Vintage 1970’s Horsham Doll Plastic Vinyl Babydoll

Description: Super cute 1970’s Horsman babydoll. Her beautiful blue gray eyes seem look they are looking right at you. Her dress is not original and handmade. It is dirty but with washing may come clean. There are some minor marks from wear. On her head her hair has some small loss of color. Her arms and head skin tone is slightly lighter than the rest of her body. She has a lovely sweet expression with her lips puckered ready for a kiss. A great gift for any collector. Please see photos for condition and description. The Horsman Company was the premiere doll manufacturing company in the United States starting in the mid to late 19th century and dominated the doll-making industry for well over a century. The E. I. Horsman Company was established in 1865 by Edward Imeson Horsman, Sr. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1843, Horsman is said to have gotten his start as an entrepreneur at age fourteen by manufacturing baseballs and selling them after school. Horsman’s company found initial success with sporting goods such as croquet sets, tennis rackets, bows and arrows. Quickly becoming world famous for its high quality products, the company was the first to manufacture dolls in the United States. By the 1870s, Horsman was traveling frequently to Europe to import goods and spent time in Germany, then the toy-making capital of the world. The first known commercially produced children’s dolls were made in Germany in the 14th century and Horsman’s trips may have influenced the decision to add dolls to the company’s product line. As early as the mid-1870s, it was selling German-made bisque-head dolls. Bisque, a fairly new material, had been introduced to the market earlier in the 19th century along with India rubber, glazed porcelain, and other materials. Prior to that, dolls were homemade from whatever substance was readily available – clay, wax, wood, bone, rag, ivory, and terra-cotta.

Price: 18 USD

Location: Lock Haven, Pennsylvania

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