Extremely Rare ~ You are viewing the very first issue EARLY PATENT Effanbee Dy-Dee in the 15" size from 1934.
This is the SECOND of two I have had in my collection for many years now. I had a brown-eyed baby and now am offering my blue-eyed girl.
She is documented by her 'rubber stamp' marking on her back, unlike the subsequent issue where the worldwide patent numbers are embossed as part of the rubber body. This is documented in Barbara Hilliker's Dy-Dee book on page 26. Stamp simply states 'Effanbee Dy-Dee Baby' with the patent numbers. She is very, very rare and even rarer to find one that although worn and crazed is still intact. I have only seen a short handful of them in 30 years, and this is the only one where all limbs are intact and movable with blue eyes.
Further, she wears the earliest and pristine long gown with cut embroidered collar with a 1934 NRA tag sewn into the back bodice seam. The NRA Blue Eagle label, denoting compliance with Manufacturing Codes, was used in the U.S. from 1933 to 1935. The NRA was declared unconstitutional in 1935. The gown has the matching slip, and she wears her original pink silk long coat... however, please note there was a fair bit of separation to the fabric at the bodice under her wide collar in the front, which I have repaired with fusible facing to stabilize; this works but it is very delicate; additionally both sleeve split along the outer crease, so consider the coat a bonus and take care with it. It makes for a grand display.
Her box and brochure are both from 1934 and marked as such (see photos). Her DIARY is also included and has not been written in as yet.
She has her original nursing bottle, first-issue bubble pipe, birdseye weave diaper, undershirt, early white drop seat pajamas with shell buttons, and 'eiderdown' robe.
Cuddle her in her original pink eiderdown blanket in, again, the one of the earliest patterns.
Historically this particular Dy-Dee deserves a place in a doll museum, but I offer her today to those who can appreciate her and treasure her as she is. . . THERE IS NO RESTORATION to this little one other than her eyes have been reset to ensure they remain intact.
Baby has no rubs to her pretty face but for the 'tippy-tip'of her nose which I did touch-up; and has only the softest rubs to the raised molding to her hair. She has a more pensive countenance than her 'sister' which I sold in my shop recently -- and begs for a home that will love her forever.
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