The Arranbee Doll Company (aka as R&B) was established in the 1920′s and enjoyed many years of creating high quality dressed dolls. Dolls included baby dolls, toddler type dolls and little girl dolls. The dolls of the 1930′s and 1940′s were mostly made of composition, which was an improvement over the early bisque dolls. Both [...]

In a previous article, I discussed a very rare 1960′s Black Ginnette doll. This article shows the more common white version of the same doll manufactured by the Vogue Doll Co. in the mid 1960′s. She was redesigned from the 1950′s doll. Her size was the same, but her sleep eyes looked a bit larger [...]

In the early 1960′s, Georgene Novelties lost the license to produce their Johnny Gruelle authorized version of the very famous Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls. For a decade or so, Georgene Novelties had to tolerate many Raggedy “look-alike” dolls that were produced by numerous smaller companies. Now it was their turn to produce a doll [...]