07-04-2018 06:41 PM
Hello. Please help. eBay won't allow me to post photos here----and I NEVER have trouble posting on other sites or even when selling. A glitch? I give up on the photos.
I hope you can wade through this description and give me some guidance, please.
I have been given a boxful of antique dolls to sell (on commission) by a friend. After looking and looking and looking (magnifying glass, asking housemates to help) at the mark on the back of the one doll's head, I cannot deciper the letters. EFLANELL? It's driving me crazy.
Here is a detailed description of her:
She is 8.25" tall. She is definitely old. She is all one material---composition? Not bisque or plastic. Her arms and head can be moved.*** She has on wooden clogs.*** Her eyes are painted on and glance to her right. Her hair is like baby doll hair----only atop her head, and under her white linen bonnet. There are embossed grooves to look like hair, brunette. She is wearing red, white and blue w/ an apron of white and red polka dots. The broad hem on her apron is blue. Her skirt is down to her ankles and is of a tiny squares print---red, white, blue, yellow. She has beautiful silk stockings which reach up to her hips.
Thank you in advance for any help you might give me.
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07-08-2018 01:53 AM
Wonderful! Yes, it is she. Wow. Thank you. Love that you knew and shared the detailed posting with me. Thanks ever so much.
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07-04-2018 08:04 PM
Could the doll be marked: EFFanBEE? Between 1938-1943, Effanbee made a series of dolls wearing ethnic costumes called "Butin-Nose;" 8" tall, all composition, molded hair, painted side glancing eyes, jointed at neck, shoulders.
07-04-2018 08:28 PM
07-08-2018 01:48 AM
Thank you so much for the information. I will look again. It is frustrating in the extreme to be unable to read such marks. But----I think you are right, as this doll came to me along with several other effanbee dolls. (The other marks were all clear as day, easy to decipher.) I appreciate greatly your help with this i.d. Good job.
07-08-2018 01:53 AM
Wonderful! Yes, it is she. Wow. Thank you. Love that you knew and shared the detailed posting with me. Thanks ever so much.
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😘
07-08-2018 08:53 AM
You are most welcome. I love dolls. You gave a fabulous description and knowing the doll was most likely Effanbee, the rest was easy. 🙂