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I
don't know exactly when the Dolly Toy Company of Chilicothe - alias Tippecanoe
City - alias Tipp City - ,Ohio started making Christmas houses, but it's
sometime in the mid-to-late '30's. Some of their prewar stuff was rather
interesting and originally quite colorful.From 1940 on, they are also quite
plentiful - being virtually all that was available during WW II and for
some years after - but hard to find in nice condition. The inks have faded
and grown dull on their printies, and their method of manufacture with deep
die-cuts at the corners and unpainted edges have given them poor wearing
qualities. They come apart after relatively little handling; the edges separate
and fray.Still, if that's what happened to be underneath your tree as a
preschooler (it's what we had) you will want to have some just the same.
The designs were limited in number and detail, but they had great paper
doors and windows! |
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