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Flagg Doll Company Los
Angeles Dodgers Doll |
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Item Details |
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CIRCA
- 1958-1962
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MANUFACTURER
- Flagg and Company
Inc
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SIZE
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7"
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PIECES
- Bat, Cap
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PRICE GUIDE
- $150. - $300.
Vary Good -
Excellent Condition
Information
Provided by:
Keymancollectibles.com
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Flagg and Company, Inc. manufactures
of flexible play dolls, was located at
91 Boylston St. Jamaica Plain 30,
Massachusetts. The firm began just
after WWII from the home of
founders, Sheila and Charles Flagg.
The couple met
during the war while she worked in a
factory and he served at the Navy ship
yard. Sheila was the artistically
creative side of the partnership,
sculpting the dolls from soap,
designing and sewing their clothes, and
painting their hair and faces. Charles
was the mechanically creative partner.
He made the molds, created the special
casting oven, designed a hydraulic
press to cut out the clothing, and
invented a stapler to affix the
clothing to the dolls. The company
closed in 1985.
The company specialized in miniature dollhouse dolls, and also created 7
inch, hand painted dolls with such
themes as storybook characters,
professions, and international custom
dressed dolls. By 1951 Flagg issued a 7" flexible sports Series doll, that included; Ski Girl,
Tennis Girl, Skating Girl, Golf Girl,
Drum Marionette, Bathing Beauty, and a
Baseball Player in uniform, hat, and
bat. The generic baseball player dolls,
came in the same style box as all the
other dolls, but with no team name on
the jersey. Some had a different color
scheme.
The Flagg Doll company manufactured
special baseball player Dolls for Danny
Goodman wearing a Dodger uniform. Danny Goodman, the Los Angeles Dodger
marketing genius known as the greatest
baseball paraphernalia salesman in the
history of the game. Goodman introduced the
bobble head doll to the U.S. market,
the idea brought over from Japan in the
1950s. The Dodger dolls were sold as
souvenirs at Memorial Coliseum, and
were also made available by Danny
Goodman Concessions, through the mail
for $2.00.
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