Flea Market Girl: She Might Be Nanette, But You Can Call Her Kathy

   Well, it's been more than a couple of days, but I am finally getting up that post on my other doll from the last time my sister and I went to the flea market. 

She's unmarked, but I think I have a pretty good idea of what doll she might be. But we know who she was.

 I bought her from her original owner. The lady was 82, and she said she got the doll when she was about 10 years old. So, 1950.

  As we were leaving the lady's booth, my sister wondered what the doll's name was. She asked, and the lady said she had never given her a name. Her husband chuckled to himself and mumbled that that was the silliest thing he'd ever heard. "...all that time..."

My sister decided we should name the doll after the lady, so we asked her name. She was Kathy, so the doll became Kathy. After 72 years, she finally has a name.

Kathy, (The doll. Not the lady.), is about 14 inches tall, and is jointed at the neck, shoulders, and hips.

  She hasn't had any clean up done yet, so her face is a bit dirty. So is her dress, but I doubt it's original. It doesn't fit her very well.

She has bluey green sleep eyes with 'real' lashes.

   

Her mouth is painted a bit unevenly, which I think is a clue to what doll she is.

  Her hair is a wig, not rooted.

Some of the stitching shows. She definitely needs her hair reset.

  She's all hard plastic, and luckily doesn't smell. It's hard to tell from this photo, but her knees are very slightly blushed.

  Her poor little hands need a cleaning too. It appears she has been playing in the dirt.

  Her dress may not be original, but her undies probably are.

The hem in that dress makes me think it's homemade.

  But check out these shoes. They could use a cleaning too, but they're cute. And I think they're original.

 

  They sort of look hand painted, but I still think they came this way. I'll tell you why in a minute.

As I said, she's unmarked. There are some clues to who she might be though. She greatly resembles Sweet Sue, by American Character. You can see my two Sweet Sues, (Well, one positive Sweet Sue and one possible Sweet Sue.), by clicking on these links. But she also looks a lot like Nancy Lee or Nanette, both by Arranbee, (also known as R & B.) In fact, I found this doll, which is a slightly larger size, but has both the unevenly painted mouth and the same hand painted looking saddle shoes:

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/arranbee-nanette-19-doll-1952-1056-c-2914fc09b0

  So it's highly probable that she's an Arranbee Nanette or Nancy Lee doll. I would love someone to take Kathy who can revive her to her full glory. I paid $10 for her, (After the lady said she'd take $8 instead of the $10 she was originally asking, she took my $10 and said, "Yeah, ten." and didn't give me any change. She was 82. I didn't bother to correct her.), and I would take $10 plus the cost of shipping her to you. I just felt I should rescue Kathy and let the lady know she would get a good home. I'm sure any of you willing to take Kathy on will take good care of her. I don't have the ability to do hair, and that's the main thing she needs done. A nice new (or old) dress and a clean up would help too. **Oh! I forgot to see if she's a walker! I know Nanette is a walker, but I'm not sure this girl is. I know her stringing seemed a little loose, so maybe she's not a walker. I'd check, but my leg is killing me after going to the rail road museum with Ken yesterday, and I'm not doing stairs today so I'll be good for tomorrow. Kathy is on the other floor of the house. I can check if anybody is interested in giving Kathy a home though.)**

A Whiney Tale and Flea Market Doll

   Just popping in to say I'm still around, and show you this little girl I got at the flea market a few weeks ago. The leg is still hurting. Sometimes it's not so bad. If I stay off of it, I have no pain. If I am on it too much I hurt pretty much from my waist to my toes. My back has gotten in on the act, probably because I walk funny from the knee pain. I feel like one leg is shorter than the other and it's throwing my back out. 

  There's a doll show this coming weekend, and another the next weekend. I'd skip the second one, because it was all just expensive fashion dolls and stuff I can't afford. But my sister liked going last year and wants to go again. I am looking forward to the first one though, as it's a good one. I don't know how the leg is going to behave though. It's a long drive there and back, and walking around the show will add to the wear and tear. Good thing I am my own boss and can take the next day off.

  Anyway, flea market doll! Here she is.

She's one of those little rubber/vinyl dolls that were really common when I was a kid. In fact, she reminds me very much of my little Jungle Legsly, which you might have seen in her Doll-A-Day post HERE.

Jungle Legsly.

In fact, she's almost exactly like Jungle Legsly, right down to the Mary Jane shoes. Jungle's weren't painted at all, but new girl's were painted all but the strap.

Kind of a slop job of painting.

  At about 5 inches she's bigger than Jungle, who is about 4 inches tall.

  She also has something Jungle doesn't have, and that's markings. This girl says Japan on her back.

  She has the standard jointing: neck, shoulders, and hips. So she can sit down, and turn her head.

She has side glance eyes, so she can look somewhat wary!

She does have a sweet face though.

Cute, but she desperately needs a cleaning. That's another thing I haven't gotten to yet. I do things on our Fun Days, Monday and Wednesday, try to catch up on things on Tuesdays and Thursdays, if I can still function without too much pain. I try to take it easy on Sundays to recover for Monday. It has been necessary to get out and go somewhere on Monday and Wednesday just to get out of the heat, since we don't have air conditioning. The last few days have been much cooler though. I took these pictures yesterday, and as you can see, it was very dark, and rained on and off. The weather is more like Fall. 

  We got up early Friday morning and went to a huge church sale in Columbus. We went a few years ago and they had some amazing stuff and the prices were really good. This time they didn't have very much interesting stuff and the prices weren't that great either. On the way home, since I haven't gone to hardly any yard sales this year I stopped at two or three, as well as a couple of Goodwills. By the time I got home I was hurting really badly. Ken wanted to cook out, so we ate outside, and we HAD to cut the watermelon we had before it started to rot on us. Ken went to work, and I cleared up the watermelon leftovers and got them in the fridge, and hauled myself upstairs. The pain had gotten worse and worse. I was in so much pain, including my back, that I was starting to get nauseous.  I ended up in so much pain that I wasn't sure I could take a shower and just go to bed. I managed to get the cat box cleaned and clean up after the food messes they had made, and get in the shower by 6 o'clock. Then I collapsed for the night.

  Her dress feels like it might be silk. Would that even make sense though? She was just a cheap doll. Of course, back in the olden days when I was a kid, doll clothes were sometimes made of silk.

Oh no! I can see into her soul through her mouth!

You might notice they didn't trim her fingers very well. They are molded round, but are cut square on the tips! 

  Her hair is a little thin, but it is in the original braids.

My sweet peas are blooming. And my tomato plants finally got some blooms on them! Of course, they'd better hurry up if they're going to grow any tomatoes.

And it's red.

  I do have another doll photographed to show you. That'll probably be in a couple of days. As for today, I'm pretty pain free, but I had to sit and lay around all day to get that way!

Doll-A-Day 2019 #123: Compo Girl

  Today we're going to take a closer look at a doll you may have seen in the post I did when I bought her. If not, you can see that post HERE. She's very old and cute girl.

She's about 21 inches tall.

I think she's composition.

She has blushy knees.

 Her head piece has a chest plate.

She's missing a lot of the surface of her 'skin'.

Her hair is a wig,and she has sleep eyes with real lashes.

I love dolls with teeth, and she has cute little teeth.

Her body is stuffed cloth,and she has a crier box in her back.

Does anybody recognize this girl? If you do let me know.

  That's it for today. Check back tomorrow and see what we'll have.