Effanbee F & B Dolls Identified 1910s USA
“dolls that touch your heart”
Founded around 1910 in New York City, Effanbee stands for Fleischaker & Baum or F & B, the company founders last name initials. Effanbee was known for being the first to produce a realistically proportioned child doll named Patsy and a whole companion of family dolls. Patsy dolls have a clothing wardrobe and Patsy’s own fan club, reportedly with 275,000 members.
F & B also created the first hard rubber drink and wet doll named DyDee Baby. The Effanbee Company over it’s long doll making history, made dolls of composition, hard rubber, cloth, hard plastic and vinyl.
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Antique Effanbee Dolls Identified 1910s
1912-1929 Effanbee Baby Dainty doll 13, 15″ tall, composition shoulder head on a cloth stuffed body, blue painted eyes, open mouth with four teeth and felt tongue or closed mouth, molded painted hair or the 1913 version has a closed mouth, came with a pacifier, molded hair or wigged, a 1929 Baby Dainty mold has flirty eyes, wigged. Early dolls are marked Effanbee Dolls Walk Talk Sleep in an oval, after 1920 marked Effanbee Baby Dainty. Doll shown is the closed mouth version.
1912 Effanbee Billy Boy doll 15″ tall, copy of K & R bisque head doll mold 115 with a pouty mouth (boy or girl) a Fiamingo head mold, either doll has a closed mouths, flared composition head and short arms, cloth stuffed body, upper arms and straight legs with inside disks at hip joints and black sewn on boots, molded painted hair, painted blue eyes, puckered mouth with partial hole for whistling, squeaker inside body, doll mark 116, 364. Kathe Kruse and Horsman both made dolls with Fiamingo heads.
1912 Effanbee Johnny Tu Face doll a multi-face doll 15″ tall, composition flange head and short arms, cloth stuffed body and legs, molded painted hair, painted eyes, open mouth, two faces; one face is smiling, laughing the other is crying with a single molded tear beneath his left eye. Faces can be white or black or both colors on same doll, doll mark F + B NY or unmarked.
1915-1939 Effanbee Baby Grumpy doll or Grumpy doll 14 or 20″ tall, composition flange head, lower arms, cloth stuffed body, upper arms and legs, side glancing painted eyes, molded hair with a “grumpy” facial expression. Earliest dolls are marked on the head with the mold numbers 34, 104, 108, 172, DECO 174 or 176, later dolls marked Effanbee Dolls Walk Talk Sleep in an oval on the shoulder plate. Copy of a Gebrüder Heubach bisque head mold, with slight changes.
1915 Effanbee Betty Bounce doll 11-14″ tall, composition flange head and lower arms, inside disk jointed cloth body, jointed at shoulders and hips, molded painted hair with hair loop or a staple for a bow, painted eyes, closed mouth, doll marks 70, 72, 74, DECO, F + B – NY D with CO inside the D.
ca. 1915 Effanbee Boy doll 19″ tall, composition flange head, lightly molded painted brown hair, brown or blue painted eyes, open closed mouth with two uppers teeth and molded tongue, disproportionally small composition lower lower hands, cloth stuffed body with outside disks at shoulders and hip joints, cloth upper arms and legs, doll marked 7c.
1915 Effanbee Johnny Jones doll 13, 15, 22″ tall, flared composition head with molded painted curly hair, painted eyes, pouty closed mouth, short composition arms, cloth body with inside disk joints at shoulder and hips, doll 13″ tall doll mark 152, 15 1/2″ tall doll mark 156, 22″ tall doll mark 158. The Johnny Jones doll is a copy of K & R Hans doll mold 114.
1915 Effanbee Pouting Bess doll 12-17″ tall, head is a copy of K & R Gretchen doll mold 114, composition flange head with short lower arms and cloth body and legs with inside disk joints, sewn on boots or molded painted boots. On the small sized doll; all cloth body and limbs with inside disk joints, all sizes have molded painted hair, painted blue eyes, closed pouty mouth. Doll marked 162, 166 numbers have been found.
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1917-1923 and 1931 Effanbee Mary Jane doll, 16, 18, 20 or 24″ tall, all composition, ball jointed body, jointed at the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees and hips, moving sleep eyes some can be painted, real human hair wig, came dressed in various lace and ribbon trimmed voile dresses, doll marked Effanbee on back of neck and back. Only doll Effanbee sold that had an all composition ball jointed body. Mary Jane was also sold in 1921 by Sears.
In 1919 Effanbee commissioned the Lenox Pottery Company to produce bisque heads during WWI, when dolls from Europe were not available in the USA market. These dolls may not have been marketed or very few were produced, the same Lennox head molds were later made in composition and are considered very rare. The 1919 Mary Jane doll came on a German kidelene body with composition wood limbs with extra joints. 1919 Effanbee bisque head Baby dolls on composition bent limb bodies, heads by Lenox.
1918 Effanbee Bathing Bud or Bathing Girl Dolls 7-8″ tall, novelty doll, all composition one piece chubby baby body, head jointed only at the shoulder, molded hair girl has mohair wig, painted eyes, closed slight smiling mouth, both arms are bent at the elbow, dolls have a faint molding of a one piece union suit, straight legs molded together at the upper inner thigh, bare feet, doll marked Effanbee in script. Effanbee Baby Bud doll is a copy of an all bisque German Baby Bud doll.
The Effanbee Bathing Bud or Girl doll also came dressed as an Hawaiian and other novelty costumes.
Effanbee F & B Doll Marks, Doll Mold Numbers
DECO, FanB, F & B, F an B, F + B – NY Dco, F + B Dco 6cj NY, Effanbee, Patent Pending, 7c, 27c, 24, 34, 52, 54, 56, 58, 70, 72, 74, 102, 104, 106, 108, 116, 124N, DECO 144, 152, 156, 158, 162, 166, 176, 172, 174, 201, 303, 334, 364, 455, 462, 802.
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Additional Effanbee F & B 1910s Dolls not shown
1912 Effanbee Foxy Teddy Bear doll 14″ tall, composition flange head with composition molded painted boots, brown plush body jointed at shoulders and hips, painted green eyes, open mouth with upper teeth, Foxy Teddy Bear doll is unmarked and looks a bit more like a cat.
1912 Effanbee Coquette or Naughty Marietta dolls 12-15″ tall, composition flange head, cloth body, limbs and black cloth attached boots, molded painted curled hair, painted blue molded hair bow, painted brown side glancing eyes, closed smiling mouth with white line between the lips, some dolls marked DECO or 462. Character doll based on the 1910 operetta with songs by Victor Herbert and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young. Doll is a composition copy of Gebruder Heubach’s bisque head Coquette doll. Ideal Naughty Marietta coquette doll, is nearly identical with composition boots.
1915 Effanbee Baby Catherine doll 18, 24″ tall (possibly other sizes), composition shoulder head and lower arms, cloth body upper arms & cork stuffed bent limb baby legs jointed with inside disks, mohair wig, gray celluloid sleep eyes, closed mouth, doll marked Effanbee in script, came wearing a tagged christening gown with bonnet.
1915 Effanbee Baby Huggims doll 14″ tall (possibly others sizes), composition flange head and short arms with outside disks, cloth body and legs with sewn on black boots, painted molded hair, painted blue eyes, closed mouth, doll mark 24.
1915 Effanbee Aunt Dinah black doll 14-15″ tall, composition flared head (uses the Grumpy head mold with a smiling face), lower arms, cloth stuffed body, legs and upper arms, painted black hair, brown eyes, open mouth, doll marked 104, 106 backwards. 1915 Effanbee Brick Bodkins doll uses a similar head mold as Dinah doll mark 201.
1916 Effanbee Bright Eyes doll 15 1/2″ tall, composition head and hands, molded painted hair, painted side glancing eyes, closed mouth, cloth stuffed body, doll mark DECO 144. 1916 Effanbee Baby Bright Eyes Junior doll is 11″ tall, doll mark is unknown.
1918 Effanbee Dolly Dumpling doll 13″ (probably other sizes too), composition shoulder head, molded painted golden brown hair, painted facial features including eyes, whispy painted lashes, closed mouth, composition lower hands to elbow, cloth stuffed body & legs, disc jointed limbs, doll mark Effanbee.