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Ideal Novelty and Toy
Company began in 1902-1982 and originally produced teddy bears, in
the 1930's they made Shirley Temple, Judy Garland and Deanna Durbin
dolls as well as supplied to other doll manufacturers. They were
first in their industry to make hard plastic dolls after World War
II. Their dolls are made of; wood, cloth, composition, hard
plastic (Patent #2252077), vinyl and magic skin and are considered to be very good
quality. Ideal Toy Co. was acquired by the CBS Toy Co.
in 1982 which later went out of business.
Here are some of the
dolls we have found made by Ideal in the 1970's:
Items
pictured here are for reference only, not for sale.
| 1969-1974
Crissy 18" tall,
the Crissy Family of grow hair dolls; Crissy, Kerry, Tressy,
Brandi 17 1/2" tall, Velvet, Cricket, Dina, Mia &
Tara 15" tall, Cinnamon 11 1/2" tall,
& Baby Crissy 24" tall. Some dolls came
in both a white or black version.
Crissy
is 18" tall, sleep eyes, long rooted hair that can grow even longer, it's a deep rusty
auburn (or black),
open mouth with
a wonderful smiling face, shown here in original outfit of a lacey party dress with ribbon tie and
flower hair accent with matching
shoes, came in several versions over the years and came as a
black Crissy. Photo courtesy of Tara Salvatore.
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1969-1974
Crissy, 18" |
| 1970
Kerry, 17 1/2" tall, friend of Crissy, and part of
the Crissy grow hair dolls.
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1970
Kerry, 17 1/2" |
| 1970-1971
Tressy, 18" tall, friend of Crissy part of the Crissy
family of grow hair dolls. Came in both a black & white
version.
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1970 Tressy, 18" |
 1970-1974
Velvet, 15" tall, violet eyes, the younger cousin
of Crissy in the Crissy family of grow hair dolls. Also Talk
Velvet, Movin Grovin Velvet, Beauty Braider Velvet & Velvet
with Swirly Daisys, (last three dolls also came in a black
versions).
Left, 1973 Beauty Braider Velvet
Black, still with violet eyes, also came in a white
version.
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1970 Velvet, 15" |
| 1971
Cricket, 15" tall, part of the Crissy family
of grow hair dolls, Velvet's friend.
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1971 Cricket, 15" |
| 1971
Mia, 15" tall, part of the Crissy family of grow hair
dolls, Velvet's friend.
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1971 Mia, 15" |
| 1971 Belly Button
doll,
all vinyl, baby type, about 9" tall, rooted hair, white or
black, dressed in a romper.
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1971 Belly Button,
9" |
| 1971-1972
Bizzie Lizzie, 17 1/2" tall, soft vinyl head with
blonde rooted hair, sleep eyes with real upper lashes &
painted lower lashes,
closed smiling pink mouth, hard plastic jointed body, wore a
pink dress & had a heart shaped plastic necklace with her
name, came
with ironing board, iron, feather duster, manual carpet
sweeaper
& her battery operated pack came in a pink plastic
toolbox. Marked on head: 1970 & on body 1971.
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1971
Bizzie Lizzie, 17 1/2" |
| 1971 Play'n Jane doll,
17' tall, doll plays games with you, rooted hair, sleep eyes, toddler
hard plastic body.
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1971
Play'N Jane, 17" |
| 1971-1972
Scribbles, 9", all cloth doll with red yarn hair yarn
stitched facial features, was a type of puppet that you put
your fingers in the dolls sleeves and a child could write on
the included chalk board.
Photo courtesy
of Mike - Mhalb. |
1971-1972
Scribbles, 9" |
| 1972-1974
Cinnamon, 11 1/2" tall, part of the Crissy family of
grow hair dolls. Velvet's little sister, came in a black or
white version, has rooted auburn grow hair, blue painted eyelashes, orange and white polka dot two piece playsuit
and orange t-strap shoes. |
 
1972-1974
Cinnamon, 11 1/2" |
| 1972-1973
Brandi, 17 1/2" tall, part of the Crissy family of
grow hair dolls, Crissy's friend. |
1972-1973 Brandi, 17
1/2" |
| 1972-1973
Dina, 15" tall, part of the Crissy family of grow
hair dolls, Velvet's friend. |
1972-1973 Dina, 15" |
| 1973-1976 Baby Crissy doll, 24"
tall, white or black, all vinyl, size of a nine month old infant, grow
hair has a pull ring for
her grow hair feature, most of these dolls had a knob, brown eyes.
The white version came in a pink romper and the black version
came as shown in a lavender romper. Doll was reissued in
1981 in a white romper with yellow flower appliqué for both
dolls (doll shown). Part of the Crissy family of grow hair
dolls.
Baby Crissy is marked GHB-H-225
1972.
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1981 Baby Crissy,
24" |
| 1973-1975 Shirley
Temple, 16" tall, vinyl head with rooted blonde hair, brown
painted eyes, open smiling mouth with teeth, plastic jointed
body, came wearing the while with red polka dot dress from
"Stand Up and Cheer". Four additional outfits were
available separately in 1974-1975. Marked on neck:
1972 IDEAL TOY CORP. ST-14-H-213 Hong Kong. Mark on
back: 1972 2M-5534-2. |
1973-1975 Shirley Temple, 16" |
| 1974
Rub-a Dub doll, 16" tall, black or
white version, rooted hair, open mouth, baby type,
marked on neck: 1973/IDEAL TOY CORP./RAD-16-H-233.
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1974
Rub-a Dub, 16" |
| 1974
Tiffany Taylor, 19" tall, see the
Tiffany Taylor
page for more details.
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1974
Tiffany Taylor, 19" |
| 1976
Tara, 15 1/2" tall, only came as a black doll, you turn a knob on her back and her hair
grows longer, she
is part of the Crissy family of dolls and shares the fashions with other 15" dolls; Cricket, Dina, Mia & Velvet. She
is wearing her original yellow and gingham check two piece pantsuit with a white placket front and appliqué, edged with ric-rak and yellow cut out shoes. Photo
courtesy of Tara Salvatore. |
 
1976
Tara, 15 1/2" |
| 1976
Joey Stivic, All in the Family TV show, Archie Bunker's
grandson,
15" tall baby boy doll, anatomically correct. |
1976
Joey Stivic |
| 1976
Tuesday Taylor, 11 1/2" tall,
see the Tuesday Taylor
page for more details. |
1976
Tuesday Taylor, 11 1/2"
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| 1977
Magic Hair Crissy, 19" tall, came in a white or black
version, teenage body, has velcro on top of head to stick any
of five hairpiece attachment
accessories. Think she is not shown in original clothing |
1977 Magic Hair Crissy,
19" |
| 1978 Whoopsie, 13"
tall, blonde rooted pig tail hair, when her tummy is squeezed
she squeals and her pig tails go up, squeezed again and she
squeals and they go down, marked on head: Ideal Toy Corp. Hong
Kong 1978 H-298 and on back B-66. |
1978 Whoopsie,
13" |
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