👶🏻🍼Precious Is An Antique Bye Lo Bisque Baby Doll Soft Body 16 Inches👶🏻🍼

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Antique Bye Lo Porcelain Baby Doll Soft Body 16 Inches Bisque
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Bye-Lo dolls were baby dolls in the early 1920s with life-like heads and were very popular with the young girls of that time
,1920.
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"Precious" is a cloth body baby doll
and is a 16” doll.  She is hand made and painted.  She comes with original clothes.
Slip has deteriorated in some places (look at photos) and the doll comes with a blue dress and bonnet trimmed with colored lace and a diaper.Grace Storey Putnam is the designer of this type of doll to look and feel like a real three-day-old infant.
This particular baby belonged to a collector of dolls. This is one of her original dolls from her collection that needs a new home.
The artist for Bye-Lo Babies was Grace Storey Putnam, an American woman, who wanted to make a doll that could be cuddled. She modeled the doll’s head after a three day old baby who she saw at a California Salvation Army hospital nursery. The beautiful baby girl was not swaddled
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Ms. Putnam probably sketched the baby, and then made a wax model which she patented. She presented her design to George S. Borgfeldt in 1922, and the doll was manufactured by several German companies, including Alt Beck & Gottschalck and Kestner.
The Bye-Lo baby did so well on the market that it became known as the million dollar baby.
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