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My aunt left me this doll. I always admired it when I visited her. She told me about it, but all I remember is, she said it was French.
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Fun Friends of the ‘50s and ‘60s
Many of us who were children in the 1950s and 1960s fondly remember the many doll friends we had that were just plain fun!
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Antique Q&A: Käthe Kruse Found in the Attic
Q: Could you identify this old doll that we found cleanning out an attic? I tried to look it up, but really didn’t know where to start.
Everybody’s Talkin’ Barbie!
by DOLLS Magazine Contributor | Antique Dolls, Barbie Dolls & Mattel, Collectible Dolls, Doll Collecting, Dollmakers, Fashion Dolls |
The big news in toys back in 1968 was the release of a talking Barbie! This had been on the drawing board for several years — Mattel’s 20-inch Chatty Cathy from the early ’60s could say several different phrases. But it was hard to adapt the talking mechanism — a miniature record player, complete with speaker — to fit inside Barbie’s 11.5-inch body.
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