The Popularity Of Kewpie Dolls
The Kewpie doll owed its beginnings to Rose O’Neill in which the character was based on the illustrations of her comic strip character which initially appeared in 1909 in the Ladies’ Home Journal. The first Kewpie dolls were handcrafted in Germany in the small town of Ohrdruf under the company J.D. Kestner. The dolls were…