1964-67 American Character
Tressy doll,
a grow hair doll, Magic Make Up Tressy, Mary makeup,
and sister Cricket
and her friend Toots. See the Tressy page for more details and photo's.
1960s Plasty Petra doll, 11 1/2" tall, sold in Europe, this seems to be the clone that
Evergreen used. They also made a Peggy doll that was a Skipper clone with
a freckled face, later they changed it to a Francie like face
mold but
still on a 9 1/2" size body. Fred was Petra's
boyfriend and is a clone of Barbie's Ken doll boyfriend.
1960s Evergreen Miss
Teenager U.S.A. doll, 11 1/2" tall, had blonde ponytail hair,
cheaper hollow plastic body, straight legs - Marked: Evergreen, British Colony of Hong
Kong, wears a white ribbed knit swimsuit with a red ribbon with the
dolls name on it, pearl earrings in pierced ears, white high heel shoes.
1960s Genevieve Fashion
doll, 8" or 11 1/2" tall, rooted hair, painted features, dressed
and boxed, Made in Japan, doll maker unknown.
1960s Miss Terry Teen
doll, 9
1/2" tall, Barbie head clone doll, came with 16 additional mix and
match fashions,
maker unknown, made in Japan.
1960s Ideal Mitzi doll, 11 1/2" tall - also sold by Reliable
of Canada - was discontinued in 1962 when
they introduced the Tammy doll family. The 1962 dolls have much
more exaggerated, slanting eyes.
1962-1966 Ideal Tammy Family
of dolls; Tammy, Misty, Glamour Misty, Pose N'
Misty, Miss Clairol and Samantha (of the Bewitched TV show)
1965. See the Tammy page
for more details.
1960s Peggy Ann doll clothes of
Springfield, Mass, 11 1/2" tall, doll mark Made in Hong Kong,
long straight rooted hair with bangs, fully posable,
twist waist.
1960s Sears
Teenage Fashion doll, (shown above on left) 11 1/2" tall, don't know
dolls name but she's one of the clones and was sold thru Sears.
1960s Shillman Barbie clone
doll, 11 1/2" tall, also had lots of individual outfits.
1962 Uneeda Suzette
doll
11 1/2" tall, often called the "Big Head Suzette doll".
Doll marked
on back: ©, Uneeda, Doll Co.. Inc., 1962. She has large black iris eyes
that are slanted, a unique body construction that is like a Y,
with the legs attached to the Y's stem. See the Uneeda Doll page for more
details and photo's.
1960s Uneeda Suzette
doll
11 1/2" tall, this one has the Lilli clone head with
bubble cut or ponytail hairstyle, non-bendable straight legs one piece
hollow plastic body. This doll is not marked as
the doll above and once you see their faces and body would not be
mistaken for one another, probably has the U on back of neck, and may
have Hong Kong or no markings on the body. See the Uneeda Doll page for more details.
1960s Valentine Polly
doll
11 1/2" tall, doll marked on back with an arrow thru a heart
symbol. This unmistakable
Barbie face has almost straight across eyebrows which make her look, at
least to me, as though she is perpetually asking her owner "Why
Me?". This doll was also cloned with the copies being
made by an unknown manufacturer.
1960s Polly Play
Posy doll, 11 1/2' tall, brunette bubblecut hair style, made in Japan, she
also has a face that also seems to be
saying "why me?" Polly is posable, multi jointed and is very rare.
Doll maker is unknown.
1963 Debbie Drake doll,
11 1/2" tall, we think she was made by Reliable, doll is unmarked,
multi-jointed body; neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist,
upper thighs and knees, vinyl head with rooted blonde or
platinum bubble-cut
style hair, wore a red/pink leotard body suit just like Debbie Drake
wore on her fitness TV show. Doll is very unusual and very
rare.
