most of these dolls are unmarked, or it's unknown how marked due to the clothing and felt carrier that encloses them.  Most had a cloth tag attached;  Madame Hendren, Character Doll, Costume Pat. May 9th, 1916.

ca.1916-1920s Indian, Native American, Papoose Baby dolls

ca. 1918-1920s Indian, Native American, Black Dolls, and Cowboys, 13-20" tall, composition flared or shoulder head and cloth doll, partial or full composition limbs, usually with painted brown yes, closed mouth, black molded painted hair for boys, black mohair wig in braids some over molded hair for girls, dressed in felt Native American costume; tunic with fringe trimmed with beads, simple felt ribbon looped thru punched holes and tied for closure, pants or skirt with fringed, moccasin shoes, and headbands or feathered head dress as appropriate to the character or a felt fringed cowboy outfit with tunic and felt chaps.  They used several different dolls; neck markings are; Trion Toy Co  1915 or none on doll, a three leaf clover with initials R F L inside each leaf, A.M. © Co.  Bodies may have the ink stamp; Madame Hendren's Life Like Doll, Patented June 4th, 1918.

ca. 1920s Indian, Native American, 13"

ca. 1918+ Baby Georgene, 15-18 or 22-24" tall, Mama or baby dolls, composition head and limbs, cloth stuffed body with music box inside that plays "Lullaby Baby", molded hair and/or wigged, sleep eyes, closed mouth.   Doll is marked: Georgene Baby.

ca. 1920s Baby Georgene, 22"

ca. 1918+ Baby Hendren, 15-18 or 22-24" tall, Mama or baby dolls, composition head and limbs stuffed cloth body, molded hair, sleep eyes, open mouth.  Doll is marked: Baby Hendren

ca. 1920s Baby Hendren, 22"

1922 Dolly Reckord, 26" tall, composition shoulder head with a cloth body and a recorder, speaker mechanism in it's back, sleep eyes, wigged, open mouth.  Marked in ink on body: Genuine Madame Hendren Doll.

1922 Dolly Reckord, 26"

ca. 1924 Sis Hopkins, 13-14" tall, composition shoulder head and lower arms, cloth stuffed body upper arms and legs, stitched hips, molded hair with five rust colored yarn pigtails and tied with a green ribbon, black side glancing painted eyes, watermelon painted slight smiling mouth, designed by Grace G. Drayton Wiederseim.  Doll mark: G. G. Drayton ©.  Sis Hopkins was a character played by comedian Rose Melville (1873-1946).  Amberg also made a Sis Hopkins doll ca. 1912, who is marked with her name.

ca. 1924 Chocolate Drop, 13-14", uses the same head mold as the Sis Hopkins doll, now with brown composition head with five black yarn pigtails, brown cloth body, rest of doll is same as Sis.  Doll mark: G. G. Drayton ©. 

ca. 1924Sis Hopkins, 13-14"

1925 Lullaby Baby,13, 16, 18" tall, possibly other sizes, Bye-Lo type, composition or bisque flange head, tin sleep eyes, closed mouth, lightly molded painted hair, cloth body and limbs  with straight cloth legs, composition or celluloid hands. 

Head markings; AM © Co., AM Germany 341, Madame Hendren Doll or no marking.  Body ink stamp; Genuine Madame Hendren Doll 314 Made in  USA, Genuine Madame Hendren Doll 316, Made in USA.

1925 Lullaby Baby doll, 18"

1926-1929 Whistling Dolls, 14" tall, composition head and lower arms, cloth body - upper arms and legs, painted side glancing eyes, puckered open mouth with a hole for whistling, are unmarked or marked: USA with an ink stamp on the cloth body.  Names were: Dan, also came dressed as a Sailor, Cowboy or Nell.

1926-1929 Whistling Dan, 14"

1926-1946 Bonnie Babe, 12-24" tall, bisque or celluloid head with molded painted hair, cloth body, composition limbs - some have a composition body with bent limb arms, sleep eyes, open smiling mouth, with two lower teeth, marked: Copr. By Georgene Averill Germany  1005-3653 1386 or 1402 on head.  The bisque heads were made by Alt, Beck & Gottschalk or Kestner and imported from Germany.

1926 Bonnie Babe 5-7" tall, all bisque doll, jointed bisque body, molded painted hair, painted eyes, open mouth, molded painted shoes and socks.

1926-1946 Bonnie Babe, 18"

1927 Jimmie (boy) or Dimmie (girl), 14" tall, socket head with all composition jointed body with/or without body twist ball joint waist, molded painted hair, large painted eyes, dolls are unmarked but had a wrist tag.  We think both dolls are identical, but that the clothing determined the dolls name ie. dressed as a boy then it's Jimmie, a girl then it's Dimmie.

Note: These dolls were also sold by: Horsman, who called their doll Boots, the Maxine Doll Company named their doll Mitzi (she will be marked as such), and Sears called their doll Tootsie.  

To make a positive ID on the manufacturer, doll will need tagged clothing, it's original wrist tag, box or possibly some manufacturers may have had a marking on their doll.

1927 Jimmie doll, 14"

1927 Little Sister or Little Brother, 14" tall, composition shoulder head and limbs, cloth stuffed body, molded hair, painted eyes and lashes, painted closed watermelon mouth, based on artist and doll maker Grace Corry Rockwell.  Marked:  © By Grace Corry.

1927 Little Brother, 14" 

1927 Sunny Boy & Sunny Girl, 14, 17, 19, or 22" celluloid shoulder head with the turtle mark, a sunburst, + doll mold number,  Made in USA and the dolls name, a slender cloth stuffed body, composition limbs, molded hair, glass eyes.

1927 Sunny Girl, 17"

1928 Baby Brite, 18 or 22" tall, composition flange head and limbs, stuffed cloth body, molded painted blonde hair, gray celluloid sleep eyes, open mouth with two upper teeth, slight dimples on each side of mouth, can put it's right index finger in it's mouth, Effanbee Bubbles look a like or competitor (Bubbles can put her left finger in mouth, too).  Marked:  Madame Hendren Doll.

1928 Baby Brite, 22"

1928 Snookums, 14" tall, all composition with jointed body, white or black boy doll, painted tin eyes, open smiling mouth with two upper teeth, the black Snookums does not have a hair tuff on the top of his head.  Marked: Madame Hendren Doll.

1928 Snookums, 14"

1928 Girl doll, various sizes, composition shoulder head with cloth body, composition limbs, molded blonde hair, sleep eyes, open mouth. 

1928 Girl doll, 17"

ca. 1930s Baby Yawn, 19" tall, possibly other sizes too, composition flange head and hands, cloth stuffed body with straight legs, molded painted hair, squinting closed eyes, open yawning mouth.  Doll marked Georgene 49.  Looks like the Ideal or Horsman later dolls known as Squalling Baby.

ca. 1930s Baby Yawn, 19"

1930s Patsy types, 14-19" tall, composition shoulder head and limbs, cloth stuffed body or all composition head and jointed Patsy type body, molded painted hair, some have a pin hole for a hair bow just behind two small curls on top of head, tin sleep eyes or painted eyes, closed painted mouth. 

Big Peaches, 19" tall, (cloth body shoulder head, tin sleep eyes), Polly Peaches, 17", (all composition, tin sleep eyes), Peaches 16" or Bud 14", (composition shoulder head, gray tin sleep eyes) and a painted eye version doll was named Blossom Peaches 14", all composition jointed body whose shown at right. 

The largest size is marked: A.M. Co. Averill Manufacturing Co., other sizes could have a similar marking, ACO Inc., or are unmarked.

1930s Blossom Peaches, 14"

Patsy type

1934 Uncle Wiggily Longears, 20"

1937 Little Cherub, 12 or 16" tall, designed by Harriet Flanders, all composition, jointed body, molded painted hair, blue painted eyes with three upper painted eyelashes, open O mouth with painted tongue, marked on neck: Harriet © Flanders 1937.

1937 Little Cherub by Harriet Flanders, 12"

1938 Snooks a brunette or Sweets a blonde, 12-22" tall, printed cloth doll with painted face, painted or yarn hair, big eyes with real lashes, closed smiling mouth, usually marked at the seam, doll mark MTF. Based on accurate reproductions of artist Maud Tousey Fangel (1881-1968) illustrations.

Maud Tousey Fangel

1938 Sweets cloth doll 18"

1938-1962 Raggedy Ann 15-50" tall, all cloth rag doll with orangish-red yarn hair.

ca. 1940's Raggedy Ann 18"

1938-1962 Raggedy Andy, 15-50" tall, all cloth rag doll with orangish-red yarn hair.

ca. 1940's Raggedy Andy, 16"

1940's Little Lulu, 12 or 14" tall, all cloth doll with swivel head and painted mask face, black yarn hair, applied ears, closed mouth, usually unmarked but came with a hangtag.

Other Comic Characters were: Alvin, Becassine, Nancy, Sluggo, Tubby Tom.

1940's Little Lulu, 14"

1944-1951 Nancy, 12 or 14" tall, all cloth doll with swivel head and painted mask face, black yarn hair, applied ears, closed mouth, usually unmarked but came with a hangtag.

Comic character from cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy comic strip distributed by United Feature Syndicate .

1944-1951 Nancy, 14"

1944-1951 Sluggo Smith, 12 or 14" tall, all cloth doll with swivel head and painted mask face, yarn hair, applied ears, closed mouth, usually unmarked but came with a hangtag.

Comic character from cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy comic strip, distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Sluggo is Nancy's best friend.

1944-1951 Sluggo Smith, 14"

1958 Aver Baby, 18, 24, 26" tall, vinyl head with painted eyes, wide open smiling mouth with two lower teeth, dimples, molded hair, thin vinyl stuffed body and upper legs, crier, stitched hips, usually marked: Georgene Averill, may have a © 1958 on inside legs.

1958 Aver Baby, 24"