Doll-A-Day 2023 #109 Petite Princess Kids

   We're going to the house today. I need to mow the grass again, and Ken says the lilacs are blooming. So I'm going to cut some for vases so I can still enjoy them here.

   Today's dolls are ones that I got, if I am recalling correctly, in a lot at a doll show last year. 

The whole tray of stuff was $5! There were loads of things. These little dolls were in it. I didn't realize for a while, but they are dolls from the Petite Princess line.

They are so cute!

  Petite Princess was a collection of dollhouse dolls, furniture, and dollhouses, by Ideal. It was made from 1964 to 1969. That would have been just my childhood era when I could have gotten a dollhouse...But I didn't. The family included a Mom, Dad, sister, and brother. The parents are 5 1/2 inches tall, but the kids are 3 3/4 inches tall.

  These guys are bendy, so they're posable.

They can sit.

 They have real cloth clothes, which aren't removable.

Her dress is sort of flocked velveteen, but this one is loosing it's flocking.

The kids have painted on shoes, but the Mom and Dad have real removable plastic shoes.

Hers used to be Mary Jane shoes.

  The little girl, like the Mom, has 'real' hair, while the boy and the Dad only have painted on hair.

Her hair is braided.

 She even has teensy tiny hair ribbons, and while I was photographing them one fell off! I found it, but I don't know if I can ever get it back on her.

  There were a few different Petite Princess dollhouse options. One was a vinyl covered cardboard case, like the old 60's doll cases, only much larger, that opened, with the lid becoming a courtyard.  That was sold in the middle of the line's run.

Reminds me of the house from The Money Pit. I got one of these at Salvation Army once. I don't have it any more.

Another was a huge dollhouse made of heavy cardboard. The other was a series called 'Petite Princess Fantasy Room'. 

You may have seen these pictures before, when I originally posted them in a doll show post.

There were several different rooms available, and they could be put together.

  Apart from the houses, the Petite Princess furniture was really nice. The original full set consisted of 30 pieces. Some of it was so realistic.  The chaise lounge and the beds and some of the chairs were covered in satin. 

As you can see, there were also chairs in brocade fabric.

The chaise and bed had tiny satin bolster pillows. There was furniture inset with red velveteen and trimmed in gold.

This was some schnazzy stuff. Supposedly it was hand decorated.

The living room furniture included tables with faux marble tops and a fireplace with a faux marble front and hearth. There was a grand piano with a 'mural' inside the lid, a grandfather clock with 'murals', and a real brass planter. 

 These Petite people had some cash. And the real people who bought the stuff had to have some cash too. Those sets weren't cheap for those days.

  There were later sets, called Princess Patti, which may be the ones that included the yellow kitchen appliances. (I guess rich people don't need a kitchen.)  

And there's our girl. She's Princess Patti.

  The yellow kitchen china cupboard had a Formica looking shelf and a little bowl of fruit and some plates. The fridge opened to real moving shelves and tiny crisper drawers. 

I think the house pictured is the cardboard one.

  I've had some of the Petite Princess furniture, and the problem with it, at least now days, is that a lot of the white furniture tends to be melted in places, or broken. It wasn't heavy duty plastic. Sometimes the glue has started to go brown and show, or come unstuck on the satin furniture. The murals, which are just paper stickers, have sometimes started to fall off the piano and the grandfather clock. The red velveteen can get gluey brown looking places too. So if you get any Petite Princess furniture, make sure what condition it's in before you buy.

  There's a page with lots of information about Petite Princess, which you can find HERE.

  Those are today's doll. More to come tomorrow.