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Beehler Arts, Fortune Toys
Inc., Ontario Plastics and the Virga Doll Company all seem to
have been connected, as well as Kimport dolls which used the same address
as Beehler. They all produced similar Ginny type 7 1/2 - 9"
tall, hard plastic walking dolls in the 1950's. Many of these
dolls are unmarked and therefore, if out of box can be difficult
to identify.
Some competitors for these
small hard plastic type dolls are;
PMA -
Plastic Molded Arts, Doll Bodies,
Grant Plastics, Kimport Dolls, Niresk Industries and Stashin Dolls all
on
the Hard Plastics doll page. See also the Hard
Plastic Marks page.
Here are dolls by; Beehler
Arts, Fortune Toys,
Ontario Plastics, Virga Doll Co we have found |
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1950's Princess SummerFall WinterSpring (Indian Princess), 14
1/2 or 18" tall, #1200, all hard plastic, fully jointed body (this is
not the puppet version), blue
sleep eyes, very distinctive facial paint & curved
eyebrows with a rosebud closed mouth. Dressed in her
original Princess outfit with crown & charm
bracelet. She was a character played by actress Judy
Tyler in the Howdy Doody
TV show from the 1950's, who sadly died in an auto accident in
1957. There were
also smaller version dolls; one was a dress-me type doll 8" tall &
hand puppet versions. The doll
shown here is VHTF. She was made
by the Beehler Arts Co.
Special thanks to Irishmahony
for finding the information about this doll
and DrBell21 who
shared her photos! She's a wowser!
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1950's Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring, 14 1/5" |
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ca. 1950's Pam, 8" tall,
hard plastic jointed body, sleep eyes, wig, closed mouth or Pam Ballerina,
same as Pam but has pointed feet for ballerina toe shoes, by The Hart
Throb Doll and Fortune
Doll Co.
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1950's
Pam Ballerina, 8" |
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ca. 1950's Ninette and Jeanette,
8" tall, same as the Pam doll with different packaging, by Fortune Doll
Co. |
1950's
Jeanette 8" |
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Lollipop blue hair |
ca. 1950's
Lollipop dolls,
8" tall, all hard plastic jointed body, sleep eyes,
wigged sometimes with unusual
hair colors; aqua blue, maize yellow, mint green, orchid lavender,
peach, pink and silver by Virga Doll
Company, Beehler Arts LTD, NYC. |
Lollipop pink hair |
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Lollipop yellow hair
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ca. 1950's Lucy, Play Mates,
8-9" tall, Penny
(10 1/2" tall), Storybook Characters, hard plastic jointed bodies,
sleep eyes, closed mouth, straight
legs, some are walkers by Virga Doll Co., Beehler Arts LTD, NYC.
The 9" tall Lucy,
hip pin walker doll was used as an advertising doll by Colgate
Palmolive for Fab detergent in 1957. The doll without
the hip pin walker was the 1957 Fab Picture Doll.
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1950's Lucy, Play Mates,
8-9" |
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1950's Toni Playmate, 8" tall, Storybook Characters, hard plastic jointed bodies,
sleep eyes, closed mouth, straight
legs, some are walkers by Virga Doll Co. Beehler Arts LTD, NYC.
The 1954 Toni 8"
tall has sleep green eyes, real lashes, and a saran blonde wig
in braids, is shown here wearing the outfit #505 Sunday Best,
an organdy dress trimmed with lace and braided embroidery,
matching bonnet and black suede slip on shoes.
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1954
Toni Playmate, 8" |
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 ca. 1950's Twinkle Ballerina,
8" tall,
(turns head when legs are moved, pointed toes),
Ginny look a like,
various colored wigs, sleep eyes, hard plastic jointed bodies, straight
legs, by Virga Doll Co., Beehler Arts LTD, NYC.
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1950's Twinkle Ballerina,
8" |
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1955 Paula Sue, 8" tall,
hard plastic, non-walking, sleep eyes with plastic upper lashes, no
painted lower lashes, wears a white dress with multi-colored ribbon
trim, marked: Ontario Plastic Inc., Rochester N.Y. |
1950's Paula Sue,
8" |
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1957
Kim 'teen, 8 1/2" tall, walker type, sleep eyes, molded
lashes, hi heel feet, jointed body, clothes are often sewn to doll, by
Kimport Doll Co, NYC. Same as the Miss Hi Teen doll by Virga
Dolls, NYC.
Note: The Kimport
company doll boxes, use the same
address as the Beehler Arts company.
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1957
Kim 'teen, 8 1/2" |
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1957 Coco
Schiaparelli Doll, 8" tall, clothing is marked "Schiaparelli",
Ginny look a like, there were several outfits by the Virga Doll
Company. |
1957 Coco,
8" |
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1960s
Pam, 10" tall, Ginger look a like, all vinyl, sleep eyes, rooted hair,
high heel feet, marked on head: E, by the Fortune Doll Company. |
1960s
Pam 10" |
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