Baby Face Doll 411

The Identification page, Baby Face By the Numbers has been revised and expanded. It now has pictures and descriptions of all the dolls, their outfits and heart charms.

This new addition was originally created by Sue Davis in 1999 and appeared on her website, Sue’s Baby Face Guide. Sue was the very first person to compile all that information and it took months and months of hard work for her to do it. In those days, we had not met Mel yet and had no idea even about how many different Baby Face dolls were made! It took more than a year just to find that out. None of us, of course, had all the dolls and of what we had, many of them were not MIB when we got them, so had parts of their outfits missing. Sue had to get information from all the collectors at the AOL Baby Face group, which was the very first Baby Face group on the internet. Once she had all the outfits catalogued, then, she had to track down all the heart charms. This took months in itself because she also wanted to record the words on the envelopes. You can’t imagine how difficult a task it was for her to find every last one. A lot of the dolls if they had charms at all, would just have them tied to their wrists or ankles, no envelope. It was a work of love for Sue and she did a fabulous job.

Sue’s Baby Face Guide was one of the earliest Baby Face sites on the internet. My site was first and then came Sue and Cyndy with their own Baby Face sites. I am still here and so is Cyndy, but unfortunately Sue’s site no longer exists. Cyndy and I have tried to preserve some of Sue’s wonderful content that she had on her site by adding some of it to our Baby Face sites. So I am pleased to be able to offer Sue’s original Baby Face Identification to you. I added the part about Denny. All the rest was done by Sue.

The second new page is the newly revised Rarity Ranking List, which I invented a decade ago, to help collectors to figure out the value of the dolls. Prices of Baby Face dolls back then, as now, would go up and down frequently, which made making a price guide impossible to do with any accuracy. But, all Baby Face dolls were not created equal. The first year dolls are pretty easy to find and inexpensive. Second year dolls are less plentiful and so cost a little more and then there are a few Baby Face that are really super hard to find. So I came up with the idea to rank the dolls in order availability and called it the Rarity Ranking List. The dolls that are the hardest to find, the rarest ones, are at the top of the list and the common ones like Cynthia and Susie are at the bottom.

Periodically I revise the list and adjust the rankings to keep it up to date with the current market availability. This latest version of the list has Denny’s first appearance on the list, based on the latest information that we have confirmed that he was sold as Sacha in France and of course he occupies the spot at the very top. Several other dolls had to be moved up or down on the list to reflect their current appearances in the marketplace mostly using eBay as a gauge. The members of the Baby Face Workshop helped me do this latest revision and I thank them so much for their contribution. I could not have done it without them.