The Forties Paperdolls 1

WELCOME TO THE FABULOUS FORTIES

These items just happened to end up in my collection because they came to me in boxlots and I liked them when I saw them. My primary objective was and is to replace my childhood collection which encompasses the late fifties and sixties.

Even though I don't really collect Forties stuff, I still have quite a few sets and so have arranged them alphabetically on three pages. Items on any of these pages are not for sale, however due to thinning my collections, some of the items have been sold and as thus are no longer available for closeups, etc.

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A - H	A - H continued	I - P	Q - Z
Air Hostess	Girls in Uniform	Jaunty Juniors	Quiz Kids
Airliner Paper Dolls	Glamour Girls	Little Miss America	Raggedy Ann
Army Navy Wedding Party	Gone with the Wind	Little Red Schoolhouse Kindergarten	School Girl Paperdolls
Army Nurse and Doctor	Good Neighbour	Jeanette MacDonald *	Seven & Seventeen
Blondie Paperdolls	High School *	Miss America	Six Grown-Up Paperdolls *
Boarding School	Hour of Charm	Miss Silver Screen	Sixteen
Bridal Party Dolls		Mother and Daughter Paperdolls	6 Movie Starlets *
Bride and Groom		Movie Starlets	Sub-Deb Paperdolls
Coke Crowd, The		Navy Girls *	Summer Date *
Cover Girls		Navy Scouts *	Sweet 16
Dionne Quints		Margaret O'Brien *	Sweetheart Paperdolls
Dress Me!		Our World Paperdolls	Teen Time Dolls
Dude Ranch		Paperdoll Party	Teen Town
Fashion Previews *		Paper Doll Wedding	Three Little Sisters
First Date		Eleanor Parker	3 Wood Dolls
Francis Tipton Hunter Paperdolls		Party of 6 Paperdolls *	Tots Toggery
Ava Gardner		Pert and Pretty	Lana Turner
Judy Garland		Pig Tails Cut-Out Book	Watch Me Grow
Girl Friends *		Pilot and Stewardess Airliner Paperdolls	Ziegfeld Girl
Girl Pilots of the Ferry Command *		Pollyanna

THE THIRTIES	THE FIFTIES	THE SIXTIES	THE SEVENTIES
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Airliner Paper Dolls

A - H

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Air Hostess

Saalfield 2546

1947

Airliner Paper Dolls

Merrill 3423

1941

Army Navy Wedding Party

Saalfield 2446

1943

Army Nurse and Doctor

Merrill 3425

1942

Blondie Paperdolls

By Stock No.	Chronologically
963	1941 - 996
967	1943 - 975
974	1945 - 993
975	1947 - 967
993	1949 - 963
996	1950 - 974
1180	1954 - 1180

In the words of Dean Young, the son of the strip creator and current producer of the strip,

"The Blondie comic strip was created by my father, Chic Young, in the year 1930. Blondie began her cartoon life in the same flighty, pretty-girl flapper image of my dad's earlier strips (some of which, in his own words, were better not remembered!).

For historical purposes, they were: "The Affairs of Jane," "Beautiful Bab," and "Dumb Dora" (appropriately subtitled, "She's Not So Dumb As She Looks").

Anyway, Blondie Boopadoop was this gorgeous flapper who had a ton of boyfriends...one of whom was Dagwood Bumstead. Dagwood, in those days, was the bumbling, playboy son of billionaire railroad tycoon, J. Bolling Bumstead. In his town, J. Bolling not only owned all of the property on his side of the track, but also all the property on the other side of the track....plus 3,000 miles of the track!"

Dagwood's rich father and mother thought Blondie was a golddigger and beneath his status. Sadly for Dagwwod, when he married Blondie he was disinherited and had to make a living like the rest of us!

Blondie paperdolls were made throughout the forties, fifties and sixties by Whitman, Saalfield and Dell Paperdoll companies. The most prolific were the sets made in the forties by Whitman.

Saalfield made a set in 1940 which became a Whitman set #982 featuring Alexander as Baby Dumpling. However it is listed in Tomart's guide as #996 from 1941.

Boarding School

Merrill 3492

1942