Mark Farmer Doll Parts

Description

Welcome To the American Sportsman Your Hunting & Fishing Place Most of the things we have are listed here on E-bay are in our Retail store in Trenton Mo.  Were the biggest little store around. Most of the stuff we carry, we use it in the field, whether hunting or fishing We will get your item sent right out and if it is out of stock we will get it to you as fast as we can.
Description:
The Narodna Radinost dolls from Yugoslavia were available to American doll collectors during the 1950's and 1960's from the Mark Farmer Company. The Mark Farmer Company of California started life in the 1940''s  and is usually associated with Jennie June the very popular reproduction china doll they began selling in the spring of 1949.
However the catalogs also offered a wide variety of dolls from around the world with a particularly plentiful number of Japanese dolls including Kokeshi and Hakatas. WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organisation) dolls from Israel, Maria Helena's Portuguese dolls and Navajo dolls made by America's first people can all be found.
Of interest to me are the dolls from Yugoslavia which are described in the catalogs as being of unbelievable detail and hand work. Pictured above are an 8" male doll and a 5" female doll. The catalogs also offered the smallest Yugoslavian dolls in the 1 1/2 and 3 1/2 inch sizes. The use of  photos has been especially useful in my quest for dolls and, coupled with the Kimport catalogs (
Kimport Dolls
), the Mark Farmer catalogs have been a wonderful source of information and entertainment.