Mattel Black Baby Doll, Living Baby Tender Love
I stumbled beyond my dearest childhood dolls while preparing for a move, and I've been unable to part with them.
Meet the dolls from my childhood, and see if you endemic any of these dolls yourself. (My Barbie went on many adventures and is not nearly as bully and clean as the one in this photograph, FYI.)
RomitaGirl67, CC-BY ii.0, from flickr
My Babyhood Dolls
A few years agone, while packing to move, I stumbled across my babyhood dolls. Memories of "baby doll contests" flooded my heed. I had really won a few ribbons. However, to await at them now, i would never believe it. Battered by years of a little girl's honey, they have missing hair, broken limb joints, stained article of clothing, or no clothing at all. This is non because I was rough with them or didn't care near them. It was merely the opposite. I loved my dolls, and I played with them every day.
I feel "old" just knowing that they are now considered "vintage." I don't remember whatever of them are rare, and even if they are, I don't recollect they would reel in much money. Nonetheless, I experience as if I owe them some recognition for filling my growing-up years with such happy adventures and memories. And so, let me introduce you to my dolls of yesterday.
"Nancy"
1963 Horsman Dolls #BC116
"Nancy" was one of my very first dolls, and she's my all-fourth dimension favorite. I had no luck finding much information about her on the internet. Then, she was probably just an ordinary doll, not very pop and without a name. I did observe the "rare" black version of her on eBay with a starting bid of Us $9.99. She no longer has her original dress—I'm not even certain what it looked like.
My Memories
This doll was non ordinary to me—and I loved her. She was under the Christmas tree in 1965 when I was only 1 i/2 years former. I named her "Nancy," only, to this twenty-four hours, it is not known where I came upwards with that name. She was well played-with, but she held up pretty well. She's merely lucky she had painted-on hair (you'll understand why as you lot read further into my article).
I did crochet a dress for her when I was 8 years old. The wearing apparel she is wearing in the photograph is actually a dress that my daughter wore as an infant. I only couldn't photograph her in that pink and imperial crocheted apparel.
When packing to move, I too recollect thinking most getting rid of the doll cradle. I'm sure glad I didn't. When I think of my childhood dolls, Nancy pops into my heed showtime. OK—she's a keeper!
This is "Annie," another Horsman doll.
Photograph by Mel-Kav
"Annie"
1960s Horsman Doll #87201-2480-NEW 17 Center
I don't recollect exactly when I got "Annie," but she was also one of my very first dolls. I have had no luck finding this doll on my cyberspace searches. Very few searches come with her markings, but none of the dolls look like my "Annie." Co-ordinate to the few articles I found, I believe she is a "Snuggle Softee Baby Doll" from the 1960s. She has a soft cloth torso. I call up she would say "mommy" when you squeezed her belly.
She does not have her original clothes, except for her undershorts. The dress she is wearing in this photo is likewise a dress that my girl wore as an baby.
My Memories
When I was searching for Annie online, I have to admit that I might not have recognized her if the photos showed her with hair. Poor affair—she was unfortunate to have visited a dreadful barber. (Yep, that would be me. Luckily, I never became a hair stylist—it just wasn't my thing.)
Real Live Lucy.
Photograph by Mel-Kav
Existent Live Lucy
1965 Ideal Toy #FL20-E-H33
When she was new, Lucy had a pretty little white clothes that was trimmed in pinkish, and there was a big blue felt domestic dog on the front end of her apparel. I remember when the felt domestic dog started to peel off her dress. It actually sort of disintegrated. Anyhow, the dress didn't last much longer. Lucy may have been my only doll to actually have an extra set of clothes: the pants and top that she is wearing in the photo (definitely a style out of the 1960s).
She is all vinyl, definitely not a cuddly doll, just I did dear her so. Her head likewise bobbles, although I do not remember the significance or the purpose of this feature.
"Real Live Lucy" was a more than popular doll than Nancy or Annie. I institute Lucy on many internet searches—and for sale on eBay, Etsy, and other online shops. I saw that she sold for Us $34.fifty and college, with the original dress. She was also on eBay in her original dress and box, with the plastic yet wrapped around her hair. She was posted for a price of Usa $499.00.
My Memories
Lucy was a Christmas gift—probably when I was ii.five or iii.five years old. I recall opening the box. She was and then beautiful. As you can tell, she later on had the aforementioned hairdresser that Annie did.
There's something else I must tell yous about Lucy. She underwent an identity crunch and eventually changed her name from Lucy to Luke. Yes—my other dolls needed a large brother, then she became my boy doll.
Thumbelina is still wearing her original apparel.
Photo by Mel-Kav
Thumbelina
1968 Platonic Toy Corp #BTT9-N-124
Poor little Thumbelina—that barber got a hold of her also. She has a pull cord on her back. After pulling information technology and letting go, she squirms—well, she used to. Besides, she is nevertheless wearing her original clothes (although I don't believe she had any other outfits).
I was able to detect her on the internet. She is listed as "Vintage Sister Thumbelina Doll." I saw her on eBay at a starting bid of United states of america $22.23. I also saw her listed for US $39.41 and $41.72. Withal, those dolls were fortunate plenty to notwithstanding accept their original hair.
My Memories
I recall I got Thumbelina for my 5th birthday. I sure did love this little doll. I let her go on her name and called her "Belina" for brusque. I wish I would accept never cut her pilus. What was I thinking?!
Velvet'due south hair can change from long to short (without visiting that notorious barber).
Photograph past Mel-Kav
Velvet
1969 Platonic Toy #GH-15-H-357
There were 2 versions of this doll: Velvet was the blonde, and Chrissy had the ruddy hair. Both Velvet and Chrissy's hair length could be altered. To arrive long, only press the push button on her belly and pull the hair out of her head. To make it short once more, just turn the knob on her dorsum, and her hair would slowly recede dorsum into her head.
Velvet, in her photo hither, is wearing her original dress. Poor matter—similar the rest of my dolls, she never had any actress wear, either. I did notice Velvet (and Chrissy) dolls on eBay listed at a starting bid of US $xix.99. She was also listed for $24.99 and $29.99.
My Memories
I'thousand not sure if I got Velvet for Christmas or for my birthday. I think I was in the second class when I got her (1971 or '72). My friend (Robin) and I had just heard about this doll. Both of us wanted both Velvet and Chrissy. I call up my mother saying that I didn't need ii dolls, and then I needed to decide which one I wanted the most. Robin's mother had said the same thing. I don't remember how we decided who got which doll, but I got Velvet, and she got Chrissy.
Let me merely say that Velvet was very lucky that her pilus could be easily changed from long to curt—that fashion, she did not have to visit that awful barber.
Living Baby Tender Beloved, whom I named "Angel."
Photo past Mel-Kav
Living Baby Tender Love
1970 Mattel Inc #140
Living Baby Tender Love is all soft-touch trunk. She has jointed limbs, then she is extremely flexible. She no longer has her original clothes. (I really don't know what happened to all of their dresses.) She was ane of the very offset dolls where yous could actually give her existent water in her bottle, and and so she would wet.
I did find her on Google searches; she was evidently pop. Mattel has an entire line of Living Baby Tender Honey dolls. My doll, #140, is the only one with the jointed limbs. A few years afterward my wetting doll, Mattel released models that talked, kissed, and hugged. Then, in 1973, Hasbro had to go 1 step further than Mattel, and they released Infant Alive—she could drink and eat and go potty (#1 and #ii). I never did get to see i of these dolls in action.
The 1970 Living Infant Tender Dearest #140 currently sells anywhere from Usa $54.99 to $125.00 on eBay and other sites.
My Memories
Ohhh, it was very difficult convincing my parents to go this doll for me. But I finally got her when I was around 8 years old. My friend Robin was really jealous. I named her "Angel," and I really loved this doll. I played with her so much that her left leg joint somewhen broke. I patched her up with cord and Scotch record. Well, that didn't agree for too long. My dad also tried fixing her leg by wiring it together, and that held up a little longer. Notwithstanding today, her leg easily falls off.
Affections does ain i of my handmade crocheted outfits (pink and red). Only, I merely couldn't photograph her in that—so, she is also wearing a dress that belonged to my daughter. Oh—by the way, I had given up my pilus styling business, so Angel didn't have to suffer the humiliation.
Lazy Dazy.
Photo by Mel-Kav
Lazy Dazy
1971 Ideal Toy #LB-12-307
Lazy Dazy was—well, how practise I say it? She was only lazy. She just couldn't sit down up and stay awake. Her body is separated into two sections. The lower half is a hard, cup-similar piece that holds sand. It is slightly angled on the lesser. The upper function is basically soft, hollow, and floppy.
You plow Dazy upside-downwards and gently pat her lesser until all the sand fills up the hollow cavity. And so merely sit her upright and watch. As the sand slowly empties back into the bottom part of her trunk, she leans to the side and eventually lies down on her side and closes her eyes. (Information technology appears that my Lazy Dazy also has a lazy eye.)
I found a few of these dolls on eBay, listed around an average of Us $15.30.
My Memories
I got Lazy Dazy when I was around 7 or 8 years old. It appears that Dazy may have gotten a trim earlier I quit the barber business.
When I outgrew my babe dolls, they were replaced with Barbies and other activity figure dolls.
Photo past Mel-Kav
Barbie and Friends
I call up my get-go Barbie—well, actually, she was the first and only Barbie I owned. I eventually got a Ken doll and a Skipper doll, every bit you can see in the photo higher up, so and so my collection was complete. I nonetheless marvel at the number of Barbie dolls that girls today own.
I e'er thought my Barbie family was rich. They owned a dressing case, a few extra outfits, a camper and a Puddle! I have looked on eBay at the campers—at that place are a few in decent status, but about of them are well played-with like mine. They have been posted anywhere from United states of america $48.00 to $98.00.
My Memories
That camper has been through a lot. I was the first of my friends to ain the camper; eventually, one or ii of my other friends also got a camper. We would gather outside and pack all of our Barbies in the campers and drive them through dirt, grass, and up and down hills. Sometimes, our brothers would bring together us with their Yard.I. Joe dolls. That e'er ended in them wanting to start a fight between Thousand.I. Joe and Ken.
Yep—nosotros definitely played with our toys. We never idea once almost keeping them safe in a box somewhere so we could brand a profit off of them one day by selling them on eBay, etc.
I really still have the box for Barbie's pool.
Photo by Mel-Kav
Barbie's Pool
And here is Barbie'south 1973 Puddle Set. And yes, I even so have the box. I've seen the Barbie Pool sell anywhere from Usa $xv.00 to $35.00.
My Memories
I was the merely ane of my friends to own the puddle. My friends and I had then much fun having "cookouts" and swimming parties. That was until the boys would crash our party with their K.I. Joes.
Between my friends and I, nosotros owned the pool, camper, car, kitchen set, the cardboard dream house, and the plane (which was really like a carrying case that opened up into half a plane). I am sure I am forgetting a few things, merely we thought we had information technology all.
Dawn dolls past Topper.
Photo by Mel-Kav
Dawn Dolls
Dawn dolls were small half-dozen.v-inch plastic dolls produced by Topper between 1970 and 1973. Apparently, Dawn doll sales surpassed Barbie sales for a brief period of time. Nevertheless, these cute little dolls were discontinued when Topper went out of business in 1973. Above are the three that I own.
Dawn dolls and accessories tin be establish on eBay in a large range of prices (from The states $.99 to $135.00). I simply had to laugh when I was looking at what eBay had to offer: Someone was selling 12 pairs of Dawn doll underwear for $5.50. That is simply a little likewise weird for me!
My Memories
I pretended that my Dawn dolls were Barbie'south children. I nonetheless have the plastic stands to keep them upright. My fiddling dolls had several dissimilar outfits and accessories, little hangers, the model busts to continue their dress on, etc.
Josie Due west was role of the Johnny W series, which was designed to compete with G.I. Joe.
Josie Due west
From the Johnny West Series
In 1965, Marx Toys came out with a line of action figures called the "Johnny West Series" in an endeavour to compete with Hasbro'due south G.I. Joe series. Josie Westward was introduced in 1967, although I did not ain 1 until the early on 1970s. She was the daughter of Johnny Westward.
My Memories
Josie quickly became friends with my Barbie family, even though she was quite different. My brothers had Johnny W, Thunderbolt (Johnny's horse), and Chief Cherokee, amongst other accessories. Hasbro eventually expanded their line with "The Best of the W" collection. My brothers collected these. They had Fort Apache. Of course, I also enjoyed playing with the fort and the new activeness figures.
These Dolls Are Full of Memories
So—what do yous call up of my collection? I know they are old and trounce-up, but I don't know if I will ever office with them. They concur and then many memories of an innocent and carefree childhood from so long ago.
In the 1960s and 1970s, kids didn't take a whole lot. My friends and I only had a few dolls each, and we played and explored with our imaginations daily. We were mothers, doctors/nurses, teachers, and barbers to our dolls. When we put all of our dolls together, we had a nicely sized classroom. And when we cut their hair, nosotros didn't take the proper scissors.
As I grew out of my carefree days of youth, I could not bring myself to go rid of my dearest dolls. I packed them away, and they remained hidden in a box and tucked into a dark corner of the cranium. I remember moving from my parents' home into my ain and thinking how ugly a few of these dolls were; yet, I was notwithstanding unable to role with them. So they were transferred to a dissimilar corner in a different attic until I stumbled across them again and decided to share.
Tell Me Nigh Your Dolls!
I would love to hear about your favorite dolls, if you owned any of the aforementioned dolls I did, if y'all still have your dolls, or if you just desire to say hello!
What Nearly You?
- American Character Dolls 1919-1968
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Heather on July thirty, 2020:
I take a Crissy doll, Mrs. Beasley, Babe Tender Beloved, Betsy Wetsy, Baby'due south First step and Giggles! I loved all my dolls. I had a Communicative Cathy but she went missing although I have her original outfits! I never got into Barbies.
Brenda on January 18, 2020:
I wish I had kept my dolls simply my Mama would throw abroad my dolls and other toys.
Karen on September sixteen, 2019:
I had a Suzie Snoozy doll in the 60s. She was so ugly, simply I loved her. She had a whited nightgown with a bonnet with a petty turf of pink pilus on her forehead. I practise not know whatever happened to her. Do you think someone might have one for sale? Just Sentimental..
Lisa on September 15, 2019:
I have your same "Annie" doll, same id numbers and all. Mine yet has her original greenish dress and until my granddaughters started playing with her she still had her hair up in the original greenish bow she came with. Sadly now non much hair left. "Cynthia " is one of my granddaughter's favorites, not sure why. Mine though has a windup knob in the dorsum which moves her caput around. I believe her name had something to practice with Winkin/Blinkin/Nod? I, like you , have not been able to find out whatever other info. So glad to come across another 1 around.
ejturner68@gmail.com on June 01, 2019:
How lovely to see someone else who nonetheless has their dolls. I'm 51 and kept a few of mine from the early 70s. They are at present loved past my grandchildren. Notwithstanding call them by their sometime names that I named them every bit a child. We accept Katherine, Vanessa, Georgina and Rosie. Happy memories.
Gwen on May 09, 2019:
My sis and i were given Cinderella doll around 1962-63 that were dressed in pink gowns with a lacy overlay. She had removable "glass slippers and came with her little railroad vehicle that held her necklace and earrings. Do you know anything about this doll of how I can find info well-nigh it?
Carmen Perez on April 20, 2019:
Hi, this is a cracking site, I wonder if I could mail my doll but to encounter what yr it was created?
Mary John Da Silva on February 07, 2019:
My annotate is in regards to Mattel'due south Living Baby Tenderlove, I have that doll from 1970 all original and take acquired 4 or five more than since, I love that particular doll. I'm an adult gorging doll collector with an extensive and varied doll collection of a lifetime, don't rightly know how many dolls I own. I collect what I love, Playpals, Kissy's, Baby Tenderlove's, Fayzah Spanos, Lee Middletons, Masterpiece dolls and many other creative person dolls. Fifty-fifty having so many it'due south always such a pleasure and a joy to get some other one and fun to observe thru the venue of the Internet how popular doll collecting is. It'south got to exist the funnest hobby in the whole world!
About the legs/artillery falling off, yes those joints are delicate, vulnerable and suscceptible to breakage. My doll leg also broke, it's a very unique articulation connection on the leg it's a blazon of cone that connects to what looks like a loving cup a trivial tight and snaps in to lock simply with utilise changing the doll etc information technology breaks, I tried to detect a doll doctor/hospital to ready it, did send it to someone cantankerous land who sent it back unable to fix it. So I got creative, don't laugh only I found a solution that worked. I also sew for my dolls, and one solar day while sewing I got an idea, using a rubber thimble glued it to the hip joint connectedness of the doll, so with an exacto pocketknife made a 10 on top, center of thimble when glue was totally dry snapped the leg cone into the snug Ten I made and voila, she's notwithstanding holding, I'll tell you lot I'thou careful with those dolls because I know this simply as I said I honey this doll and she got a new charter on life!
just1moredoll on September 12, 2018:
Your dolls bring dorsum a few babyhood memories. I am an developed collector now, and take about 3,000 dolls. My first love was vintage Barbie which gravitated to Kiddles and Dawn. Then there were the leggy Jill dolls. Now fifty take gotten deeply into antique bisque both French and German along with China head dolls, simply l still have my modernistic vintage dolls besides. Once you go the love for dolls it'south like potato fries, you can't accept but one.
Anne on Baronial 27, 2018:
Howdy, what a great page! I still accept a load of my old dolls from the 1960s/1970s...sindy, barbie, ken, pippa dolls, havoc, daisy and some of the charlies angels dolls. I would similar to restore them properly only am struggling to detect a good website or book to suggest.
mel-kav (author) on July 05, 2018:
In response to Susie - I call back the doll you are asking about might be the "1960 Suzie the Snoozie doll, 22 inch". Refer to the above link and look at the section for "1960 American Character Whimsies dolls". Is that your doll? I bet it was bought for you because her name is also Suzie (only spelled with a "z").
Debi on June xix, 2018:
I Dearest Your Collection. I had lots of dolls I had an Evenflo Doll and the bottles fit perfectly in her rima oris. I had my dolls for years. I wanted to salve them for my Girl(s). Simply my Mom gave them to my Niece who is 11 years younger than me. She destroyed them. She pulled out Communicative Baby's String, ripped all of the arms, legs, and heads off of Barbie, Midge, Skipper, Tuttie, Tammy, and Betsy McCall. They were all in excellent conditioner. I had two Doll Cases for them as well. Just do sad. I have three Girls and they would have Loved them.
susie on May 28, 2018:
Can anyone retrieve the name of a doll from the mid 1960s that had a cloth trunk, came with a nightgown and bonnet, had a plastic head with a goofy smiling, asleep and a tuft of hair? She was so ugly she was cute
Bree on March twenty, 2018:
I have a large collection from 1960 to 2005 ! Tin can anyone tell me what I should wait for making them Collectables ? Ty
Joanne on September 08, 2015:
I had a Living Baby Tender Love that "Santa" brought the Christmas when I was iv (I recall). She was one of my favorites and I kept her until she started falling apart. I just bid on one on ebay...I cannot wait to put my baby clothes (that my Dad bought for me 47 yrs ago) on her. AND yeah I nevertheless play with dolls!!!
nikahexplorer on April 18, 2014:
Your lens remind me my babyhood.
ChocolateLily on March 17, 2014:
I have a few of my dolls and blimp animals. They are in remarkably expert shape for the nigh part. Your memories were smashing!
tysam lm on March 10, 2014:
Prissy lens! I have some of my old baby dolls in a box above the garage... take carted them from house to house over many years.. maybe information technology'due south about time I open it upwards once more and bring back the memories! :)
Congrats on your LOTD
Merry Citarella from Oregon's Southern Coast on March 08, 2014:
What a wonderful collection! CONGRATS on LotD!!!
PaigSr from State of Confusion on March 08, 2014:
1 prissy LotD. Two for me it was a stuffed dog. And no I can't find it Three if you count my Lego sets I still accept those.
SteveKaye on March 07, 2014:
I had a teddy bear. Does that count?
Fay Favored from Us on March 07, 2014:
My sister would like seeing these. She has and so many dolls. What a great collection. It'south prissy to run across that you lot have been able to keep them. Way to go on LotD.
happynutritionist on March 07, 2014:
It is amazing that yous still accept all of these and I dear your daughters opinion of the page...lol
Wednesday-Elf from Savannah, Georgia on March 07, 2014:
Wow -- congrats on LotD. Well washed, as is this lens! I never really got into Barbie dolls (although my daughter had a couple), just I remember some of my baby dolls. Somewhere along the line (age 9 or 10 perchance) I got very interested in twins and thought I'd similar to have twins when I grew up to be a mommy. Anyway, one Christmas I got twin boy and girl dolls that were small - mayhap 12" tall. The following twelvemonth I got twin boy/girl dolls that were the size of newborn babies and I LOVED those. I kept them for years. Then I grew upwards, left for college, met my hubby and married and during those years my folks sold their home and moved to a mobile home and got rid of ALL the stuff in their attic, including those dolls. I wish I'd taken them with me when I first left home because I concluded up with a daughter and it would have been fun to pass them on to her. BTW, I didn't end upwards with twins for children -- had boy - girl - boy instead - all several years apart. LOL.
Ibidii on March 07, 2014:
Congratulations on LOTD mel-kav! I have been to this folio before, I did not see I left a message. I accept 2 dolls from the 1950s that I got when I was vi and viii. I lost all the Barbies some time in one of my moves. My iii daughters and lots of kids I babysat played with all the dolls we had. I will do a story/lens on information technology this year. Cracking lens!
Donna Cook on March 07, 2014:
When I was a child in the 50'southward, life size dolls were very pop. But dear mine. Great lens!
Ruthi on March 07, 2014:
Your daughter is too funny and I think just to really creep her out that you ought to fill up that cradle with your baby dolls and give information technology a prominent place in the family living area. I didn't play with dolls other than a Raggedy Ann and Andy, and oh, how I wish I still had that pair! I was a tomboy and much preferred the great outdoor games.
Barbara Tremblay Cipak from Toronto, Canada on March 07, 2014:
oh my goodness, this page is a step back into my childhood! my 2 favorite dolls (other than Barbie) were Tubsy & Shirley - Tubsy, splashing in the bathtub and Shirley was a walking doll, (how's that for high tech, lol) - Congrats on Lens of the Twenty-four hour period!
Nancy Carol Brown Hardin from Las Vegas, NV on March 07, 2014:
Congratulations on LOTD. I never kept whatsoever of my dolls, but I particularly remember i because it was such a wonderful Christmas surprise; a Cinderella doll that was as tall as I was. Beautiful lens.
bjfoxglove on March 07, 2014:
This is a really cool lens!!!
Carol Houle from Montreal on March 07, 2014:
Great lens. I had four dolls from my childhood, even so take 3 of them. Played with the neighbor's barbies. I started a minor drove of porcelain dolls. Merely one left at present.
Delia on March 07, 2014:
Congratulations on LOTD! I was here in December. and am happy to run into this lens was nominated...nicely done!
Faye Rutledge from Agree VA on March 07, 2014:
I love dolls and still take ane of my Mom'south dolls (mom is now 92, so the doll is virtually that erstwhile!) and my Tiny Tears doll from the fifty's. Plus, I have 1 of my daughter's and granddaughter's dolls...then 4 generations of dolls. Thank you for sharing your doll collection. Congratulations on LotD! :)
angelatvs on March 07, 2014:
Great lens! I only saved a few of my favorites, at present I wish I had saved them all!
EveStanley LM on March 07, 2014:
Great lens!It'southward a pity I lost my dolls a year or two ago. Give thanks you for bringing dorsum memories!
SMW1962 LM on March 07, 2014:
This brings back memories! I played with many of these dolls as a kid.
katiecolette on March 07, 2014:
Wow, you have quite a collection. I even so think my kickoff doll, but I think my parents gave all of my dolls away to their friends' younger kids :)
Susan Deppner from Arkansas USA on March 07, 2014:
Back to read through this precious lens again and congratulate you on your Lens of the Twenty-four hours honors today!
GrammieOlivia on March 07, 2014:
My MIL had one heck of a doll drove and until she started that hobby, I was not interested in them. Now I have a few of her dolls and I volition give them to my Granddaughters, they all the same are non my favorite plaything, I was more into the cars and easily on dirty, messy and downright boy's toys. I happen to take been a barber merely similar you to my dolls!
Stephen J Parkin from Pine Grove, Nova Scotia, Canada on March 07, 2014:
I agree with your girl this was a pretty scary lens. Even so I do remember most of these dolls from my growing up years. I never had GI Joe dolls or anything like that train sets and race cars were more my scene! Welld one on the LOTD!
Cynthia Sylvestermouse from United States on March 07, 2014:
What a wonderful collection and how awesome that you lot held on to your babies, even if some of them were "ugly" to your adult eyes. Congratulations on lotd!
Dawn from Maryland, U.s.a. on March 07, 2014:
Congratulations Eileen for LotD!!!!! Well deserved!
Renaissance Woman from Colorado on March 07, 2014:
Congrats on Lens of the Day! And the dolls are cheering!
AnuradhaM on March 06, 2014:
Aww.. a number of cute dolls there. I loved your Velvet the most. Serenity an interesting lens. Loved it.
Vickie Moses on March 06, 2014:
I love your lens! I still take my very commencement doll. I was merely four years old when Santa gave her to me for Christmas. She is a very old doll.
Cheryl Fay Mikesell from Mondovi, WI on March 06, 2014:
Vintage dolls are crawly! I have my Barbie and some erstwhile vintage clothes there were fabricated for hither. Oh My I do recollect the Barbie Van I use to have. I adored it. GREAT Lens!
Robin S from USA on March 06, 2014:
Super lens!
Renaissance Woman from Colorado on March 06, 2014:
This was so much fun. I wish I knew what happened to my dolls. I had them stored at my mother's house. I think my sister took off with them. I know they would accept been worth quite a bit, as they were in pristine condition with all original clothing. I love a doll lens that can make yous express joy out loud more than once. That'due south quite a feat. :-) *My sis's dolls must accept had the same hairdresser.
Amine from Doha, Qatar on February fourteen, 2014:
yous take very overnice drove, i used to play with barbie dolls with my sis, and dress them up, hey barbie wanna go for a ride? hahahha funny moments with the eye 90s song barbie girl past aqua. well done mel
Renee Dixon from Kentucky on January 26, 2014:
Great collection! I still have a few of mine every bit well :) I loved your Thumbelina doll especially!
Takkhis on January 15, 2014:
These vintage dolls are very pretty to await at :)
Delia on December 07, 2013:
Love your drove! My own favorite doll was a German language Schildkrot (turtle) porcelain with hair and another one that didn't have real pilus. Both were accidentally given to the Goodwill with all my babyhood books.
chrisilouwho on Dec 06, 2013:
Actually interesting, kind of wishing I had kept a few of my own now.
candace-peters-coiffure on November 28, 2013:
I loved it! I nonetheless have my first doll, Carlene, and she had a cloth face and so she was filthy and beat up looking. My sister bought me another ane on ebay a few years ago that I guess had never been as well loved :)
Dawn from Maryland, USA on November 24, 2013:
I tin can't stop coming back... this is great stuff. :)
anonymous on Nov 23, 2013:
Annie'southward haircut is just fine. As a thing of fact, it's timeless. I mean, accept you seen some of the haircuts today, on humans? (haha)
I love Lucy's (Luke's) little outfit - it'south a classic.
I didn't own Thumbelina, Velvet, Little Infant Tender Love or Lazy Dazy, but I remember watching the commercials on Saturday mornings. (Didn't you just dearest those Saturday-forenoon commercials?
You know, I'm a big fan of Antiques Roadshow on PBS, and the value of some of these vintage dolls and doll article of furniture is listen boggling. So don't always get rid of your doll cradle because information technology might exist worth more than you think.
Oh I really enjoyed reading this, thanks for sharing.
Tasha North on November 21, 2013:
I as well had ane of those, huge ane with frilly crimson dress,my grandmother use to proceed information technology for me
invest90 on Nov 20, 2013:
I still accept my first doll. I was pumpkin head (existent name) and it is still stilling on my dining room shelf along with my grandmothers doll and wardrobe.
Susan Deppner from Arkansas Us on November 20, 2013:
I beloved your collection! I wish I had been encouraged to keep my dolls, though I honestly don't remember them. I was more of a book person fifty-fifty every bit a young child.
Dawn from Maryland, USA on November 19, 2013:
I came dorsum to read the parts i had to skim this morning... ahaha. Love this!
Dawn from Maryland, United states of america on November xix, 2013:
OMG...I laughed so hard I'm sure the neighbors heard... "Information technology appears that Dazy may take gotten a trim before I quit the barber business." Fun lens!
Source: https://hobbylark.com/collecting/my-vintage-doll-collection-1960s-and-1970s
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