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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 157001, member: 44&quot;]Brook, the links GG listed are about the best you will find out there for Skookum doll info. I have one that an uncle gave me from a SW trip he took in 1947. Mine is a 7 1/2&quot; woman wrapped in a blanket with paper tape covered feet (&quot;paper tape moccasins replaced the leather ones c1940s).</p><p><br /></p><p>Without a label on a doll sometimes you can date it by their feet coverings and/or mask. It seems the earliest Skookums were apple heads. Composition masks were used from c1920 to c1940.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The earliest of these [composition masks] were somewhat primitive but as production increased new styles were added and the facial features became more refined.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The plastic masks were introduced in the 1940s and continued into the 1960s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nowwww the feet on yours are unusual. They do not have leather, paper taped or plastic molded moccasins. Somewhere I read that the earliest dolls sometimes didn&#039;t have feet. Yours do appear to have feet but covered in a fabric. On the following page the top pic in the right column shows a set of feet wrapped in a fabric; however, this is on an apple headed doll. I&#039;m not sure if the mask on yours is composition or plastic. Composition dates c1920 to c1940. Plastic dates after 1940.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.skookumnews.com/past/v2n2spng2002/Pages/02feature.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.skookumnews.com/past/v2n2spng2002/Pages/02feature.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.skookumnews.com/past/v2n2spng2002/Pages/02feature.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>How tall is your doll - The taller the more valuable. The eyes on yours are looking right as the big majority of them. A left looking doll are rarer; therefore, more valuable.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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