Doll-A-Day #15 18 Inch Baby...and She's Free!

   Today's doll is another freebie! She's another childhood doll of the lady who would like to find good homes for her dolls, and is offering them for free. She has offered them to me free of shipping, but as we are still cleaning up from the fire, moving things around and rescuing and cleaning a lot of our own stuff, I really don't have anywhere to put more dolls right now. Since she will be shipping the dolls out individually instead, I do worry it will run her to more money than she's expecting. I hope not. It would be nice if you offered her something for postage if you adopt one or more of her kids. But she has not asked for anything. I will be keeping one tiny thing from the things this lady has, and I'll show you that in a minute. In the meantime, here's today's girl, She's this sweet baby.

She's so cute. I love her cozy footie pajamas!

She was measured by her owner at about 19 inches tall. But she is marked 18 5S2, so the 18 may be a reference to her size. Sometimes it's hard to know when measuring dolls: Do you mash the hair down? Do you measure to the top of poufy hair? I have an idea that her curl hair may have added that inch to her height, as when older dolls were marked this way, it's usually in reference to their size. For example, 1950's Ideal Shirley Temple dolls were marked ST, and then the height for that particular size doll, as Shirley came in various sizes.

Plus the toes of those jammies can be confusing too. As you can see, she has sleep eyes.

As I said, she's marked 18 5S2. There's no makers mark. (Of course there's no Maker's Mark! She's too young to drink!)

  I looked up the markings though, and found that she's an Allied Grand/Eastern doll. I still don't know which one, but she's definitely by Allied Grand/Eastern.

  She also comes with this collection of clothes. Except for the little gloves. Those are the only things I requested to keep from these things the lady wanted to send me.

  So if you want to bring this baby home, just leave a comment with your contact information and I won't publish it, but I'll get you in touch with the owner.

  See you tomorrow for another doll. There are still a couple of these freebies to go.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #298: Allied Grand Doll

    Continuing with Ivy's room makeover today I went out and bought storage tubs to pack away her old toys and things. The ones I got were small and cheap, so I traded them with some nice sturdy ones that held the stuff from our last dolls shows. To do that I had to unpack the show tubs and I thought while I was doing it I'd photograph some of the dolls for posting. These are almost all dolls I'm not keeping, so most of them will be ending up on the sales page. I think I'm keeping today's girl,but keep your eye on the upcoming posts.If you spot something that takes your fancy,let me know and we'll work it out.
  Today's doll is a little bit of a mystery.

I know she's by Allied Grand.

And I'm pretty sure these are her original clothes.

Her dress snaps in the back.

Her dress has pretty embroidery on the front.

She has bloomers that match her dress.

Her slip is actually a separate piece of clothing.

 

She's probably a late 50's or 60's doll.

She has sleep eyes with plastic lashes and she's about 10 inches tall.But what I don't know is her name. If anybody recognizes her,please let me know who she is.
  That's today's doll. Come back tomorrrow and see what else I dug out.