Who is making the best Raggedy Ann dolls today?
Taste in dolls will always be subjective, but I believe that most Raggedy Ann doll collectors will agree with me when I eagerly share this link with you to R John Wright’s Raggedy Ann Dolls. I was stunned when I first saw these exquisitely made dolls. Look at their wonderful clothing. Raggedy Ann even has a blue trimmed handkerchief in her pocket. The dolls are 17″ tall, and made of wool felt. Their hair is of wool yarn, and is a nice compromise, in my opinion, between the original brown and fire engine red that has appeared on Raggedy Ann’s head over the last 100 years. Perhaps the thing to give the doll collector the biggest smile about these wonderful new Raggedy Ann dolls is that a wooden ‘candy’ heart, detectable to the touch, has been sewn inside of them! Old legends can be powerful things.
