Raggedy andy
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They had thick cardboard hearts inside their chests. The first mass-produced dolls continued in the same style, with a deliberately handmade look. These dolls are unmarked and are extremely rare. It is believed they had real candy hearts inside their chests. Most were dressed in brown calico prints. The earliest Raggedy Ann dolls made by the Gruelle family have brown yarn hair, shoe button eyes, and crudely painted or stenciled features. The dolls' designs evolved, but even today, Raggedy Ann resembles the early illustrations, with a smiling face, triangle nose, yarn hair, and striped legs. The Knickerbocker Toy Company produced them from 1963 to 1982.
#Raggedy andy license
Georgene Novelties held the license from 1938 to 1963. Various companies made the dolls over the years. Eventually, the Gruelle family was successful in getting their trademark reinstated. Several years of legal wrangling followed. Goldman even applied for a trademark on the Raggedy Ann and Andy names. Dollmaker Mollye Goldman began producing Raggedies, unbeknownst to Gruelle. In the 1930s, Gruelle’s original patent expired. As more books were published, additional characters were produced, including Beloved Belindy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees. That Christmas, the Gruelles could not keep up with the demand for the dolls, so they agreed with Volland to mass-produce them. Volland published the first book, Raggedy Ann Stories. Over the next few years, the ideas for the stories associated with her were developed. Gruelle family members produced the first Raggedy Ann dolls in Norwalk, Connecticut. However, he applied for a patent on Raggedy Ann several months before Marcella's passing in 1915. One of the most often repeated is that the death of Gruelle's young daughter, Marcella, spurred the creation of the doll. Many legends surround the origin of the Raggedy Ann character. In the early 1900s, he found an old, handmade rag doll in the family attic and was inspired by it. Gruelle was born in 1880 in Illinois and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Raggedy Ann was the creation of author and illustrator Johnny Gruelle.