Today's doll is this little girl.
She's Kewpie Gal.
She was made by Cameo Dolls, a division of Strombecker, in 1972.
She's 8 inches tall.
She is almost a typical Kewpie doll. She has the same face,with it's big eyes and closed mouth smile.
She has the pudgy splayed Kewpie fingers.
But she doesn't have the point of hair on top of her head. Instead she has a neat bob,and a velvet ribbon, strangely embedded in her head.
She has pudgy knees too.
Her box says she has stockings and shoes, but she doesn't,in spite of still being in her box.
Who knows why. Maybe the box was just mislabeled. It already has one correction.
Apparently she was intended to have a 'cooing voice'. Instead, her soft rubber head squeaks when you squeeze it. What kind of kid is going to squeeze their doll's head?!
She does have a 'colorful cute style dress'.
She also has a separate white slip with lace trim.
She also has white undies.
Kewpie dolls were the invention of Rose O'Neill, a cartoonist.
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| Rose O'Neill in 1907. She looks a bit like a Kewpie herself. |
The characters became so popular that ONeill began selling Kewpie paper dolls called Kewpie Kutouts. The first Kewpie dolls were produced as bisque dolls in 1912.
See you tomorrow for another doll.
