Baby Sunny Boy

Name:  Baby Sunny Boy

Made by and When:  Annette Himstedt from the Himie Puppen Kinder Collection, 2001

Material:  Vinyl head, lower arms, and lower legs; pellet-filled doe suede upper arms and body to the upper thighs

Marks: (Incised in the head) Sunny / Himie 2001 KP Annette Himstedt©; (incised along the edges of the arms and legs) Himie 2001 KP Annette Himstedt©; (ribbon body tag) Annette Himstedt©; all articles of clothing are tagged Annette Himstedt©; has a care-instructions hangtag.

Height: 20 inches

Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Clothes: Chestnut-colored curly human hair wig with blonde highlights, hazel glass eyes, upper and lower painted eyelashes, open mouth with two sculpted lower teeth.

Clothes: White cotton romper with light and dark blue circle print fabric; green plush jacket, hat, and booties; white diaper

Other: From the 2001 Himie Collection, Baby Sunny Boy is one of the first two baby dolls in this collection. Baby Sunny Boy has a weighted body and a dimpled left cheek and chin.

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Published by DeeBeeGee

Doll collector, historian, co-founder of the first e-zine devoted to collecting black dolls; author of black-doll reference books, doll blogs, and doll magazine articles.

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