I have just been very very bad.....

c 1960 pedigree doll. knitted outfit.12 inches tall.£2.00 I just bought this doll on Ebay.......

I am getting very excited about collecting 1960's dolls. this is just one that I bought! Below is a little information I looked up about her in anticipation of her arrival.....

The pedigree Doll company


Pedigree 1942-1970's known as Tri=ang line Brothers.
Located in Exeter England. They Launched Sindy doll in 1963 and action figure Tommy Gunn 1966. The Sindy doll (1960's-1980's) was 80 per cent of their sales.
Pedigree was a subisary if Lines Brothers and later Dunbee-Combex- Marx. Dunbee collapsed in 1980 and pedigree moved to "holding company" Tamwade. In March 1982 Pedigree closed its factory in Wellingborough Northampton. It was rumoured the either Tonka or Hasro would take over but this did not happen. Though Hasbro bought the rights to Sindy doll.(1986) then in 1998 returned the rights as sales were bad. Sindy was then licenced to Vivid imaginations who relaunched her in 1999....

So now I must get me one of the old Sindy dolls from the 1960's too. I have seen a few,,,they will not be so cheap as this one I just bought...sadly!


c 1960s Roddy doll. vinyl doll. 16 inches.£3.00

This little Roddy doll will be arriving too.....




c 1960s 20 inch pedigree doll. in vintage dress.£4.00

I have just been really bad and bought these dolls. I have also just bought another in an auction......oh whoopsy.




c 1960s rosebud doll wearing a possible original dress.

This is the Rosebud doll I won the auction for.....Cute!? yep. I had to really.So here is some info about her. Does this make me feel any better about all these purchases? hell yes!!!

Rosebud Dolls.



Rosebud Company doll mark 1947-1968. when the company started making vinyl dolls it added a rose symbol along with the Rosebud name.

Rosebud was the brand name of Nene Plastics who started to make composition dolls around 1947. These had "rosebud" stamped into the back of the doll. This made a "rosebud" doll unique as other doll manufacturuers at this time did not mark their dolls. A rosebud was Obvious and the marking of the doll inspired confidence in the product and made it easier to sell to retailers and parents alike.
Miss Rosebud was introduced in Early 1950's and was produced for ten years by Rosebud doll and toy company.





The dolls were advertised as having distinctive personality!



Rosebud are pretty plump little dolls and made from the strongest lightweight hard plastic and stood seven and a half inches tall. Each had five joints, detailed limbs and blue "sleep eyes".Prices were from three shillings!!!

In 1968 the Rosebud company was bought by Mattel. When Mattel started to produce these dolls it added a rosebud symbol to to the rosebud name on the doll back.

.....https://www.britishpathe.com/video/dolls-factory    Here is a link to a film showing the Mattel factory producing Rosebud dolls if you are interested.

Rosebud Mattel toy factory, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

"M/S of J.R. Ashby, the Finance Director of Rosebud Dolls, sits writing at a desk. Suddenly, about eight walking dollies (toys, not birds) in pink dresses come waddling along on the floor. John Dennis, the Factory Manager, enters, picks up a doll and discusses it with the man at the desk.

Various shots show the making of the dolls in the factory: the heads are sculpted in plasticine; the plastic heads (moulded from the plasticine) have blonde hair sewn onto them and lips and eyebrows spray-painted on through a mask. The designer sculpting a doll's head is Peter Nevett. Nice M/S of eye-less heads travelling along a conveyor belt; the eyes are then inserted into the eye-holes, and a young girl combs the hair into a fashionable (rather bouffant) style. Another girl, Sharon Liggins, fits a little '60s dress onto a black doll.

We see a finished doll that cries when you pull its arm (not very nice, is it?). Three talking dolls have their strings pulled and 'speak'; Bugs Bunny and Dr. Doolittle introduce themselves; Chatty Cathy seems a little confused - in an overdubbed voice she says "My name is Rosebud" - I expect mentioning her real name would have been advertising. The three toys all speak again, then Bugs says "I'm sleepy".

Note: on file is correspondence from the PR officer for Rosebud Mattel; Pathe evidently bought some of the dolls from this story and donated them to the Variety Club's toy fund. Cuts exist - see separate record.

Information provided by Alwyn York, who worked at Rosebud Dolls from 1958 until their closedown in 1982.

Rosebud Dolls always showed at the British Toy Fair and Mr. York believes this video was a preview for the Toy Show and confirmed that it was filmed at the Westfield Road Factory, Wellingborough. Rosebud Dolls became Mattel Ltd. and then Burbank Toys Ltd. (part of the DCM group)."

I got this from https://www.britishpathe.com/video/dolls-factory . and wish to give them full credit.



Hard plastic moulds became redundant and were no longer required by this company and then left for disposal. Some of these redundant mould found their way to be sold and were bought by smaller firms such as Amanda Jane, Roddy and Faerie Glen which were emerging by 1961.


The first company to use a mould from Rosebud was Amanda Jane. The doll was named "jinx" and of course looked very like Rosebud as she was from the same mould. "jinx" was simply marked "england" across the small of the back.
Rosebud moulds were also used for Faerie Glen twin dolls Tonie and Sally. They also had the same features. Tonie and Sally were unmarked at first then with "Roddy" after Faerie Glen purchased mouldings from H.Stone and co.

Harry H.G. Stone & Company doll tag Chiltern Toys 1920-1967

  - subsidiary L. Rees & Company, sold to Chad Valley 1967

Faerie Glen dolls....

Toni and sally from Faerie Glen c1960.

And whilst I am on the subject of buying dolls ...there are some autions that I have bidded on that finish today........Just checked on this...I have been outbid on one of them. So I must stick to my guns and not up my bid as they are only worth it for me if I get them at a reasonable price. 

must not go silly now!!!there are plenty of these dolls around.

But then I did " go silly"... and the result is...

c 1960 Vintage 10" Arranbee R & B hard plastic bent knee Doll with vinyl head



1963 8" Eegee Shelley doll

and an unknown make doll......cut though.