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Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh Dolls 1916-1920
Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh
an artist, first success was from a cast metal statuette called the
"Good Fairy", not long after she founded a small doll business in Chicago, IL USA
called the Raleigh Doll Company who operated from 1916 to 1920, at
which time they were
acquired by the Pollyanna Doll Company who operated in Chicago from the early 1920s
to about the early 1930s. Jessie
produced light weight composition dolls from a specially developed formula. The
dolls were created to resemble real children, Raleigh used student
artists from the Chicago Art Institute to paint the dolls
Dolls were 10 1/2" to 22" tall, three types of body construction have been found; 1. All composition socket head and jointed composition body with steel springs. 2. Composition shoulder head and lower arm and leg limbs on a jointed cloth body with cloth limbs attached by an embedded metal spring with hardwood plugs. 3. Composition shoulder head with a cloth jointed body, cloth upper arms and composition lower arms, and cloth lower legs attached with steel spring joints, sleep or painted eyes, one stroke almost straight across brown painted eyebrows, molded painted hair or wigged, dolls often have a curved hand, thus allowing them to hold an accessory. The eye lashes of some dolls are painted almost vertically, instead of curved. They made boy and girl dolls and dolly face dolls. The doll clothing was made by home workers, early dolls came both dressed or undressed. Because of the short time span of this business, few dolls have been found and all their dolls were unmarked, making identification a challenge, however due to their distinctive body construction and the dolls unique look, it shouldn't be hard to tell them from the mass produced, unmarked dolls from this time period. Early Raleigh dolls were exclusively distributed thru Butler Brothers. Here are antique Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh doll names identified
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