Lizzie Borden Society Forum

You can call in the search party now. I was on a brief jaunt to North and South Carolina, having attended two reunions and a doll show in four days, not to mention doing some casual househunting and enjoying a lot of good food. Time for that diet... I'll get busy and read all the messages that have been posted during my absence.

You mean to tell us you were out having all that fun and you didn't even take me? You were out having a good time and I'm sitting here trading stocks? I mean really!

We have all been talking about you behind your back but we manage to hide all those posts.

Welcome back.

-1bigsteve (o:

Welcome back, Edisto! Sounds like you had a great time. Get anything neat at the doll show?

Welcome back Edisto !


Tracy...

YAY!

We missed ya! Welcome back! The doll show sounds like fun. I'm not a collector, but I love them.

I did find some good bargains at the doll show. One dealer was selling her old repair stock. She had antique baby bodies (no, not real babies -- dolls!) for 25 bucks. Up here, they often go for over $100. It's true that the poor things have no heads, but it's lots easier to find heads than bodies for some reason. Which is odd, because the heads are bisque ceramic, while the bodies were originally sold as "unbreakable." I also got one entire baby doll from the same woman. Strangely, its head belonged on one of the orphan bodies I had bought. Not sure why a dealer would mix 'n' match like that??? Maybe to sell more stuff to fools like me? Then I bought two sad-looking old composition dolls from the 30s for $7.50 each. A few days later at a doll show up here, I bought wigs for them, paying much more for the wigs than I had for the dolls themselves. I had already bought a Patti Playpal (1960s doll that some of you may recall from your childhood) at an antique mall in N. C. on the way down. Because she's vinyl, I was afraid she would "melt" in the car, so I had to take her into the hotel rooms with me. She's 35" tall, and I had her covered with a plastic sack, but her feet were sticking out. I got some really odd looks from desk clerks! Nobody called the cops though. That's probably because I look nothing like Michael Jackson and wasn't wearing a clerical collar.

Oh, Edisto! I was too grown up to have a Patty Playpal. I just sold my Winnie the Walking/Talking Doll (1950s) and some Tiny Tears dolls. It was really hard to part with them.

Wow, sounds like you got some real goodies! I don't think I ever heard of Patti?

I did have Chrissy with the growing hair, I believe she was also by Ideal? The only thing I added to my doll family was a Harry Potter action figure I got for my birthday, he does magic tricks via an air jet that comes out of his right hand.

Yep. That's Patti. The one I got is a brunette, too. I find the blonde ones are much easier to find than the brunettes. Chrissy is a beautiful doll, but she was really overproduced, so that she doesn't sell for much. Her original wardrobe in great too -- so much of her period (late sixties through mid-seventies). There's an entire Crissy family from Ideal, and some of them are much harder to find than Crissy. If people want to collect dolls and don't have much money to spend, they can't go wrong with those dolls. Very lovely quality. Patti is a slightly earlier doll, of course. None of these dolls are antiques, but they're well worth collecting.

I was not really a dolly girl, I grew up with boys...so I liked Tonka trucks. However, I did have 2 Chatty Cathy's (1 blonde & 1 redhead), and I had a Tiny Tears too ! I remember I thought if I cut her hair it would grow back. So, I snuck behind the couch and cut all of her hair off except for a swatch in the middle of the top of her head !


Tracy...

Lizzie might have preferred a "Chucky" doll.

Gruesome! It looks like Lizzie may have already taken a whack at him. That is one doll I don't think I'd ever want in my house.

OOOOthat's AWFUL!
Can you take it away?