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9 1/2" (24 cm.) - 12". Each is all wooden with bedpost-heads, simplistically painted facial features, yarn hair in various colors, block torso, clothespin arms and legs. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Pinn Family Dolls Created by Emily T. Myers, Mahtomodi, Minn, Hand Made U.S. Patent 1939 (wrist tag on one doll). Comments: Myers operated Wood Craft Studios at 493 Wabasha Street in Saint Paul, where she created the Pinn Family dolls. The successors to the Schoenhut firm marketed this imaginative set of dolls from bedposts and clothespins, circa 1939. Value Points: the set includes "Beauty Pinn", "Harry Pinn", and "Ty Pinn" with original labels, and five additional models, each in their original well-preserved costumes (except sailor boy costume which is stained). The black-complexioned teenager is especially rare.