REPLACEMENT MADAME ALEXANDER DIONNE QUINTUPLET TEETER TOTTER FOR COMPO DOLLS

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This Auction is for a Custom Made replacement Teeter Totter for the 6" to 7" Madame Alexander Dionne Quintuplet toddler or baby dolls Teeter Totter has been color matched and built just like the originals made back in the 1930's. Teeter totter is functional and even has little seat belts like the originals. THIS AUCTION IS FOR THE TEETER TOTTER ONLY, AND DOLLS ARE NOT INCLUDED. This is a beautiful way to display your set of Dionnes! Only sell to the 48 continuous United States. Good Luck, and enjoy! **************************************** The Dionne Quintuplets (born May 28, 1934) are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy . The sisters were born just outside Callander, Ontario , near the village of Corbeil . The Dionne girls were born two months premature . After four months with their family, they were made wards of the King for the next nine years under the Dionne Quintuplets' Guardianship Act, 1935 . The government and those around them began to profit by making them a significant tourist attraction in Ontario. The identical quintuplet sisters were (in order of birth): Yvonne Édouilda Marie Dionne — died June 23, 2001, age 67, of cancer Annette Lillianne Marie Dionne (Allard) — age 79 as of July 2013 Cécile Marie Émilda Dionne (Langlois) — age 79 as of July 2013 Émilie Marie Jeanne Dionne — died August 6, 1954, age 20, of accidental suffocation during an epileptic seizure , at her convent Marie Reine Alma Dionne (Houle) — died February 27, 1970, age 35, of an apparent blood clot of the brain, in Montreal Biography The Dionne family The family was headed by father Oliva-Edouard (27 Aug 1904 - 15 Nov 1979) and mother Elzire (Legros) Dionne (07 May 1909 – 22 Nov 1986), who married on September 15, 1926. They lived just outside of Corbeil, in a farmhouse in unregistered territory. Oliva, through his father, was a descendant of Zacharie Cloutier (via Louise Cloutier 1632–1699, Charlotte Mignault 1669–1747, and Antoine Dionne 1706–1807). The Dionnes were a farming family with five previous children, Ernest (1926–1995), Rose Marie (1928–1995), Thérèse (b. 1929), Daniel (1932–1995), and Pauline (b. 1933), who was only eleven months older than the quints. A sixth child, Léo (b. 1930), died of pneumonia shortly after birth. The Dionnes also had three sons after the quintuplets: Oliva Jr. (b. 1936), Victor (1938–2007), and Claude (b. 1946). Birth Elzire suspected she was carrying twins, but no one was aware that quintuplets were even possible. The quintuplets were born two months premature. In 1938, the doctors had a theory that was later proven correct when genetic tests showed that the girls were indeed identical and were created from one single egg cell. Elzire reported having had cramps in her third month and passing a strange object which may have been a sixth fetus. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe is credited with ensuring the successful live birth of the quintuplets. Originally, he diagnosed Elzire with a "fetal abnormality". He delivered the babies with the help of two midwives, Aunt Donalda and Madame Benoit Lebel, who were summoned by Oliva Dionne in the middle of the night. Émilie and Marie shared an embryonic sac (and were identical twins), Annette and Yvonne shared an embryonic sac, and it is believed that Cécile shared an embryonic sac with the miscarried sixth fetus. Each girl became emotionally the closest to whomever they shared a sac with; Cécile tended to be alone the most. All but Émilie were/are right-handed; all but Marie have/had a counter-clockwise whorl in their hair. The births were registered in nearby Corbeil . The babies' weights and measurements were not recorded. The quintuplets were immediately wrapped in cotton sheets and old napkins, and laid in the corner of the bed. Dr. Dafoe was certain that none of them could live. Shortly after the births were completed, Elzire went into shock and Dafoe thought that she w... read more

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