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Knickerbocker Toy Company - Dolls 1925 - 1983

The Knickerbocker Toy Company was founded in New York city in 1925 by Leo L. Weiss, they are probably best known for their Walt Disney character dolls and Raggedy Ann & Andy and the cloth Holly Hobbie dolls.  Dolls are of good quality, made of cloth, composition and vinyl.  Knickerbocker was sold to Hasbro in 1983.                    

Here's some of the Knickerbocker dolls we have found 1925-1983:

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1937 Snow White, 13-15 or 20" tall, all composition with fully jointed body, black mohair wig or shiny black molded hair with a painted blue ribbon, sleep eyes or painted side glancing eyes and painted facial features, open or closed mouth, marked: Snow White Walt Disney/ Knickerbocker Toy Company/New York.

 

Doll face on left is wigged, doll shown on right has the molded shiny hair with a blue painted ribbon.

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1937 Snow White, 15"

1937 Dwarf, 9" tall, Snow Whites seven dwarfs are; Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, all composition jointed at shoulders only, painted hair, all the face molds are the same with different facial painting except Dopey, who also does not have a beard like all the others, have the characters name imprinted on the cap, marked: Walt Disney Knickerbocker Toy Co.   Note: Several other companies were authorized by Disney to also create their versions of Snow White & the Dwarfs - most of these have cloth bodies with a mask type face, Richard G. Krueger & Ideal + others.

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Bashful, 9"

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Doc, 9"

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Dopey, 9"

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Grumpy, 9"

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Happy, 9"

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Sleepy, 9"

 

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1937 Sneezy, 9"

ca. 1930's Sleeping Beauty, 15" tall, all composition with fully jointed body, blonde human hair wig, green sleep eyes closed mouth, came dressed in a blue & gold velvet dress with slip, panties, socks  & shoes.  Marked: Knickerbocker Toy Company/New York.

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ca. 1930's Sleeping Beauty, 15" 

ca. 1930's Blondie 11", Dagwood 13" & Alexander, 9", all composition, fully jointed, Blondie has sleep eyes, closed mouth, with blonde mohair wig.  Dagwood & Alexander have molded hair & painted facial features.  Based on the Blondie comic characters created by Murat Bernard "Chic" Young 1930-1973. Blondie is unmarked. 

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ca. 1930's Blondie 11"

ca. 1930's Disney Characters; Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio & Donald Duck, 10" tall, all composition, jointed, painted facial features usually marked: Character's Name/W.D.PR.ZKN. T. Co. USA, Walt Disney/Knickerbocker/Character's Name/King Syndicated/Knickerbocker.

Disney Character;

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ca. 1930's Pinocchio 10"

ca. 1930s Katzenjammer Kids, 13-16" tall, all cloth, painted hair, applied ears, glass stationary eyes, closed  mouth, unmarked except for a wrist tag: Katzenjammer/Kids/Fritz/ Knickerbocker/Toy, Co. Inc./New York Toy Co. Inc./New York/Licensed by King Features Syndicate Inc.

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ca. 1930s Katzenjammer Kids, 13-16"

ca. 1950's Snow White Dwarf's 14" tall, all cloth body with hard plastic or heavy oil cloth mask face, fainted facial features, they are dressed similar to the earlier composition Dwarfs  but on these the clothing is part of the body, mohair wigs, hat with the character's name imprinted.   Dwarf's names are: Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy.  These Dwarf's are unmarked but had a wrist tag.    

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ca. 1950's Snow White Dwarf's 14"

ca. 1965 Beloved Belindy, 18" tall, all cloth doll.

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ca. 1965 Beloved Belindy, 18"

ca. 1955 Pouting Bear, 10" tall, brown plush stuffed body with brown & white striped cloth tummy, plastic pouting face with closed eyes.  Cute, too cute!

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ca. 1955 Pouting Bear, 10" 

ca. 1970's Holly Hobbie, 12" all cloth, yellow yarn hair, imprinted facial features blue eyes with smiling closed mouth wore a calico printed dress and matching bonnet, marked on clothing tag: Holly Hobbie/Knickerbocker Toy Co. Inc.  (KTC marking).  Based on a character from the American Greetings Corporation.

Other dolls in this series are Amy, Carrie, Heather, & Robbie Hobbie. There were other sizes issued and a variety of other products as well.  

Doll has been reissued recently.

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ca. 1970's Holly Hobbie, 12"

ca. 1970's Little Lulu, 18" tall, all composition, fully jointed

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ca. 1970's Little Lulu, 18"

1977 Little Orphan Annie & her dog Sandy, 16" tall

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1977 Little Orphan Annie, 16"

1982 Annie, Daddy Warbucks, Miss Hannigan & Punjab, 7" tall, vinyl heads with plastic body some have rooted hair or molded, are marked 1982 CPI Inc. 1981 CTNYNS Inc./1982 Knickerbocker Toy Co. Inc. H-22.

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1982 Punjab, 7"

Knickerbocker Toy Company - Dolls 1925 - 1983

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