Many of innovations complete the creation of this new Baby : the head is mobile on the trunk and either on the ruffle, the fixed eyes are in enamel with colored rays, the whole maintained by a metallic hook, the one that we know.
This famous and very renowned " Unbreakable Baby " was however endowed with a head in particularly vulnerable biscuit. Emile Jumeau was probably conscious of it, the unbreakable word finding its point of break there. Is it the reason for which the factory, keeping the same moulds and the same processes, tempted some essays of papier machés heads ? The one that describes our small notebook must be endowed with one of this one. It is indeed subjected without damage, in the childish brutality. A body, however solid isn't, but without head had (and still has) really, a disastrous and sad effect for the child.
In brief, it seems that the results of these papier maché heads were not probably convinsing and the manufacturing continued with magnificent but fragile, pressing heads of biscuit.....
This baby was thus and was practically never unbreakable in spite of the assertions of the House Juemau who sacrificed the solidity of the doll to the beauty of an attractive little face which always amazes us ......
Hélène BUGAT-PUJOL
To satisfy your curiosity here is of wide extracts of this small notebook
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