Name: More Brown Eye Dolls by Remco
Made by and When: Remco, sculpted by Annuel Burrows, 1968-1969
Material: Soft vinyl heads and rigid vinyl bodies
Head Marks and Height:
Baby Sister Grow-a-Tooth: (On the head) 2805 / 13 / EYE / E2 / REMCO Ind. INC / 1968; (on the body) REMCO IND. INC. / 1966 / 3M; 1969 is on the box; 14-1/2 inches tall.
Brown Eye Tina: (On the head) E 6 / REMCO Ind. INC / 19©68; 1969 is on the box; 15 inches tall.
Tippy tumbles: (On the head) 2-74 / 17 EYE (hair is rooted on top of these marks) / 8M / E15 / REMCO IND. INC. / 1968; 1968 is on the box; 16 inches tall.
Tumbling Tomboy: (On the head) REMCO Ind. INC / 1968; 1969 is on the box; 16 inches tall.
Hair, Eyes, Mouths, and Functions, if any: All dolls have brown eyes with applied upper eyelashes and painted lower eyelashes on the outer side corners of the eyes. Baby Grow-a-Tooth and Tina have sleep eyes. Tippy Tumbles and Tumbling Tomboy have stationary eyes.
Brown Eye Baby Sister Grow-a-Tooth: Short straight black-rooted hair with bangs. The mouth is open with a growing tooth feature; comes with a magic bottle, pacifier, and spoon.
Brown Eye Tina: Black-rooted hair with a long side ponytail. The mouth is closed. Tina is not a mechanical doll.
Brown Eye Tippy Tumbles: Short straight black-rooted hair with bangs, smiling mouth with white painted space for teeth; tumbles backward and forward, sits up, stands on her head, pulls herself up, does a handstand, and other tricks.
Brown Eye Tumbling Tomboy and Her Go-Cart: Long black-rooted hair with two side braids and bangs, smiling mouth with white painted space for teeth; came with a remote-controlled go-cart to ride backward and forward, does flips and tumbles and other tricks similar to Tippy Tumbles.
Clothes: All dolls wear their original clothing.
Other: During the late 1960s, African American doll designer Annuel McBurrows created a series of ethnically correct Black dolls for Remco to help fill the recognized need for ethnically correct black dolls for Black children. The series was called Brown Eye dolls. McBurrows (seen in a headshot on the dolls’ boxes) designed other black dolls for Remco as well. See other dolls in the Brown Eye series here.
Some of the Brown Eye series dolls were also manufactured as white dolls that used different head sculpts. White versions did not include Brown Eye in their names.
Gallery (Photos and details are courtesy of David Spurgeon.)
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