Discover librarianselected research resources on virginia history from the questia online library, including fulltext online books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. New listing vintage 1950s 8 virga doll, unbranded, red hair, wears ginnysize clothes. Chinese painting asian art history book hardback 1969 art. The book includes the charming small storybook baby dolls that started nancy ann on her road to a successful doll, an extensive plastic storybook section, a photographic delight of the lovely style show dolls, and the matching wardrobes of muffie and debbie, the playtime dolls, along with loriann. This sparked ruths vision to create a 3d doll for girls to play out their dreams. Pretty pale green sleep eyes with molded lashes, nice face painting. Unfollow vintage story book dolls to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. They all produced similar ginny type 7 12 9 tall, hard plastic walking dolls in the 1950s. Doll marks are usually found on the the back of dolls neck, upper or lower back and possibly on bottom of the foot.
Each doll features an intricate moviestyled theme based upon fashions from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s as well as hollywoods version of historical costuming. This is a great reference book for collectors of vintage dolls. This is one of the best doll identification reference books i now own. Collectors will find the history of the nancy ann storybook doll company, help in identifying storybook dolls, and dolls for sale. Virga is hard science fiction space opera taken to the next level.
Get the best deal for virga hard plastic dolls from the largest online selection at. Once you have your mark use the below list to see the doll maker s, as some markings may have been used by more than one. The series comprises a total of 22 books by various authors and forms a companion series to the popular american girl books. The characters were generally older, ranging from ages ten to. If for any reason you dont, well try to find a way to make it right with an exchange, merchandise credit, or refund within two years of purchase. She has open and close sleep eyes that are in good working condition. Fabulous dolls of maureen fukushima ginny reference. Dark brown wig with double top stitching, long pigtails. Links about cleaning, collectingbuying, identifying, packing, photographing, repairing, and selling dolls on ebay are included. Has the tstrapped molded on shoes, seam line behind the ears, second and third fingers are together. We hope that you and your girl love your purchase from american girl. The third and fourth fingers on the hand are molded together and slightly bent inward. Purple hair lollipop virga doll 8 hard plastic ginny type. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ashes of candesce.
Interesting and engaging text and stunning color plate reproductions of. They became very popular and so many companies made similar dolls. Wellestablished doll makers like alexander doll company and ideal toy company started producing many of their most popular doll lines in hard plastic instead of the more expensive, more laborintensive, and less durable materials of dolls past. Lucy, made by virga, has a typical c shaped arm hook. Nancy ann story book dolls and similar dolls nice twice. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options.
Ginny, muffie, ginger and other 8 hard plastic dolls on. A wonderful vogue ginny reference book the fabulous dolls of maureen fukushima presented by frashers doll auction catalog. Virga p807 amy virga strung hp doll in p808 susan box. They first made small all bisque dolls, later they made hard plastic dolls. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Chinese painting asian art history book hardback 1969 art of china book by mario bussagli published by hamlyn cameo translated from original italian by henry vidon. Offering this cute vintage virga playmate hard plastic walker doll, stands 8 inches tall, no markings as was typical of these dolls, circa 1954. By signing up, you are agreeing to receive emails and notifications from american girl. Shop for books at and browse categories like young adult books, childrens books, mystery books, adult coloring books and cook books. Pardee gives the reader an opportunity to learn about the vinyl baby sue sue, a large baby with a wardrobe of her own, and offers a neverbeforeseen catalog of the extensive wardrobe of the. The plastic is hard and matches the color of the rest of the doll.
The true story of a soldiers sojourn back to vietnam by james h. Hardplastic dolls were first introduced in the late 40s, when new plastics developed during world war ii were adopted by civilian manufacturers. The first doll is an all original playmate, but the blue hat in the second picture i added. I learned quite a bit about the nancy ann storybook doll s history as well as helping me identify the dolls in my collection. Brown cloth with gold gilt on spines, sunset design of front, beautiful colors. Virga 1950s scotch lass plaid dress taffeta bloomers virga hanger. This category has both and includes such makers as kerr and hine, virga, hollywood and others. Amplify your recovery, endurance and energy naturally. Virga nile lollipop doll walker virga nile lollipop doll straight leg walker. If you win more than one of my items, please wait for me to send you an invoice.
Book five of virga kindle edition by schroeder, karl. All the colorful pictures are wonderful and have me ready to go nancy ann storybook doll shopping. Virga playmate doll brunette 1954 pigtails dollsby. New listing vintage vogue virga playmates lolli lolly pop doll purple hair 1950s era.
Mix in one part thrilling action, one part screamingcool steampunk tech, and one part worldbuilding and youve got sun of suns. They produced a large number of hard plastic and vinyl dolls during the 1950s. List of books and articles about virginia history online. Not much is known about the virga doll company, however the dolls are very similar to the vintage ginny hard plastic type dolls. Nancy ann story book doll company operated from 1936 until 1971 and was founded by nancy ann abbott in san francisco, ca usa. Vintage original vogue ginny ginger virga pam muffie doll white doll socks. Then, in 1959, the first barbie doll named after ruths daughtermade its debut at new york toy fair. Judith izen is the author of two bestselling doll books, collectors guide to ideal dolls, now in its third edition, and american character dolls, and is the coauthor of the collectors encyclopedia of vogue dolls, now in its second edition. Her hair is nice and full with full bangs and original hair style flip in back in its original set. The cosmopolitan doll company cdc of jackson heights, ny usa was founded by kathryn kay, a former sales representative for the vogue doll company. In the sunless countries, history tutor leal hieronyma maspeth became the first human in centuries to learn the true nature of this threat. Virga series by karl schroeder goodreads share book.
Get the best deals on virga hard plastic dolls when you shop the largest online selection at. Her reward was exile, but now, in ashes of candesce, artificial nature makes its final bid to destroy virga, and it is up to leal to unite the quarrelling clans of her world to fight the threat. Nancy ann story book dolls and similar dolls nancy ann story books were made in san francisco between 1930s and 1950s. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Virga doll with original red trunk case set plus extra. Doll identification and reference links this indexed list focuses on identifying dolls, not selling dolls off ebay. In addition, youll find great book recommendations that may be of interest to you based on your search and purchase history, as well as the most wished for and most gifted books. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Purple hair lollipop virga doll 8 hard plastic ginny type lollypop nicehi. Beehler, fortune, ontario plastics, virga dolls 19491950s. This site was designed to help enhance the enjoyment of collecting nancy ann dolls.