Posted 10 years ago
hearthewind
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I found this pretty porcelain fellow in the dirt on my mom's Mill Valley property. It was buried in the topsoil. The house on the property was built in 1890, so I suppose it might have belonged to a child of the household at that time. It is perhaps 1.5" chin to crown... Any ideas?
Thanks!
YIKES................that first pic scared ME
LOL
Agree with antiquerose - gonna have nightmares tonight!!
She is a Rose O'neill Kewpie Doll all bisque , The eye paint was damaged while buried . These dolls were very popular and statrted in about 1913 and continued to carry her name and made in Germany ,always blue wings and maked with paper label . Many newer companies tried to make and sell Kewpie dolls because they were so loved but no blue wings and poor quality . Yours is One of her dolls . I sent a link so you can see what she would have looked like .Do not use price as they are way off with it being broke .
Rose , O’Neill’s Kewpies made their first appearance as character drawings in a women’s magazine in December 1909. Kewpies were fanciful, elf-like babies with a top-knot head, a wide smile, and sidelong eyes. They were both impish and kind and solved all kinds of problems in humorous ways. O’Neill described them as “a sort of little round fairy whose one idea is to teach people to be merry and kind at the same time.” The Kewpies were immediately popular with both children and adults.
In 1913 O’Neill patented a doll based on the Kewpie character. She oversaw the making of the first Kewpie dolls originally produced in Germany. The dolls were sold all over the world along with a vast array of Kewpie merchandise such as tableware, fabrics, and trinkets.
Later Kewpie's were sold under name Cameo . They were composition or vinyl not Bisque .
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-ROSE-ONEILL-BISQUE-5-KEWPIE-DOLL-GERMANY-/201059640072?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ed016a308
Yours dates from 1915-20 most likely , She is a early one ,But take down that scary head shot with light in head she deserves to be as cute as they were :-)
http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/o/oneill/
Please make a note you got this message on her and also requesting you remove first photo and leave other 2 :-)
Interesting information from Manikin :-). And the first photo is so scary!
Dearest Manikin, thank you so very much! I am so excited! Nearly 100 years old? Wow. And my parents bought the property in the late 1950s, and I came across her while pulling ivy in about 1996. So, for at least 36-odd years, and probably much longer, she lay there in redwood topsoil. Well, she gets lots of society these days. LOL! She sits on my desk, and as you see, I amuse myself by photographing her. I hope that the new one is less ... creepy? I am afraid that I was unable to resist that aspect of her. Thank you SO much!! Cheers!
hearthewind looks like you do enjoy her and I love the new artisic hair do :-) A treasure from the past . Was glad to help . Hope your not offended I asked to remove first photo it creeps people out and doll collectors like to see them as what they were Toys ! Not haunted scary objects, but rather as cherished dolls that a litttle girl loved once :-)