Note: these dolls are all unmarked, with the exception of Baby Sandy.
Baby Dolls
Several different models made, with painted hair and eyes, including 12" Baby Bunting in oval box, 8" Nursing Doll in trunk, 9.5" baby with basket, bedding and scale.
Feather Weight Doll
28" tall, composition head, forearms and lower legs, stuffed cloth body, sold in assorted dresses with matching bonnets and panties.
Baby Sandy
This doll is the easiest Freundlich doll to identify, marked "BABY SANDY" on the back of the head. Made in 8", 12" and 16" sizes, it is an all-composition portrait doll of the '30s child star Sandra Henville. Made with either sleep eyes or painted eyes, molded hair, open mouth with teeth,
Patsy type girl
12" and probably other sizes as well, all composition, has bent right arm and straight left arm, brown eyes glance to the right, molded hair, unmarked. Sold in a cardboard trunk set with extra clothing.
Military dolls
15" All composition dolls with molded hair and hats, dressed as Soldier, Sailor, WAAC and WAVE. Also 18" General Douglas MacArthur portrait doll with molded hat. All came with shield-shaped paper tags pinned to the clothing.
Animal dolls
Including 12" rabbit, 9.5" cat dressed as Puss in Boots, and probably others, with human-type bodies (e.g. hands instead of paws).
Pinocchio
16" doll with compo head and body, wooden limbs, brightly painted with red hair, blue eyes, pointy nose. Wears orange pants, green jacket with orange collar and cuffs.
Red Riding Hood set
See catalog advertisement on Freundlich page. Each 9.5" tall, simple cotton clothing, no shoes, sold in a lithographed schoolhouse box.
Three Little Pigs set
10" pigs (each identical except for the colors of their plaid dresses), 9.5" wolf has a different head mold than the Riding Hood wolf, with shorter snout. Sold in a boxed set.
Goo-Goo Eye Dolls
14", 19" and 27" dolls with composition heads and stuffed cloth bodies. Flat celluloid eyes with moving pupils. Hair ribbon or hat stapled to head, printed fabric body.
15" Topsy and Eva Goo-Goo dolls were more elaborate with flesh-colored bodies, separate outfits and wigs.
Ventriloquist dolls and marionettes
A variety of ventriloquist dolls were made, including 14" Dummy Clown and 20" Dummy Dan, with composition heads and arms, cloth body and legs, large painted side-glancing eyes, moving jaws. 12" Charlie McCarthy-type is all compo, jointed only at the jaw. 17" Marionettes have compo head, hands and feet, wooden dowels for legs and moving jaws.
Dummy Don
All composition, 10" tall, similar to Dummy Dan but without the jointed jaw.
Sources for this page include:
- "Collector's Encyclopedia of American Composition Dolls, 1900-1950" by Ursula R. Mertz
- "Collector's Encyclopedia of American Composition Dolls, 1900-1950, Volume II" by Ursula R. Mertz
- "Compo Dolls 1928-1955" by Polly and Pam Judd
- "Composition & Wood Dolls and Toys" by Michele Karl
Copyright 2005-2006 by Zendelle Bouchard.
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