PD Smith American Beauty Dolls 1913+, Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh Dolls 1916+ USA
PD Smith American Beauty Dolls 1913-1922 USA
The American Beauty Doll Company, began making composition dolls during World War I (1914-1918), when bisque head German dolls became scarce, due to the war. This was a family run business of hand made artist dolls by Putnam David Smith, his wife Mabel Smith and young daughter Margaret Smith.
PD Smith American Beauty dolls were sold on the west coast of California. Each composition white and a few black dolls were hand made, unique and unmarked, most the dolls have cloth stuffed bodies, others have a composition ball jointed German type body.
Very few of these art dolls were made, sold or have survived, as it proved to be unprofitable to make the dolls and the short duration of the company.
PD Smith American Beauty Dolls Identified
ca. 1913-1922 PD Smith American Beauty flirty eyes girl doll, 22″ tall, composition shoulder head and limbs, stuffed cloth body, mohair wig, one stroke painted eyebrows, glass flirty eyes, painted upper and lower lashes, open smiling mouth with teeth, doll is unmarked.
ca. 1913-1922 PD Smith American Beauty Boy with flirty eyes doll, composition shoulder head and and limbs, stuffed cloth body, short mohair wig, one stroke painted eye brows, flirty side glancing googly eyes, open smiling mouth with two lower teeth, doll is unmarked.
ca. 1913-1922 PD Smith American Beauty Doll, Girl with flirty eyes doll, composition shoulder head and and limbs, stuffed cloth body, wig, one stroke painted eye brows, flirty side glancing googly eyes, open smiling mouth with teeth, doll is unmarked.
ca. 1913-1922 PD Smith American Beauty Girl with flirty side glancing googly eyes an open mouth, closed mouth with painted upper teeth, doll is unmarked.
All four composition shoulder head dolls are similar – but the PD Smith American Beauty dolls are not typical – they are more like a socket head attached to the shoulder plate which is affixed to the cloth body, thus the neck can swivel. These character dolls with flirty side to side googly eyes, winsome smiling mouths, are truly unique and unusual. What a delight to add these to your doll collection . . . if you could only find one.
PD Smith American Beauty Doll Company registered doll trade names; Baby Beautiful doll, Laughing Sonny Boy doll.
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Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh Doll Company 1916-1920 USA
Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh an artist, first success was from a cast metal statuette called the “Good Fairy”. Not long after she founded a small doll business in Chicago, Illinois called the Raleigh Doll Company who operated from 1916 to 1920.
Jessie produced light weight composition dolls from a specially developed formula. The dolls were created to resemble real children, Raleigh used student artists from the Chicago Art Institute to paint the dolls facial features with unique unforgettable eye lashes.
In 1920 the Raleigh Doll Company was acquired by the Pollyanna Doll Company who operated in Chicago from the early 1920s to about the early 1930s.
Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh Antique Dolls Identified
Raleigh dolls are 10 1/2 to 24″ tall, with three types of composition body construction
1. All composition socket head doll with a jointed composition body and steel spring joints.
2. Composition shoulder head doll, lower arm and leg limbs on a jointed cloth body with cloth limbs attached by an embedded metal spring with hardwood plugs.
3. Composition shoulder head doll with a cloth jointed body, cloth upper arms and composition lower arms, cloth lower legs attached with steel spring joints, sleep or painted eyes, one stroke almost straight across brown painted eyebrows, molded painted hair or wigged, dolls often have a curved hand, thus allowing them to hold an accessory.
All Raleigh composition dolls, multi-stroke eye lashes, are painted almost vertically instead of curved.
Raleigh made boy or girl dolls, Babies and dolly face dolls. The doll clothing was made by home workers, early dolls came either dressed or undressed.
Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh Doll Names Identified
Baby Brother doll,
Baby Petite doll,
Baby Sister doll,
Baby Stuart doll,
Bedtime Baby doll,
Betty Bonnet doll,
Big Mary doll,
Birthday dolls dressed as flowers,
Bobbie Burns Lassies doll,
Bye Bye Baby doll,
Curly Locks doll,
Daisy Anna doll,
Dearie doll,
Debutante doll,
Dorothy doll,
Doll-o’-My-Heart doll,
Elise doll,
Evelyn doll,
Goldilocks doll,
Helen doll,
Honey Bunch doll,
Jane doll,
Johnny Jump-Up doll,
Kiddie Kar Kiddie doll,
Kindergarten Girlie doll,
Little Miss Happy doll.
Little Lucille doll,
Little Pink Lady doll,
Little Playmate doll,
Little Princess doll,
Little Rabbit Lady doll,
Little Sherry doll,
Mama’s Angel Child doll,
Mammy Jinny doll,
Marjorie doll,
Mary-had-a-Lamb doll,
Mary Quite Contrary doll,
Miss Traveler doll,
Mother’s Darling doll,
My Favorite doll,
Nancy C doll,
Summer Girl doll,
Peeps the Fairy doll,
Polly doll,
Poppy doll,
Priscilla doll,
Red Riding Hood doll,
Rosemary doll,
Shoebutton Sam cloth doll,
Shoebutton Sue cloth doll,
Sonnie doll,
Stair Step Family three dolls,
Tiny Tot doll 18″,
Vacation Girl doll.
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