Posted 8 years ago
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I found this gem at an antiques flea market today. I am fascinated by her and would love to find out more about her. Her dress seems to be handmade and her body is 100% composition. I found one marking so far on her back, 20*. Someone suggested she might be an Ideal Ginger but I looked up and found they had cloth bodies. There was a note card on her wrist but i can only post 4 images right now. What I have been able to research about the card was that it is from an old vintage greeting card company.
She is really beautiful!!!!
Did you look at back of neck under wig for for name ? She does look a lot like Ideal Ginger who did have a composition body but she would have Ideal on back of neck .She looks like she is in factory clothes at least the under slip is factory but I can't see stitching well on dress . She is well preserved so I am inclined to think Ideal or Madame Alex ,Effanbee more high quality dolls. Look at back of neck ok . Here is a link showing Ginger and back of her neck , Markings do always appear clear . And Ginger had that dimple on chin also :-)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ideal-Ginger-Composition-13-RARE-/142064828811?hash=item2113b9418b%3Ag%3AVA4AAOSweWVXd51v&nma=true&si=Nt4g5RL8M2TozYr2nZNoqwkmiss%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
I am not with her now but when I get back home I will look. The marking on her back is different though than the one on your link. The dress definitely looks handmade, like a repurposed wedding dress. I will get a better pick of the underskirt, but that looks like it could be original. So far I am leaning towards an Ideal.
I would really love to find out more about who she belonged to though! Others seem to think she may have been a gift to be displayed during the wedding ceremony as was the custom in the 50s I was told.
You can see dress better in person and a refurbished old gown would make sense . She has a hint of a Shirley Temple look so I am leaning toward a Ideal doll but she would be marked on neck if she is . many times Moms made their daughters doll a wedding dress from their own and also older women made one for their childhood doll as a replica of their dress as a keepsake . The bodies were always interchangeable at doll factories remembering these were toys not ever meant to be collector dolls :-) I will await your reply and sometimes mark can be under glued wig on back neck .