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Vintage Madame Alexander Dolls were created by Madame Beatrice Alexander Behrman. When she was young, Madame Alexander used to watch her father work in the doll hospital below their apartment. This is where her admiration for dolls was born as she would play with the ones waiting to be fixed. Gaining inspiration from these moments, Madame Alexander created her first doll, which was a red cross nurse. As her dolls gained in popularity, a business was born. Madame Alexander dolls have become a mainstay amongst doll collectors ever since.
The first dolls made by the company were cloth. The antique dolls that were produced from 1923 to the early 1930's were made solely of this material. Once the cloth was cut, these dolls were then stuffed with a variety of materials such as sawdust and paper. Assembly of the stuffed dolls required glue and hand faces paint. One of the most well known dolls manufactured in this time is the Alice in Wonderland doll. She was created with yellow yarn hair, a blue and white dress as well as an apron that is organdy in color.
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As Madame Alexander dolls gained strength in the market, sturdier materials when into the production. Plaster of Paris was one of the materials used to create the older versions of dolls. Tiny Betty was one such doll. This doll has a plaster of Paris face with clue eyes that are looking to the side and small pink lips. This doll was created with blond doll hair instead the yarn that was used in earlier creations. Tiny Betty is wearing a pink and white striped dress with a pink ribbon tied in her hair. It was during this time that the faces of the dolls each presented more personality.
In the late 1940's Vintage Madame Alexander Dolls once again went through a transformation. The later dolls replaced earlier materials with hard plastics. Once the plastic was molded into the correct shape, the plastic was painted in to look like skin. This paint, however, would wear and crack over time. That is why the company moved to creating dolls out of rose colored plastic. This material was more durable eliminating the problems of deterioration that the company had experienced with the products.
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With the later creations of Madame Alexander dolls came more fine tuned facial features. The dolls were painted with multicolored eyes so that the doll had a distinct pupil and iris. Also, the lips were painted to create texture and appear as though they were three dimensional. Once such example of this extraordinary craftsmanship is the doll named Margaret. Margaret has auburn doll hair, a beautiful face and a long pink dress. The look is topped off with a brown sun hat. Margaret and other such dolls made at the time were very popular for the details with which they were created as well as the durability of the doll.
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| 1956 Madame Alexander Alexander kin Calls in a School Friend 8 BNW Doll MIB | |
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| Madame Alexander Composite 1920s Alice in Wonderland | |
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