1972 Kenner Blythe Doll Brunette Amazing Contion LOOK!!

We came across this 1972 Kenner Blythe in our small consignment store and not fully realizing what we had in our hands. This is a Blythe doll that is in amazing condition, it has its original dress called Golden Goddess and the original panties to go along with it. The set is suppose to have the shoes with it but 2 out of 3 aint bad! Her hair dark brown with wispy bangs and a middle part and is still completely attached with no missing plugs , the only falling point is that is a little frizzy at the ends. Her make up is perfect with her green eye shadow and light pink lips. Her body is nearly perfect and her legs still pop and bend at her knees. The flaws on her body are very small, and are shown in the pictures, she has two very small pin pricks on her right leg and one on her left. She has small pink marking on her right thumb and one very small pink mark above her right pointer finger. Amazingly that is all the flaws she has!!

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This is what is printed on her back.

Blythe T M

KENNER PRODUCTS

CINCINNATI ,OHIO

C 1972 GENERAL MILLS

FUN GROUP .INC

PATENTS PENDING

MADE IN HONG KONG

Blythe was a novelty doll produced by Kenner in 1972, and distributed in Britain by Palitoy. She was just under twelve inches tall, with a slender teen body and an overlarge head. Her most amazing accomplishment was that she could change the position and color of her eyes, which was operated by a pull cord running from the back of the head.

Blythe's eyes were large and round, and they changed from green to pink to amber to blue each time the string was pulled, momentarily closing between each pull. The blue and green eyes were side-glance, amber and pink looked straight ahead

Her appearance was revolutionary for the time - in fact, she scared children which may well be why she was soon discontinued, though another reason could be that a child's frenzied pulling of the cord could cause it to break or the mechanism to jam.

A few years ago, a lady called Gina Goran wanted to try out a camera, and grabbed the first doll she could find to test out the lens. It so happened that this lady had accumulated a collection of Blythe dolls. When she saw how great Blythe was as a model, she decided to dress the doll in unusual outfits and to photograph her in various place-settings. The resulting photos were gathered into a small book - and the result is history. Within a few months, prices for Blythe dolls had escalated, and a doll you could once find for a couple of pounds at a boot sale was now like gold dust.