If You're Serious About Small Vintage Dolls, This book is a Must-Have:
DOLL BODIES PRODUCTS, INC
Doll Bodies Products, Inc. produced a really cute, strung doll (shorter than most - about 7to 7 1/2 inches tall). She is quickly identified by her unique feet with their molded-on bowed slippers:
You can't miss these feet!*
photo: My collection Note the delicately-painted lower eyelashes.
Doll Bodies, Inc. mark on the doll's back. Not all Mary Lu's are marked, however.
*Actually, some of the older PMA costume dolls and early strung fashion dolls have a similar foot, but the Doll Bodies Products doll is the only "toddler" doll with this foot. Compare:
Compare Mary Lu to Ginger: (Faces are similar but not the feet.) photo: Ebay listing
Doll Bodies Products, Inc. made many COSTUME dolls which they sold to the many companies that dressed them, as well as "dress-me" dolls for the mass market.