Barbara
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February's brunette of the month is the beautiful Barbara who belongs to Brigitte.
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It is always nice to know were dolls come from, and luckily I know some of the history of this beauty. It is about seven years that I have seen her first on a Swiss sales portal but her price was out of what I could pay. With the help of some doll friends I bought her a few months later and I am very happy to have her in my collection. Her ex-mom went to the Sasha’s studio with her mother and got her from the artist’s hands. She was a present from her mother for finishing the school for kindergarten teacher. Barbara was chosen because the lady wanted a doll that looks like a gipsy girl, she is quite dark, and I have never seen another like her. (Except of the ethnic dolls with the special clothes of course.) Barbara moved to South America and back to Switzerland and was most of her time in the kindergarten were her owner was teaching.
I have been told the original socks were olive green but lost, the lady said she did not like them.
So her socks are new, made by me, the rest is original clothing, but not labelled
Brigitte.
Thank you Brigitte for giving us some of your lovely studio girl's history it is so nice to know why she was purchased by her first owner and where's she's travelled.
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I think Brigitte's sock's are a lovely match for her dress. Thank you Brigitte for sharing her and her history with us.
If not for collector's like yourself, who are willing to take photo's and share them , we would never have a chance to see these beauties .
Brigitte forgot to send and I forgot to ask for the close up photo! So Brigitte asked why I had two that looked the same and we realised our mistake!! so now the close up shot is at the beginning.
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Wie wunderbar schön sie ist:) Eine Traumpuppe - es ist auch sehr interessant sie in ihrer Original Kleidung zu sehen. Ganz vielen herzlichen Dank für das Teilen der Fotos:)!!
ReplyDeletesie ist in der Tat schön und ihre Kleider haben sehr gut überstanden :)
DeleteI'm here SS-R and Mrs Mum although it looks like I'm only competing against myself these days so might have to call it a day!
ReplyDeleteThink of the stress you'd save if you gave up now SSr is taken elsewhere !
DeleteBarbara is gorgeous and what a superb pedigree, especially travelling so far and 'working' in a kindergarten.
ReplyDeleteShe is indeed and It's great to know her history and that thousands od Children have met her over the years.
DeleteWhat a beautiful doll to start the month of February and enjoyed hearing the story behind how she came to be where she is now. The CIII's are my favourite of the Studio Dolls facial and body styles.
ReplyDeleteI remember when I first saw and held a few of these dolls in 1996 I was amazed at how much bigger (and heavier if they had the 'C' bodies) they were than the manufactured series.
They are quite cumbersome to dress and play with (and need a fair amount of space to display) which makes me think that it must have been rather difficult for the younger child, in those days, to actually play with them. This could well be the reason that so many have survived in such wonderful condition..... whereas it is quite rare to find the much smaller studio babies, which are so much smaller and more younger child 'playable' with in such good condition.
Barbara is truly gorgeous and I just adore her facial look and hair colour and style. Many thanks to both Brigitte and you for sharing her here.
Wishing all Sasha collectors a wonderful month and a very happy day to February's birthday folks.
She is definately a stunner and fabulous for starting off this winter month with her warm coloured clothing.
DeleteYes I to wish all the february Birthday folks a very happy day, my eldest being one of them :)
I, too, remember having had the same thoughts when I first saw a Studio doll. This was some years ago and although that time I had the chance to buy two Studio dolls for very few money I didn't - because I thought they were too large and somewhat "oversized". Some years later I was very sorry for not having taken that unique chance to purchase two very beautiful original Studio dolls in as new condition...
DeleteI remember when I was a Little child my favourite doll (besides a Sasha baby) was a Schildkröt-babydoll which was about 55cm. I took the doll with me everywhere I went - even when I went hill-walking with my parents in the summer holidays. My mother desperately tried to convince me not to take the doll with me when we went up the montain - she had no chance, I wanted the doll to see that beautiful landscape and to have a great day with our familly. It was hard for me to carry the doll throughout our montain trip, but I did it. When I think of this childhood scene I am reminded of Sasha Morgenthaler saying that a child's doll needs to be heavy and not too easy to handle - this makes the doll more "real" to a child, I think. For me this was definitely true - I loved my huge babydoll more than any other doll (except the Sasha baby which I did not have that time but was given a few years later). Maybe this is the reason why the Studio Sashas are quiet big and heavy compared to the later manufactured dolls?
Hi Distel
DeleteI have been wondering more and more about the role of the Sasha dolls in the lives of children. We PLAYED with them when I was young. Those oh, so valuable, Frido dolls lived our lives with us and joined in our roughest games - swimming, jumping off hay stacks, sleeping out in snow storms, riding on our pet ram. Like your baby doll, they enjoyed seeing and doing the same things as my cousins and I enjoyed.
Though ours were commercially made and much lighter than studio dolls, they were realistic and sturdy and, contrary to their current lives, tended to be very adventurous.
Sometimes, when I see a NP doll for sale for £2000 or so , I wonder if she once belonged to my cousin and went swimming in the river or was buried in the sand on the beach! Now, I would love to hear from somebody who had a studio doll as a child - were they real toys or did parents tell the child they were just to look at?
Jenni
Hi Distel
DeleteIt is lovely to hear from you. It was interesting to hear Kendal's comments about the weight of the studio dolls. I wonder if the reason they are still in such good condition was partly due to weight and partly due to cost ! Maybe although the Mother bought them for their children , they really wanted a keepsake of that child and the Studio was kept to be admired but not played with , which is why Sasha then decided that she wanted to produce a doll that was FOR the children truly.
I think as Jenni says the Vinyl dolls produced from the 60's were probably the first to be used and abused by children as Sasha wanted.
You must wish that you had bought at least one of those Studio dolls you saw when the cost was low but maybe they did not appeal enough or you would have despite their size and weight.
I think it's lovely that you dragged your doll everywhere the sign of a true doll lover :)
Hi Dee
DeleteI spent most of my childhood reading or playing dolls or crafting - so I suppose I must have been the typical "girl", whereas my sister hated playing dolls and preferred to play with cars or lego (plastic bricks?). My parents had a big garden which was perfect for playing dolls outside.
As Jenni said dolls were play dolls. Unfortunately I only had a Sasha baby although I desperately wanted a fair haired Sasha girl. I never got one (that's the reason why I am collecting Sasha dolls now, I suppose ;-)). But the dolls I had were taken into garden, their hair was combed a thousand times, they sat on the grass and were dressed and undressed not very carefully. They were "fed" with "meals" made of leaves, water and sand. They were dolls to play with. I agree that the Studio dolls must have been much too expensive to be treated that way.
Yes, I wish I had bought the two Studio girls. They looked like twins - they had the same eye painting, hair colour and outfits. I didn't buy them since I had only just started collecting and did not know much about Sashas then.
But isn't it great that there are so many "stories" collectors can tell about missed chances or lucky finds? ;-)
She is magnificent! For about a minute, I thought that you had sold the house over the heads of your family, the Sashas and the Bears in order to buy her yourself, Dee........ do I feel a little saving up at the Village to be undertaken?
ReplyDeleteLucky Brigitte to have got exactly the doll she wanted and with provenance too! I've always wondered, were these beauties ever played with by little girls? Or have they always been collectors' pieces?
Jenni x
She is ! I wish I could see all these Studio dolls up close and hold them to see what they feel like!
DeleteThat's an idea! Do you think Paul and all the Sasha's and bears would enjoy living in the leaky workshop? it would be quicker to clean only being 17ft by 12ft....mmm.... I may have to have a think about this idea......
I think they were seen as a record of a that person as a child and admired which is why Sasha M went to a factory to have the Sasha we now own made, so that Children could play with them
Oh, come on! We've seen what Paul can do with wood - a beautiful wooden chalet home wouldn't be beyond him.....it would be in a great cause.....and it could be built to your own specifications - a Sasha studio, shelving that would hold a whole row of little boutiques... perhaps a school room for the Sashas and a nursery for the babies and toddlers....Sounds like heaven to me - and a couple of studio dolls out of the saving on council tax and...! J xx
DeleteJenni ! Jenni!! wake up!! :))
DeleteThank you for sharing so many beautiful pictures with us - so far I have not left a comment, but had a regular look at your website and admired many times the wonderful dolls and doll scenes here. It is so wonderful to be able to watch beautiful Sashas any time you want - it brightens up your day. I hope to be able to have an own Sasha-page one day, but so far I haven't managed it yet. My favourite dolls are the No-navels and I love all the wonderful No-navels that are pictured here, especially a Readhead with light blue eyes - just marvellous. Thank you very much for sharing these beautiful pictures!
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by to comment :) I am very lucky in having some wonderful Sasha friends who are happy for me to share their photo's of their Sasha's on this blog, for us all to admire.
DeleteIf you ever set up a Sasha page you must tell us so we can see your Sasha family.I to love the no navels and the new girl Martha, with the red hair and blue eyes is indeed a marvellous girl to have here and again thanks to a Sasha friend who gave me the chance to buy her.
I enjoy sharing my Sasha family with others :)
Ich finde auch dass die Kleider (und die Puppe) die Zeit erstaunlich unberührt überstanden haben. Well indeed!
ReplyDeleteHat mal jemand nachgerechnet wieviele Puppen Sasha etwa gemacht haben könnte?
Mmh -does anyone, who loves counting, has done a reseach how much studio-dolls Sasha could have made?
ja, die Kleidung sieht schön und frisch trotz ihres Alters. Ich möchte, dass vielleicht Sasha Morgenthaler Familie würde einen Rekord von ihrer Arbeit?
DeleteWould not a Museum in Switzerland have a record or her family of the number she made?
Grössere, schwerere Puppen haben, aus meiner Sicht, schon auch ihren besonderen Reiz. Ich hatte als Kind auch immer diesen Wunsch und habe sogar einmal einer Puppe den Bauch mit Steinen gefüllt, damit sie schwerer und lebensechter wurde (schäm...). Vielleicht sind die industriell hergestellten Puppen kleiner und leichter, weil die Produktion so billiger und einfacher war? Es interessiert mich auch sehr, wie viele Studio Puppen hergestellt wurden und ich werde versuchen, das herauszufinden.
DeleteDas ist interessant, dass Sie als Kind wollte Ihre Puppe schwer wie die Studio-Puppen von Sasha M gemacht zu sein, und dass Sie Steine verwendet werden, um dies zu tun.
DeleteEs wird interessant sein zu hören, was Sie über Zahl der Studio-Puppen produziert lernen.
Ich denke, Sie haben Recht, über Kosten, warum Vinyl-Puppen waren leichter, aber vielleicht auch, weil sie nicht glaube, Kinder würden schwere Puppen wollen?
Hallo Dollsgarden,
Deleteich glaube auch, dass der Grund dafür, dass die industriell hergestellten Puppen kleiner und leichter waren, finanzielle und produktionsbedingte Ursachen hat. Ich habe meine große Babypuppe als Kind geliebt, sie schien mir viel "echter" als alle anderen Puppen zu sein, eben weil sie die Größe und das Gewicht eines richtigen Babys hatte.
I too think that it was easier and cheaper to produce Serie dolls in a smaller size and with less weight than the Studio dolls.
As I child I loved the thought of having a doll which was as big and nearly as heavy as a real baby - that's why I loved my Schildkröt-babydoll very much. This doll seemed to be more "real" to me than my other dolls. Unfortunately I had a rabbit who thought that the vinyl the doll was made of tasted very fine - one day when I didn't pay attention to him he helped himself to a wonderful meal, consisting of my doll's two fingers. I was upset! Since that time my doll had to have a plaster strip around her two fingers which I changed regularly and carefully. Poor doll.
Distel, your poor doll losing two fingers to the Rabbit!! I am glad to hear that you still treat her kindly and change her dressing often.
DeleteObviously to you she was a 'real' baby and you knew that she needed to be heavy, did you have a younger brother or sister so you knew that a baby was heavy?
I am very sorry to say that the doll no longer lives with me and I have no idea what happened to the doll and her poor hand. But it's true, I have a younger sister and that was the reason why I got the baby doll as a gift from my parents. I too wanted a baby to care for like my mother did with my sister. Maybe my mother thought it would be ... uhm... safer for my sister and better for her own nerves to buy a doll for me instead of letting me play dolls with my baby sister ;-)
DeleteOh my, Barbara is a stunning, beautiful studio doll. What an amazing face, such feeling!!! My first Sasha was a studio doll and I have a very soft spot in my heart for their facial paintings. Barbara is certainly a work of art that, when you look at her, it stirs the soul. Thank you Dee and Brigitte for sharing the beauty with us :)
ReplyDeleteYou can see the thoughtfulness in her expression, A truly stunning Studio girl.
DeleteHow lovely for your first sasha to be a Studio girl. Do you still have her? I would love a Studio girl if the right one came along for a song and I was just luckl enough to see her first!!! which with all these hawkeyed sasha people would be a miracle in it's self nevermind that fact that I could buy it!!! :)
What a beautiful girl Barbara is and of course both you Dee and her mum, Brigitte, for sharing her with us. I'm finding all the talk of the Studio dolls very interesting. When I was a child I never had a Sasha of any kind but my friend and her sister had a blond Gregor and blond Sasha Gingham between them...I was quietly jealous, although to be honest, I wasn't really a dolly sort of girl, preferring to be out on my bike...and like Distel's sister, Lego! But now I'm making up for lost time! It is hard to imagine though how big and heavy the Studio dolls are, compared to their vinyl 'cousins', I would love to see one 'in the flesh' and perhaps have a little hold of her/him. They really do have such beautiful expressive faces too, and this little girl is stunning, she looks like she were produced only recently, she's that perfect!
ReplyDeleteIt's the beautiful Brigitte we need to thank for showing us her beautiful studio girl.
DeleteIt's funny that children are either for or against dolls and can either stay that way into adulthood or go totally the other way!
Me I loved my dolls and my twin dolls pram and would happy play with them for hours, then played with my girls and their dolls, me being the person who saved their dignity by dressing them and sitting them on their bottoms not stuffed head first in the toybox where they'd been left while their 'mothers' were at school and now I can play with my own dolls dressing them as I wish and dealing with their backchat when needed ...heaven.. :)
Auf dieser Seite befinden sich Pressetexte: http://www.sasha-morgenthaler-ausstellung.ch/medien.html; im langen Text steht, "dass Studio Puppen in den Jahren 1941-1975 hergestellt wurden. In den Ateliers hat eine kleine Gruppe von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern pro Jahr 200-230 Puppen produziert."
ReplyDeleteIn wie vielen und in welchen Jahren genau diese Anzahl Puppen hergestellt wurde, wissen wir damit aber noch nicht...:(
This is translation of Barbara's comment above
DeleteOn this side there are press releases: http://www.sasha-morgenthaler-ausstellung.ch/medien.html; stands in the long text, "that studio dolls were made in the years 1941-1975 in the studios has a small group. produced by employees per year 200-230 dolls. "
In how many and in which years exactly this number of dolls was made, but we still do not know it ...: (
Maybe we will learn more over time, I'll have to try reading that book I bought by the three Ann's :)
Thank you very much, Dee!
ReplyDeleteHi Dee what a lovely studio doll i love her look, thanks for sharing her Brigitte
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by Theresa and Brigitte is a darling for sharing her wonderful dolls! :)
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