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Coventina

(26,808 posts)
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 06:50 PM Jun 2019

Vague memory from my childhood...dolls wearing dresses from different countries.

My grandfather would send them to me, they were my "fancy dolls", but eventually my mother got rid of them as they got tattered.


I wish I still had them. I have the impression they were some sort of promotional item he got from a gas station maybe?

Does anybody know what I'm talking about?

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Vague memory from my childhood...dolls wearing dresses from different countries. (Original Post) Coventina Jun 2019 OP
I used to have Ginny Dolls that came from all over. LakeArenal Jun 2019 #1
These were kind of like Barbie dolls, in that they didn't look like babies. Coventina Jun 2019 #2
I tried to post an image of Ginny Dolls.. wouldn't let me.. LakeArenal Jun 2019 #3
Creepy jberryhill Jun 2019 #7
We also had these over our beds. LakeArenal Jun 2019 #8
My sister has a doll collection like that. procon Jun 2019 #4
ARCO Dolls of the World jberryhill Jun 2019 #5
YES! Those are the dolls I had! Thanks!!!! Coventina Jun 2019 #9
Madame Alexander dolls, perhaps? Tanuki Jun 2019 #6

Coventina

(26,808 posts)
2. These were kind of like Barbie dolls, in that they didn't look like babies.
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 06:57 PM
Jun 2019

But they definitely weren't Barbies.

LakeArenal

(28,673 posts)
3. I tried to post an image of Ginny Dolls.. wouldn't let me..
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 07:03 PM
Jun 2019

But Google and Etsy and Ebay have lots of Ginny Dolls

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. My sister has a doll collection like that.
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 07:10 PM
Jun 2019

All our relatives knew to buy her gift dolls to add to her collection. They were not the sort of dollies little girls played with, they were displayed in a glass curio cabinet and only rarely removed for admiring fans. Each doll had a beautifully detailed national costume and came with a display stand. I gave her a Geisha doll that came with a red kimono for a birthday gift.

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