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Tiffany Taylor

Name: Tiffany Taylor Made by and When: Ideal Toy Corporation, 1975 Material: Vinyl Marks: ©1973 (Ideal logo) / CG-19-H-230 / HONG KONG (on the head); 6 /©1974/(Ideal logo) / HOLLIS, N.Y. 11432 / 214-5854-01 (on buttocks) Height: 18 inches Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Swivel skull cap is rooted with black hair with bangs in the frontContinue reading “Tiffany Taylor”

Saucy Makes Faces

Name: Saucy Makes Faces Made by and When: Mattel, 1972 Material: Soft vinyl face; rigid vinyl body, arms, and legs Marks: (Head) ©1972 MATTEL INC MEXICO / 2; (Lower Back) ©1972 MATTEL, INC. / MEXICO / U.S. PATENT PENDING Height: 15-1/2 inches Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Rooted short black hair in a bubble cut style, brownContinue reading “Saucy Makes Faces”

Cricket and Corky

Name: Cricket and Corky Made by and When: Playmates, ©1985 (Cricket) and ©1986 (Corky) Material: Vinyl heads, lower arms, and lower legs; cloth upper arms and legs and body that surrounds the tape recorder in their backs Marks: (Cricket’s head) 9250 / PLAYMATES / ©1985; (cloth body tag) Cricket / ©1986 / 1600 South TrojanContinue reading “Cricket and Corky”

Susie Scribbles

Name: Susie Scribbles Made by and When: Wonderama Toys, Inc., 1987 Material: Vinyl head, hands, lower arms and legs; brown cloth body, upper arms and legs Marks: H. GARFINKEL (on the head); a paper body tag reads Susie Scribbles® / All rights reserved / Mfg. for WONDERAMA TOYS INC. / Edison, NJ 08818 / MadeContinue reading “Susie Scribbles”

Kestner #245 Hilda

Name: Kestner #245 Hilda Made by and When: J. D. Kestner, 1914 Material: Brown bisque socket head on brown fully-jointed composition slant hip toddler body Marks: G Made in / 11.Germany / 245 / JDK JR 1914 / CM circle / Hilda Height: 17 inches Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Original plaster pate black wig, brown glassContinue reading “Kestner #245 Hilda”

Bye-Lo Baby

Name: Antique German Bisque Head Bye-Lo Baby Made by and When: Grace S. Putnam, ca. 1922 Material: Bisque head, brown cloth “frog” body, composition hands Marks: The head is marked COPR. BY GRACE S. PUTNAM GERMANY Height: 11 inches Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Painted black hair, brown glass stationary eyes with painted upper and lower eyelashes,Continue reading “Bye-Lo Baby”

Katiba

Name: Katiba Made by and When: Marion Forek-Schmahl for Sigikid, 1992 Material: Vinyl (head and limbs), and brown cloth (body) Marks: 8 / Sigikid / 24581 MS / 18/500 Height: 26 inches; the paper dolls measure 7 inches (Katiba) and 8 inches (Wale) Hair, Eyes, Mouth: The black human-hair wig is now styled in multipleContinue reading “Katiba”

1950s and 1960s Squeak Toy Dolls

Name: 1950s and 1960s Squeak Toy Dolls Made by and When: The Edward Mobley Corp./Arrow Manufacturing & Plastic Corp. (1962); CPC (circa 1950s); and Holland Hall Products, Inc. (1964) Material: Vinyl, plastic, paint, squeaker mechanism Marks: Height: 8-1/2, 8-1/4, 8, and 8 inches, respectively (group picture) Hair, Eyes, Mouth: The Mobley/Arrow dolls have sculpted blackContinue reading “1950s and 1960s Squeak Toy Dolls”

Dolls by Beatrice Wright Brewington (B. Wright)

Name: Christine, Debbie, and Other Dolls by Beatrice Wright Brewington (B. Wright) Made by and When: B. Wright Toy Company, Ltd., late 1960s Material: Lyka skin (a type of rigid vinyl advertised as “the closest thing to nature’s cover.”) Marks: The dolls’ heads are either marked 11 / B. Wright or Beatrice Wright / ©1967.Continue reading “Dolls by Beatrice Wright Brewington (B. Wright)”

Why Do You Have Black Dolls?

Filmed in 2012, the award-winning short documentary Why Do You Have Black Dolls? by Samantha Knowles explores why children and adults desire Black dolls. Doll artists, collectors, a museum curator, and other Black-doll enthusiasts were interviewed for this project. Read more about the young filmmaker, Samantha Knowles here. _________ Your comments are valued. Donations aid theContinue reading “Why Do You Have Black Dolls?”