Name: Patsy Rosebud and Patsy Birthday Best
Made by and When: Effanbee, 2004
Material: Vinyl, paint, synthetic hair
Marks: (Heads) ©2003 Effanbee, (Backs in raised letters) EFFanBe / PATSY / PAT.PEND / DOLL
Height: 14 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouths: Rooted dark-brown curly saran hair, brown-painted eyes with painted upper and lower eyelashes, closed button mouths with red lip color
Clothes and Accessories Both dolls have an Effanbee Durable Dolls gold-tone metal bracelet with a heart-shaped charm and a gold “I am an Effanbee Doll” paper hang tag. Rosebud carries a basket of paper roses.
Rosebud wears a yellow rosebud-print dress, white one-piece underwear, a white half-slip, white knit knee socks, faux-suede white slip-on shoes with a ribbon rosebud at each toe, and a pink ribbon adorns the hair.
Birthday Best wears a mauve dress embellished with silken flowers and tiers of ruffled and printed, satin-striped ribbon layered over a taffeta skirt; white one-piece underwear, white knit socks, faux-suede mauve Mary-Jane shoes, and a mauve flower adorns the hair.
Other: Made in a limited edition of 1000 dolls each, Patsy Rosebud and Birthday Best Patsy debuted after Robert Tonner acquired the Effanbee Doll Company in 2002, gaining exclusive rights to Bernard Lipfert’s 1928 Patsy doll. While Tonner/Effanbee did use some of the original Patsy sculpts. Patsy Rosebud and Birthday Best use new Patsy sculpts.
Gallery
See the Patsykin/Patsy Jr. installation here.
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