Incassable 301-1 Bleuette

Hello, bon jour! to a new member of my Bleuette family, a 301-1 incassable whose head is made of pressed paper and glue, also called pasteboard.  She is 29 cm, and dates from 1939 onward, a wartime Bleuette.  She has blue glass eyes on a rocker, though a few from this era have acetate eyes.  Those were not continued, but apparently served a purpose at the time.

You can compare her to my Rosette-sized incassable 301 below.  The pressed paper heads were a speciality of the SFBJ throughout their manufacturing years (1899 to 1957),  and sometimes cost more than a corresponding bisque head.  To be able to purchase a doll with an unbreakable head must have been a selling point with parents of rambunctious little girls!

Don't confuse composition with pasteboard, although both are incassable.

Bijou, a 29 cm Bleuette composition-head 301-1&1/2.

Composition is a poured material like porcelain, not pressed like pasteboard.

My incassable "SFBJ Paris" doll.

Another 301 mold incassable of larger size in my collection.

A slightly taller-than-Bleuette 301 incassable cousin.

Marilu, the Argentinian, Bleuette-inspired 16" incassable.

Happy Holidays from "About Bleuette!"

May all your dolls have unbroken heads, if not unbreakable!