I found a #1169 Collector's Choice doll by DanDee. It is missing its hair. Do you know what her name is and what she looked like originally?
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This company makes mass-produced dolls and in any given year they can makes almost a million of them. Normally the dolls are made in lots of 1000 or more and the number normally represents the number of the doll made in that lot. Therefore, it will be almost impossible to find the exact same doll and find the name of this doll. You can go out and buy a wig for the doll and glue the wig back in place. Pick a color you want the hair to be and just enjoy the doll.
Sorry but this doll is one of many. This doll was mass produced and not worth much. She is for you to display and love.
Unless someone has original marketing materials and ads for the dolls it is so hard to figure out exactly what she looked like because today the number you gave is meaningless because people who post dolls online are mostly doing it to sell and searchable data is very limited--mostly to brand, eye color, hair color and dress color.
I used to sell dolls and for a while I had some of those old buyer catalogs we would order from, but I can't lay my hands on those old books. If I come across them, I will post back.
You may be able to find an old ad in Google images of her being sold in a magazine or maybe a newspaper circular and that would tell you. I did a quick search and came up empty, if I had more time I may be able to locate something.
Most likely (knowing the brand as I do) she is just one of the series dolls in the collection, and they did not have a name, per say, like Jane or Sue, they were just dolls in a the Collector's Choice series. The hope was the new owner would name her.
So what I can tell you in general...is this...
If she is wearing a jester outfit--the photo is not really clear so I am not positive that that is what the outfit is, she would have not had hair, but would have had a jester hat with bells or other decorations. The face isn't quite right for a jester, so that may be a wrong assessment of the outfit.
If she was just a series doll and the outfit is a dress, most of the DanDee blue eye dolls had blonde ringlets (they were very cliche in their doll creations). There were a very few blue eyed gals with straight blonde hair and maybe a rare one where they gave a blue eye doll brown ringlets.
She most likely would have had something in her hair--either a hat on her head or matching or contrasting bows in her hair, or a headband. They were a very matchy match company with their doll dressing.
Please post her back when you get her fixed up and enjoy her!!
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