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Document 181799
CABBAGE PATCH KIDS: XAVIER ROBERTS. Philatelic Envelope signed:
"Xavier Roberts/86", 6½x3½. First Day Cover honoring Christmas,
15-cent stamp affixed, postmarked Holly, Michigan, October 18, 1978, FIRST DAY
OF ISSUE. The hottest toy of the 1983 holiday season was a chubby-cheeked
cloth doll said to have been born in a cabbage patch. The dolls were first
made in the mid-1970s by art student Xavier Roberts of Cleveland, Georgia.
He called them "little people", dressed them in baby clothes and gave each a
name complete with "birth certificates". They sold at craft shows for a $40
"adoption fee". Roberts organized The Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. Coleco
Industries made a deal to mass-produce the dolls with vinyl heads, licensed as
"Cabbage Patch Kids". Nearly three million were made for the 1983 holiday season
but it was not enough. Cabbage Patch Kids resurrected Coleco's ailing bottom
line. However, the doll craze faded by 1987 and Hasbro took over the line as
Coleco entered into bankruptcy. In 1994, Mattel took over the Cabbage Patch
license. Today, Original Appalachian Artworks still makes the soft-sculptured
doll which sells for between $200-$400. On verso, pencil notes in unknown hand
(no show through). Fine condition.
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