Name: Amosandra/Patsy Baby
Made by and When: Effanbee, 1949 (possibly first introduced as Patsy Baby in 1936)
Material: Composition
Marks: EFFANBEE / Patsy Baby (nape of neck and mid-back)
Height: 9-1/2 inches
Hair/Eyes/Mouth: Sculpted black hair with three tufts/painted black side-glancing eyes/closed red lips
Clothes: Floral-print dress, matching panties, red ribbons in hair; has gold-tone Effanbee Patsy Baby Kin bracelet
Other: In the book, Effanbee Dolls That Touch Your Heart (Collector Books, 1983), Patricia R. Smith documents that Patsy Baby was added to the Patsy family of dolls by Effanbee after Amos and Ruby (of the Amos ‘N Andy Show) “gave birth” to Amosandra during the 1949 radio broadcast. Listeners of the radio show showered the imaginary baby (Amosandra) with gifts, including dolls. Effanbee used their Patsy Baby mold for the Amosandra doll. (The white version was introduced during the 1930s. If black versions of Effanbee’s Patsy Baby were on the market in the 1930s, the company reintroduced the doll as Amosandra in 1949 after the popularity of the radio broadcast “Amosandra is Born.”)
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