8" Madame Alexander #558 Great Britain; Alexander Mark; Wendy Face, Mint,Box,Tag

Description: A lovely 8” Madame Alexander #558 Great Britain from the International Doll Series, ca. 1977, from Snowdrift Antiques.The Alexander Doll Company was founded in 1923 by Beatrice Alexander, aka Madame Alexander, and is still in operation today in New York, NY USA. The Alexander-Kins, Wendy, Wendy-Kins dolls, which are 7 1/2 - 8" tall, used the Wendy face mold from 1954-1994. Many of these dolls are either unmarked or marked ALEXANDER or ALEX.This is a very pretty 8” Madame Alexander doll dressed in a British regional outfit, #558. She has blue sleep eyes that open and shut with some help. Her blond hair is in its original set with curly bangs in front and a flip curl around the bottom edge. Her face has lovely painted features, I only see a tiny black dot on the outside of her left eye, see image 2, and her cheek blush is bright after all these years. She has that sweet Madame Alexander Wendy face lip pucker.She is a strung plastic doll with a socket head, and jointed arms and straight legs. The mark on her back reads: ALEXANDER. The rubber bands used to string her head and legs to her torso and her arms are still strong so she was not restrung.Her dress consists of a black cotton bodice with white puff sleeves trimmed in lace and an attached black and white pin stripe cotton skirt. She has a separate plain white cotton apron. The dress is tagged in back with a label that reads: “Great Britain” / by MADAME ALEXANDER / New York, USA. The dress closes with two snaps in back. The outfit is clean and crisp, looks like she was never played with and spent most of her days protected in her box.On her head she wears a white cotton bonnet trimmed in lace and an applied black felt hat. She also has a floral cotton scarf around her neck.Her under garments consist of white cotton pantaloons with lace trim at the hem and a white cotton slip with lace at the hem and a row of stiff net to hold the skirt out. She wears white nylon socks and faux black suede shoes.She also retains her original wrist tag tied to her left wrist; it has a copyright date of 1977.Her Madame Alexander blue box is labeled GREAT BRITAIN 558. It is in very good condition with light wear on the edges.This precious little Madame Alexander doll is looking for her new home; will it be yours?

Price: 25 USD

Location: Denver, Colorado

End Time: 2024-12-07T16:13:11.000Z

Shipping Cost: 2 USD