Doll-A-Day 2023 #81: Mini B

   I'm pretty sure today's doll is a Mini B Barbie doll. Somebody tell me if I'm wrong.

I posted a Mini B before, and this girl seems to be similar enough that I would say she's the same thing. You can see the first one HERE. She's only a couple of inches tall.

She can sit down.

Her lower torso is jointed at the...butt.

 

Her arms are made as part of her torso though, and can't move. 

She can turn her head though.

Her underclothes and blouse are molded on and painted. Her skirt is fabric, and has an attached apron.

She has  a blue streak in her hair.

  The Mini B dolls were first produced in 2009. They aren't made any more, but I'm not sure when the line was discontinued, but they are no longer made.  Not being able to move their arms, or having any other clothes to change into limited their play potential. They are cute little things though, and make good dolls' dolls.

  That's the doll for today. See you again tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 2023 #80: Marx Dolly Darling Clone

   Well, that title pretty much says it all! Today's doll is a clone doll, of Hasbro's Dolly Darling dolls.

  I don't know what this doll is called, so if any of you do, please tell me in a comment. She is made by Marx, but bears a great resemblance to the Hasbro Dolly Darling dolls. (You can see my Dolly Darling John dolls HERE and HERE, and my Dolly Darling Honey dolls HERE. You can see another Dolly Darling clone I've had since I was a kid, HERE.

She has similar arms/hands, and a very similar body.

There were some Dolly Darlings with molded painted hair, like this doll has, but the first series had rooted hair.

  One big difference between this doll and the Dolly Darlings, and a difference that allows me to be sure she isn't one, is the poor quality of her face painting.  Marx made a lot of small figures and the larger Johnny West dolls, (Sorry! Action figures!), but they weren't especially picky about their face paint.

She's the same size as a Dolly Darling too, 4 inches tall.

As you can see, her blonde hair has white streaks.

She says 'Marx  Hong Kong', and 1966 in Roman numerals, on her back.

I don't know what they were thinking with her dress! It's a bit revealing.

But she does have a pair of shorts on underneath.

Her socks and shoes are molded and painted on.

  That's today's doll. Tomorrow there will be another one.

Doll-A-Day 2023 #79: Ginny, Ginny Little One

   Okay, I could say, Ginny Ginny, dreams are ten a penny, but what I really want to do is sing the Little Richard song Jenny Jenny! (Whooooo!! Jenny Jenny!) But since you can't hear me anyway, (and lucky for you, you can't!), I'll just say that today's doll is Ginny times two: two versions of Vogue's Ginny doll. Neither of them is the original Ginny, which was first produced in 1948. What we have here is a 1970's Ginny, which veered from the familiar face of the Ginny's before her, for a more modern look.

And her friend, a 1980's Ginny, Little One, which returned to the more familiar form.

 

   The ads for the 70's Ginny didn't do her any favours. It's a very unflattering picture.

The 70's Ginny dolls tend to be made of inferior stuff, with their hair often found crispy and thin.

But they do have bendable rubber legs.

And cute little childish pot bellies

Older Ginny dolls sometimes had jointed knees, or a walking feature. Little One just has straight, solid legs.

  They both have sleep eyes.

Sorry about 70's girl's nudity, but she was this way when I got her, and incidentally I have no idea where that was. She's more embarrassed that I have posted her picture with her face this dirty.

How could you?

And as for the nudity, Little One more than makes up for it with this over the top dress!

She's in much nicer condition than 70's girl, although she is missing a shoe, and has a stain on the back of her tights. 

She does have her tag though!

 

    Along with these two there was a packaged Ginny outfit for 70's girl. 

 

 I definitely want to get rid of the dolls, (anybody want them?), but I'm debating on keeping the outfit for Tammy World. It is just the kind of thing she'd wear, and she is here without her wardrobe, after all. I'm just thinking it might be a bit big for her, considering she has appropriated a Hogwarts Heroes  Hermione jointed body.

I know the socks and the shoes would be too big for her.

  I have seen these outfits before, but I didn't realize they have a pattern to make your own Ginny outfit on the back of the package.

You aren't really designing them if you're using their pattern, are you? Surely not.

  Those are today's doll. We might or might not return to a single doll post tomorrow, depending on my mood!

Doll-A-Day 2023 #78: Mirren Barrie's Diana

   Today's doll is Diana.

  She was hand made by Mirren Barrie. You can tell this, because Mirren Barrie dolls always have a little pocket sewn into their underclothes, with all their information on it, and containing a little paper with all the details.

This one has her pocket, but is missing her paper.

This doll was made, as you can see from her pocket, as a souvenir doll for the 25th anniversary of Niada, The National Institute of American Doll Artists. It was a convention doll, handed out at the Naida convention in 1987. Apparently there were 201 of them made, and this lady is number 137, all information you can read on her pocket!

  Her face is hand painted hardened cloth.

  Diana has an elaborate hair style.

And she has some schnazzy shoes.

 She also sports some jewelry and a nice belt.

  Huge puffy sleeves, like the ones on her dress, were a thing in the 1830's, and were kept puffy and standing by stuffing them with little feather pillows, or putting little wire cages, made for the sleeves, inside. Can you imagine walking around with that crap in your sleeves?!

   

  She has a few under layers, but not as many as a real life lady of the era would have had. That would have created too much bulk on such a small scale body.

Her hands have stitched fingers.

  She would have had a huge hat too, a purse, earrings, and a parasol. You can see another Diana, who has all her accessories and her paper, HERE.

   Mirrren Barrie, (I keep wanting to say Helen Mirren!), was a Niada doll artist. Originally from Scotland, she later settled in Vermont. She specialized in historically costumed dolls. I swear I have posted Mirren Barrie dolls on the blog before, but I can't find any! I know I have more. I got some at an auction, by accident. My others have their papers. I hope they survived the flood in our downstairs room, like this lady did.

  See you again tomorrow!