Doll-A-Day 2023 #164: Little Boy Blue Pose Doll

  Today's doll is a little confusing. For me, anyway. It's this pose doll.

At first I thought, 'How cute! It's Little Boy Blue'. Then I noticed he had wings. Little Boy Blue is an angel? LITTLE BOY BLUE IS DEAD?! AH!

I mean, he looks like he's 'under the haystack fast asleep'. But is he really dead? I don't like this. He has sparkly wings, with pink things inside.

And he has feather hair. Not 'featherED' hair. Feather hair.

That one feather is unglued and really out of place.

Is this writing on the bottom of the shoe?

He's about 10 inches tall.

He has a mask face. Or is he a she? We may never know.

  That's the doll for today. Hey! Arky came up from the basement for me again today! Anyway. see you tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #293: Pose Doll

  Today's doll is this simple girl.

She's sort of like the typical Japanese pose doll, but not quite.

She has stockingette 'skin',and a simple face,with felt lashes and lips.

She has a yellow corduroy shirt and a rust coloured corduroy skirt. There's no hair under that hat, but she has red yarn bangs and braids sticking out from under it.

She has felt shoes with flowers that feel almost like paper.

Her neck and arms are wired and posable.

She's about 12 inches tall. Her legs might be posable too, but I've been afraid to try to pose them. I think they might not be posable, and I might break them. So for now,I'm not going to try.

She almost looks homemade, but certain things about her make me think she isn't,like her shoes and the felt eyelashes.
  That's the doll for today. See you again tomorrow for another one.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #174: Bradley dolls

    Today's dolls are more that were in the box of auction rejects. They're these pretty ladies.

They're Bradley dolls.

Except for the one in pink. She's a Bradley wanna be.

Bradley dolls are known for their big eyes.
 

And their unusual fingers!

Their faces are painted and the bodies are stockinette.

The one in purple satin is in a sitting position.

The bride has pegs on her feet,so she must have fit into a stand.

  I like these dolls, but you can't keep everything. One of my oldest dolls is a Bradley or Bradley type that I got from a hospital gift shop when my mom was in for a hysterectomy when I was 4. I will have to show her to you some day. I also have my childhood music box doll, (which you can see HERE.), which is a Bradley looking pose doll,a few small pose dolls,and a larger Bradley type I got at the flea market a while back. So I have plenty! I'm also going to let go of these two,which you may have seen in my post when I got them at a yard sale a few years ago.

These ladies aren't as old as the ones above.They have molded mask faces and molded hands instead of the stuffed stockinette ones.

  That brings me to the sales page I mentioned a few days ago. I have been working on it! It will be up soon, and new things will be added all the time. I keep finding or thinking of more things I need to get rid of. I like so many different things that I have all sorts of dolls, and things for all scales. I will be so happy to clear some things out and have more room to enjoy what keep. Of  course there are a lot of things I will never get rid of . Those things include my childhood toys,gifts that were given to me,and of course,the dolls I posted that belong to Emma or Ivy. But I've posted an awful lot of dolls over the years. It may take me a while to get to some that I'm saying goodbye to. Also,I may not remember some that I wanted to get rid of. So if you saw something on the blog you have been longing for,it never hurts to ask if I'm getting rid of it. You never know!

Doll-A-Day 2019 #47: Jewelry Box Pose Doll

  Today's doll is one I've had since I was quite small.

She's what is called a 'pose doll'.

She came atop a jewelry box.

I had asked for a jewelry box,imagining a beautiful wooden one,like my sister got one year. Instead I got one with cartoony flowers on it, and a pose doll that snapped on top.

Like a lot of Pose Dolls,music box girl was made in Japan.

Pose Dolls are usually made of stockingette covered wire armatures. You may have seen my previous posts which included Pose Dolls HERE, HERE,HERE,and HERE.
 

  I was pretty disappointed when I got this music box. I suppose my parents,(or, at least, my mom.),thought that since I was so little I was too young for a 'serious' jewelry box. This one is musical, and had a revolving plastic ballerina, the type that was very popular at the time, and for a long time afterward too.

The base of my ballerina got broken and now she won't stay on the little pin. She stood on the pin on top of that spring,and when the box was closed, she would bend over on the spring, out of the way.

My box plays "Oh What a Beautiful Morning", from "Oklahoma".

I always stored the girl inside the box, so she was protected. As I have said before, I was a pretty anal retentive kid.

Tomorrow we'll look at another doll.

Flea Market Haul: Lots of Good Stuff of All Sizes!

  I still plan to show you my anniversary present, but in the meantime I wanted to show you the goodies I got a the flea market several weeks ago. Lori didn't want to go to our usual flea market because it was so far away and she didn't want to leave her dad that long. (If you read the blog you'll know he passed away recently.He was 93.) We went instead to a closer flea market and got home early. Some of the things we'll see in more detail in upcoming posts,but here's what I got that day.

Keep in mind that High School Musical school and the Monster High School (If you can see it) were already here. I still need to get rid of them.)

That's the Barbie Country Living House. The doll on the top isn't Pippi Longstocking. She's Minna from the book "The Rag Coat",by Lauren Mills,and she's made by Merrymakers. (I love their dolls. You may have seen my post about some Merrymakers doll HERE.)She's with the mini Chinese lantern,which I accidentally set up upside down. There's also a really nice pose doll,(wearing the red hat).

It has the couch,table,and chair,plus a homemade pillow and a clear plexiglass coffee table which I didn't photograph because I forgot all about it.It was invisible in the corner of the kitchen!

She came from the same dealer as the boxed Dr. Littlechap.

Doctor John Littlechap was in his box,(and in his underwear.),and came with some homemade clothes. The pink flip couch/bed is American Girl. The sheet music, from one of our favourite movies, is for Ivy.

The horse statue is a pencil sharpener. The hole punch makes flower shapes.

Recognize this girl?

She's Laurie Partridge (Susan Dey), from The Partridge Family. She was made by Remco and is pretty hard to find. These aren't her original clothes though. She's also from the Dr. Littlechap dealer.
 That dealer had loads of dolls. (I got Laurie Partridge,Dr. Littlechap,4 other dolls, and the flip chair from her.) She was desperate to get rid of them too because she was moving south and didn't want to take it with her. She really wanted me to take that Country Living house! It started out at $20. Then she said I could have it for $15. Then it became $12. She finally got it down to $10. I still didn't really want it because it had a broken spot and was so big it wouldn't fit in my cart,which was already full. She originally wasn't going to sell Dr.Littlechap or the Vogue Jeff doll,(We'll talk about him in a minute.),because she hadn't priced them yet or even taken them out of the tub. I asked her about them though, and she gave me a price finally. Then it started coming down. Then it came down more, and she knocked some off the Country Living house. Then she marked them down again,and offered to throw in the Country Living house for free. She gave me such a deal I took it. I asked her about the pose doll and she gave me the Bradley doll for nothing with it!
   There were lots of miniatures at that flea market.

I love the tiny Holly Hobbie doll. I bought a box of miniatures for $10,and it was full of stuff. From what you see here, the mini veg,the grandfather clock,the metal stuff, and the mini books all came from that box. The blue bowl with flowers inside was made in Germany. That bowl, and the fountain, (on the right), came from another dealer.

There's that fountain. Isn't it great?!The yellow thing is a tiny doll sized pocket knife type fork and spoon.That came in the box too, along with the porcelain head,and the tiny metal statues,(in front of Santa Claus.). Look at those! The doll top middle is Dolly Darlings John.He's wearing his original clothes except his shirt. I got him from the same dealer,but not in the box. The little porcelain figures top right came from a different dealer, along with the little plastic Cracker Jack girl,(middle right,to the right of the tiles.). I have a couple of those that I had as a kid.I always loved them for some reason,and when I was little I lost one. The tiles are real Delft. I got them from the dealer who sold me the fountain. She also sold me the tiny red candy dish, (next to the pocket knife),and the horse pencil sharpener.

    The box was worth the $10 for the little metal statues alone. Most of them were Tinkerbell! (You can see all the Tinkerbells in the plastic box bottom right.) The others were really realistic figures though.(They're by the porcelain figures.)

There's the Bradley doll that came from the same seller as Dr. Littlechap and Laurie Partridge,and the Vogue Jeff doll on the left. Jeff was Jill's boyfriend.
 

You can see the box of miniature books (on the bottom left.),and the porcelain Blue Boy and friend here,bottom right.

He's in really nice shape and has his clothes. There's also a Christmas ornament and a Happy Family Ryan doll dressed in the Tommy prince outfit. The cool little shelf full of minis was only $3 from the dealer I bought the box of minis from!

Look at all that great stuff. It's removable too.

  This flea market wasn't like the farmery flea markets we usually go to,so not only did I find alot more stuff, some of the prices were not as good,since these people often knew the value of the stuff I'm looking for better than the dealers at the farmery flea markets. I still got some really good deals though. When I bought several things from one dealer they usually discounted it for me. I'm not sure Lori will want to go to that flea market again,since the farmery ones are more her thing.It's closer though, so maybe I can get Emma or Ken to go with me sometime. Next time we'll see what Ken got me for our anniversary.