Alexander 1923-1936 Antique Dolls Identified USA

The Alexander Doll Company was founded in 1923 and is still in operation today in New York, NY USA. In 1928 a high quality line of dolls were produced and advertised as “Madame Alexander” and is the name now commonly associated with Alexander dolls.

Alexander dolls were produced with only a few different face molds. Each dolls originality lies in the v costume it wore. If your doll is not in the original outfit, has no wrist tag or box – it’s nearly impossible to know exactly, who the character doll originally was.

Early cloth, wood or composition dolls may be marked or unmarked and should have a clothing tag of the dolls character name, Madame Alexander, New York USA sewn into a seam.

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1923-1940 Alexander Cloth dolls 7-30″ tall, all cloth dolls with mask face, side glancing painted eyes, yarn hair.  Dolls are unmarked but clothing usually had a Madame Alexander tag. Shown is a 1938 Alexander Bobby Q cloth doll 12″ tall, red curly short yarn hair, side glancing eyes, closed mouth.

1933-1939 Alexander Silly Symphony Three Little Pigs animal dolls 11″ tall, all composition, jointed bodies, painted black eyes an brown lashes, open smiling mouth with red tongue, Pig doll marked Madame Alexander.  Licensed by Walt Disney.  Clothing will have a Madame Alexander tag.  Wore suspender shorts or long pants, cotton shirt, felt stitched mittens, white sailor cap with grosgrain ribbon trim and leather two tone shoes shaped like hooves.  In 1997 Alexander reproduced the Silly Symphony Three Little Pig dolls.

Other 1923+ Alexander cloth dolls are: Alice In Wonderland doll, Cherub Babies doll, Bell and Beau Brummell, Baby Genius, Dionne Quintuplets, Doris Keane, Grace Alice, Edith with Golden hair, Pitty Pat, Tippit Toe, Red Riding Hood, Laughing Allegra, Hiawatha, McGuffey Ana, Playmates, Little Shaver, Susie Q, Goldilocks, Alexander Rag Time, So-Lite, Country Cousins, Cuddly, Baby Blue Boy, Charles Dickens characters, Evangeline, Priscilla, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, Little Lord Fauntleroy and many others.

1935+ Alexander Dionne Quintuplets dolls 7-24″ tall, five baby or toddler body type dolls, some are all composition or composition  head, limbs with cloth body, molded painted hair, some with a wig, doll mark  Dionne, Alex, Alexander, and/or the dolls name.  Each Dionne doll had a clothing color associated with her as follows:  Annette – yellow, Cecile – green, Emelie – lavender, Marie – blue, Yvonne – pink.

1935 Alexander Betty doll face 13-22″ tall and Dr. DaFoe doll, 14″ tall and Nurse Yvonne Leroux doll 13″ tall, the Dionne Quint’s nurse, composition head and limbs, painted eyes, smiling mouth with a chin dimple, cloth body. The Alexander Dr. DaFoe doll has his own face mold, doll is unmarked and also came dressed as a priest or minister doll.

1935+ Alexander Betty face doll 13-22″ tall,  all composition, jointed body (neck, shoulders, hips), tin or sleep eyes, some have painted lower lashes, others have both upper and lower lashes painted, mohair wig, painted closed bow mouth with tiny dimples along side, dolls are unmarked, clothing will have the character name on tag.  More than thirty different Betty face characters were created including: Doctor DaFoe, Nurse Yvonne Leroux, Little Betty doll, Little Colonel doll (Shirley Temple) and the Princess Elizabeth doll.

1935+ Alexander Little Betty face doll 9-11″ tall, all composition, jointed body at neck, shoulders and hip, painted side glancing eyes, mohair wig, closed mouth.  Usually marked: Mme. Alexander NEW YORK and clothing will have the character name on the tag.   Some of the fifty Little Betty face character dolls are; Birthday  dolls, Bride dolls, Bridesmaid dolls, Dill Dolly Sally doll, International costumes; Swiss doll, Little Colonel doll, McGuffy Ana   doll, Princess Elizabeth  doll, Red Cross Nurse doll, Storybook characters; Bo Peep doll, Hansel & Gretel dolls, Virginia Dare  doll and  specialty outfits.

1935-1940s Alexander Tiny Betty face doll 7-8″ tall, all composition, one piece body & head, side glancing painted eyes, mohair wig, painted closed red mouth, painted on shoes & socks.  Usually marked: Mme. Alexander or Wendy Ann and clothing tag will have the character name on tag.  More than eighty different Alexander Tiny Betty doll characters were created from this doll face mold;  Alice, Ballerina, Belgium Bride, Bo Peep, Carmen, Cinderella, Dilly Dally Sally, Ding Dong Dell, Heidi, Little Women, McGuffy Ana, Pan American, Topsy-Turvey and more.

1935 Alexander Little Colonel doll a Shirley Temple look a like doll 8-27″ tall, all composition jointed socket head doll with brown sleep eyes an open mouth with teeth or a closed mouth Betty face mold in sizes 8, 11, 13, 17″, has cheek dimples, a blonde mohair wig, dolls are unmarked. In 1935 Madame Alexander patented the name Little Colonel, their dolls wore tagged outfits marked Trademark Little Colonel, Alexander Doll Co, New York – created from Shirley Temple’s “The Little Colonel” movie, based on author Annie Fellows Johnston 1896 The Little Colonel children’s book. Ideal Toys held the patent to licensed Shirley Temple dolls.

1935 Alexander Marionette dolls by Tony Sarg or Walt Disney Characters, 8-12″ tall, composition heads, body and lower limbs, doll usually marked Tony Sarg Alexander. More than forty different character dolls were created some are; Alice in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedle Dee & Dum, Gretchen, Hansel & Gretel, Sambo, and Walt Disney; Snow White, a Witch, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto.

1936+ Alexander Character Babies; Baby Genius, Baby Kitty, Baby McGuffey, Butch or Bitsey, Cookie, Little Genius, Precious, Princess Alexandria, Slumbermate 11-24″ tall, composition head, hands and legs, cloth stuffed body (some with criers) or composition jointed bent limb body, molded hair, wigged or both, painted or sleep eyes, open or closed mouth, doll marked on neck ALEX or ALEXANDER.  Same head mold as Horsman’s Baby Precious doll unmarked.

1936+ Alexander Pinky doll 16-23″ tall, composition head, hands and legs, stuffed cloth body, lightly molded painted hair, sleep eyes, closed mouth, doll mark ALEX or ALEXANDER.

1936+ Alexander Wendy Ann doll 9, 11, 13″ tall, with molded hair and or twist, swivel waist, 14, 18, or 21″ tall usually with a wig. All composition, fully jointed body, molded hair or wigged, some have the swivel waist, the 9″ tall size have painted eyes, other sizes have sleep eyes, all have a closed mouth, doll usually marked Wendy Ann or Wendy Ann Mme. Alexander New York.  

More than fifty-five different named dolls used the Alexander Wendy Ann face mold; Antoinette doll, Annie Laurie doll, Carmen doll, Fairy Queen doll, Little Lord Fauntleroy doll, Little Women dolls, Mary Louise doll, Mother and Me dolls, Princess doll, Queen Alexanderine doll, Rosetta doll, Scarlett O’Hara doll, Sonja Henie doll, Suellen dolls.

Alexander dolls < 1923+ > | 1937+ | 1940s | 1950+ | 1955+ | 1960s | 1970s