Norah Wellings Type Jolly Boy Sailor Doll with Hat - "MS Wolfsburg"
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Norah Wellings Type Jolly Boy Sailor Doll with Hat - "MS Wolfsburg"
I am always fascinated when I have the opportunity to learn about a treasure I have found and am seeking to sell. It's wonderful too when my treasure finds it's home with someone who can appreciate it..
This vintage sailor doll is wearing a hat that reads "MS Wolfsburg" on the brim. The velvet cloth doll shows signs of aging, faded blue velvet etc but is in excellent vintage condition. The doll is not signed but is clearly in the style of a Norah Wellings doll.
Norah Wellings was a British doll maker who among other dolls she made Jollyboys’ which were produced in a variety of sizes, but all with the name of a navy ship or ocean liner on the hatband and nearly all with bare feet.
When Norah Wellings retired in the late 1950s, the Cunard Shipping Company asked another well-known British doll maker, Peggy Nisbet, to supply them with sailor dolls. Norah had no objection to Peggy making the dolls but was unwilling to share her patterns or techniques. The untrained eye might mistake a Peggy Nisbet sailor doll for a Norah Wellings ‘Jollyboy’. From the 1960s other companies also copied the sailor dolls, and this included a company called Empire. These dolls are often found with a sticker ‘Empire ‘ under the collar and were made well into the 1980s.
This doll does not have a cloth head, it appears to be a composition head with a cloth velvet and felt body. The felt hands and feet are definitely identical to a Norah Wellings doll in that they have fingers and toes. But I have not read that any Norah Wellings dolls had composition heads.
Nevertheless, it is a little bit of history and a very sweet vintage sailor doll which most likely was made by Peggy Nisbet or the company Empire.
I am always fascinated when I have the opportunity to learn about a treasure I have found and am seeking to sell. It's wonderful too when my treasure finds it's home with someone who can appreciate it..
This vintage sailor doll is wearing a hat that reads "MS Wolfsburg" on the brim. The velvet cloth doll shows signs of aging, faded blue velvet etc but is in excellent vintage condition. The doll is not signed but is clearly in the style of a Norah Wellings doll.
Norah Wellings was a British doll maker who among other dolls she made Jollyboys’ which were produced in a variety of sizes, but all with the name of a navy ship or ocean liner on the hatband and nearly all with bare feet.
When Norah Wellings retired in the late 1950s, the Cunard Shipping Company asked another well-known British doll maker, Peggy Nisbet, to supply them with sailor dolls. Norah had no objection to Peggy making the dolls but was unwilling to share her patterns or techniques. The untrained eye might mistake a Peggy Nisbet sailor doll for a Norah Wellings ‘Jollyboy’. From the 1960s other companies also copied the sailor dolls, and this included a company called Empire. These dolls are often found with a sticker ‘Empire ‘ under the collar and were made well into the 1980s.
This doll does not have a cloth head, it appears to be a composition head with a cloth velvet and felt body. The felt hands and feet are definitely identical to a Norah Wellings doll in that they have fingers and toes. But I have not read that any Norah Wellings dolls had composition heads.
Nevertheless, it is a little bit of history and a very sweet vintage sailor doll which most likely was made by Peggy Nisbet or the company Empire.
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