Comments on: Possible Charlotte Clark Pinocchio Doll

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:04:54 +0000

Susan, We must be relatives. Actually, we have a pluto, too. (other dolls as well) Charlotte used to visit when I was little. It would be interesting to figure out the family tree.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:44:04 +0000

Charlotte was my great-great-aunt. (She was my grandfather’s aunt. Her maiden name was Geis and her actual first name was Carolyn. Charlotte was a nickname).

Sue, I wonder if we are relatives somehow! We have one of her Pluto dolls and my cousins at one time had a Mickey and Minnie.

Pluto’s photo can be seen on Charlotte’s Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Clark

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:24:19 +0000

Charlotte was my grandmother’s first cousin and sent us dolls when we were young. We have a Pinocchio almost identical except for some different color fabrics used for the clothing. Your doll must be one of hers.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:06:50 +0000

I have a very old, perhaps 65 yrs.+, Pinocchio doll. He has blue velveteen shorts, a red felt hat, moss colored felt shoes with red ties, blk yarn hair , red yarn mouth, and a satin shirt with suede gloves. He has red satin suspenders. This doll has a stuffed body and is 26 inches long. I would like some information on him.

By: jody

jody — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:59:37 +0000

I have a similar doll with red shorts and I have the history about how my family got the doll.

By: compass

compass — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:30:22 +0000

Having just finished reading Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by author Neal Gabler, I believe that the copyright issue was standard with Disney productions due to the fact that Walt had been taken advantage of in earlier deals with other producers in the early days. This is of course was a standard practice then. (1929) By the 1940′s it was in Walt’s best interest to secure copyright for everything they were doing. His brother Roy had a good head for business and was probably the one who enacted this practice in order to secure solvency. This way when a movie and its associated products were ready to be marketed, the copyright would already be in place. This is now standard practice today.

By: DisneyMan

DisneyMan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:33:41 +0000

Thanks so much Dawn! It’s very nice to get some follow-up on this wonderful Pinocchio doll!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:14:35 +0000

YES, I am certain that this is an one-of-a kind
CHARLOTTE CLARK PINOCCHIO?DOLL
Featuring Pinoccho with velveteen face with black floss mouth, applied pie-cut eyes (one eye restored) and distrincitive elongated nose. With applied ears and wire framed cloth “curly bangs” on a cloth body. Has wooden arms and legs having painted black ‘joints’. Dressed in yellow felt hat with red felt feather, light blue cordory shorts, black velvet vest, grey-blue bowtie, and brown felt shoes. All fabric matches the colors,
and textures of other CC dolls. And her signature embrodery brows and mouth are
CC undisputed trademark.
Stamped on under soles:
PINOCCHIO
trademark Walt Disney Production 1939.(CLARK)
height is 16.5 inches.
Gently faded patina but in SUPER MINT
condition.