Raggedy andy
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Volland, licensed the Non-Breakable Doll & Toy Company to mass-produce dolls which were sold along with each copy of the book.
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Johnny Gruelle entertained Marcella by inventing stories about Raggedy Ann, and in 1918, published a book containing some of those stories. Body has loosely jointed limbs stuffed with white cotton long face with hand-painted features brown yarn hair candy heart in body homespun calico dress and white apron typically marked with rubber-stamped date on tummy/back or unmarked very rare.
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The first 200 or so dolls to be sold commercially where handmade by members of the Gruelle family. He gave it to Marcella and it became her favorite toy. Johnny retrieved that original doll from his mother’s attic. Different accounts vary, but one version of the legend goes that after his own daughter, Marcella, was born in 1902. The very first Raggedy Ann was made by Johnny Gruelle’s mother for his sister. A favorite of many generations, I have stitched together her evolution to remember 100 years of memories. A little over one hundred years later, the beloved rag doll celebrated her centennial. Why was she called Raggedy Ann? Johnny and Marcella came up with the name by combining the titles of two poems, “The Raggedy Man” and “Little Orphan Annie.” written by a family friend, the poet James Whitcomb Riley. The brainchild of Johnny Gruelle, the initial patent for Raggedy Ann granted for an “all-cloth doll will show button eyes, a painted face, brown yarn hair, a dress, pantaloons, a pinafore, striped legs, and black cloth shoes” in 1915. There is the teddy bear, jigsaw puzzles, Crayola crayons, and Raggedy Ann & Andy. There are not many toys that have been around for 100 years or more.