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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 20349, member: 33"]'Nuff, in your last doll photo, neither of the dolls marked Alexander would be Ginny. Ginny was made by the Vogue company. Also, neither of them is Cissy. Cissy was a 20" tall doll, and was more of an adult fashion doll. There is a smaller doll (10") who looks a little like her named Cissette.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may have found this page already. It gives an overview of the Madame Alexander dolls. <a href="http://www.dollreference.com/alexander_dolls1948-1960s.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.dollreference.com/alexander_dolls1948-1960s.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dollreference.com/alexander_dolls1948-1960s.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>One trick with Madame Alexander dolls is they reused the face molds for various dolls. So you will sometimes see a phrase saying that a doll has a "Cissy face," for example. That just means her face resembles Cissy's. Generally the bodies were different.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't collect dolls... but actually I have four dolls now and the people on the eBay Dolls board told me I'm fooling myself to think I don't collect them. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/cool.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My mother, however, collects lots of dolls and especially likes the hard plastic dolls of the 1950s. And she has a bunch of reference books about dolls. Sometimes when visiting her I've read through a lot of them. That and talking with her has given me some knowledge that I would not otherwise have had.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's some info about Vogue dolls, if you haven't seen it. <a href="http://dollreference.com/vogue_dolls.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dollreference.com/vogue_dolls.html" rel="nofollow">http://dollreference.com/vogue_dolls.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 20349, member: 33"]'Nuff, in your last doll photo, neither of the dolls marked Alexander would be Ginny. Ginny was made by the Vogue company. Also, neither of them is Cissy. Cissy was a 20" tall doll, and was more of an adult fashion doll. There is a smaller doll (10") who looks a little like her named Cissette. You may have found this page already. It gives an overview of the Madame Alexander dolls. [url]http://www.dollreference.com/alexander_dolls1948-1960s.html[/url] One trick with Madame Alexander dolls is they reused the face molds for various dolls. So you will sometimes see a phrase saying that a doll has a "Cissy face," for example. That just means her face resembles Cissy's. Generally the bodies were different. I don't collect dolls... but actually I have four dolls now and the people on the eBay Dolls board told me I'm fooling myself to think I don't collect them. :cool::) My mother, however, collects lots of dolls and especially likes the hard plastic dolls of the 1950s. And she has a bunch of reference books about dolls. Sometimes when visiting her I've read through a lot of them. That and talking with her has given me some knowledge that I would not otherwise have had. Here's some info about Vogue dolls, if you haven't seen it. [url]http://dollreference.com/vogue_dolls.html[/url][/QUOTE]
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