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RENWAL DOLL FURNITURE their children, especially doll houses. (Amazon, $20) by Charles Donovan,
Renwal: World’s Finest Toys
Hard plastic doll furniture replaced
Stimulated the imagination of young girls miniature wood furniture. Intricate Jr. gives a full history of the company
By Larry LeMasters details were along with an excellent, though out
possible on
dated, price guide. And while Renwal
LeMasters’ Antique News Service injection molded made many fine toys (such as the
Irving Lawner founded the Renwal decade of the doll furniture, Visible Man, Visible Woman, and
Company (Renwal is Lawner spelled ‘50s became the including the Visible V-8 Engine, Donovan’s book
backwards) in 1939 and began Golden Years for manufacturer’s focuses on Renwal doll furniture and
distributing house wares, such as doll furniture as name and its contributions to the 1940s and ‘50s
glass knives. Following World War plastic became country of toy markets.
II, Renwal began manufacturing “the material origin as well as In the late 1950s, Renwal sold its
inexpensive plastic toys, including of today,” delicate fabric doll furniture dies. Some of these
his famous line of 1/16th scale doll transforming the design on chairs molds ended up overseas where
furniture. Nearly all Baby Boomer manufacturing and clocks on companies produced cheaply made
girls played with of almost everything. Coupled with stoves. Plastic molding allowed doll plastic doll furniture that still carried
Renwal plastic doll plastic and the mass production of furniture to be produced in a wide the original Renwal name since the
furniture. toys was the economic variety of bright molds were not
The late 1940s boom in American during colors that stimulated retooled. Companies
and the entire the Eisenhower years, the imagination of continued making
allowing parents to young girls. Popular Renwal doll furniture
purchase more toys for doll furniture colors into the late 1960s.
of the 1950s included
Above- Renwal living room doll house medium blue, dark
furniture valued as a set for $52. Vintage, blue, pink, red, Renwal “Little Red School
House” set, circa 1947,
1950s, Renwal high chair, with decals, and
playpen set. This set was offered on eBay for cream, brown (used which is valued at $40.
$25. Renwal kitchen dollhouse stove, circa to represent “wood”), Renwal dollhouse pieces,
late 1940s, valued at $27. Authentic Renwal and yellow and black 1/16th scale, offered on
dollhouse armchair, in living room blue, circa as accents colors. eBay for $50.
1950s, sells on eBay between $15 and $20.
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