Today's doll is part of a 2002 series of Kelly dolls called Barnum's Animals Crackers.
Better known as just 'animal crackers', the 'crackers' in question are the little animal shaped cookies that come in the little boxes that look like the wagons circus animals used to be hauled in.
There were three dolls in the series: Jenny as the tiger, Kayla as the lion, and Kelly as the elephant. The boxes were made to look like they were circus wagons too, with wheels. The box also has a string handle, like real boxes of animal crackers. |
| Why didn't Kelly have to paint her nose? And what happened to her shoes? |
Kelly is wearing an elephant costume with a completely vertical trunk, and big ears lined in pink.
The bottoms of the pant legs have black elephant toenails on them. And all the dolls came with a mini animal cracker box. That's it for today. See you again tomorrow.
I love the smiles on these dolls. Were they made for collectors or for children?
ReplyDeleteThe boxes look like they might be keepsakes but I guess children could play with them.
Made for kids, but collectors liked them too.
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