ca. 1940's Buddy Lee, 12 1/2',

The Genuine Jiffy Steamer outfit,

all composition doll.

Buddy Lee dolls were made by the  H. D. Lee Company Inc. (Lee Jeans), a garment manufacturer in Kansas City, MO USA, originally from 1920-1960 as an advertising doll for their clothing. 

They can be composition (1920-1948) at 12 1/2" tall or hard plastic (1949-1960) dolls at 13" tall, have molded lightly painted hair, painted side glancing eyes, painted upper eyelashes, painted closed  watermelon mouth, jointed only at the shoulders, have black painted boots and were dressed in original Lee clothes depicting various occupations.  

Dolls are marked on their back: Buddy Lee.

ca. 1940's Buddy Lee, 12 1/2",

Football Player outfit,

 all composition

1920-1931 Chubby Kid 12 1/2",

all composition, jointed only at the shoulders, unmarked, molded painted hair or wigged, some have a paper label on bottom of foot, Gem - Chubby Kid - looks quite similar to the marked Buddy Lee dolls.

Made by both Columbia Doll & Toy Company and Gem Toy Company.

Some of the Buddy Lee outfits are; Coca Cola (white with red stripes), Football Player, Gas Station; Phillips 66, John Deere outfit, The Genuine Jiffy Steamer Co., Train Engineer, U.S. Army Finance Corps. cowboy,  and there were surely others.

Clothing should have a Lee label tag.

In the 1990's a reproduction or re-introduced Buddy Lee doll (s) in a Coca Cola uniform, now in white with a green stripe was reintroduced and possibly other outfits, too.

1940s Buddy Lee, 12 1/2",

U.S. Finance Corps cowboy doll,

all composition doll, jointed only at the shoulders, with black painted cowboy boots

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