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Ideal Crissy grow hair doll, 18" |
Ideal Novelty and Toy Company originally produced teddy bears, in
the 1930s they gave us Shirley Temple dolls, plus others, They were first in their industry to make hard plastic dolls after World War II.
In the 1970s Ideal gave us the grow hair
Crissy family of dolls.
Ideal's dolls are made of; wood, cloth, composition, hard
plastic, vinyl and magic skin and are considered to be very good quality.
Ideal Toy Company was acquired by the CBS Toy Company
in 1982, which eventually merged with Mattel in 1992. |
Vintage 1970s Ideal Dolls Identified
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1969-1974
Ideal Crissy doll, 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 and Baby Crissy 24" tall. Some dolls came
in both a white or black version.
Crissy
is 18" tall, sleep eyes, long rooted deep rusty auburn or black hair that can grow even longer,
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 dolls, 18" |
1970
Ideal Kerry doll, 17 1/2" tall, friend of Crissy and part of
the Crissy grow hair dolls. |

1970
Kerry doll, 17 1/2" |

1970-1971
Ideal Tressy doll, 18" tall, friend of Crissy part of the Crissy
family of grow hair dolls. Came as both white
or black dolls.
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1970 Tressy doll, 18" |

1970-1974
Ideal Velvet doll, 15" tall, violet eyes, the younger cousin
of Crissy in the Crissy family of grow hair dolls. Also Dolls; Talk
Velvet, Movin Grovin Velvet, Beauty Braider Velvet & Velvet
with Swirly Daisys, (last three dolls also came as black dolls).
Left, 1973 Beauty Braider Velvet
Black doll, still with violet eyes, also came in a white
version.
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1970 Velvet doll, 15" |
1971
Ideal Cricket doll, 15" tall, part of the Crissy family
of grow hair dolls, Velvet's friend.
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1971 Cricket doll, 15" |
1971
Ideal Mia doll, 15" tall, part of the Crissy family of grow hair
dolls, Velvet's friend.
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1971 Mia doll, 15" |
1971
Ideal Belly Button
doll,
9" tall, all vinyl, baby type doll with bent legs, rooted hair, white or
black, dressed in a romper.
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1971 Belly Button doll,
9" |
1971-1972
Ideal Bizzie Lizzie doll, 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
sweeper
& her battery operated pack came in a pink plastic
toolbox, doll marked on head 1970, doll marked on body 1971.
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1971
Bizzie Lizzie doll, 17 1/2" |
1971 Ideal Patti Partridge doll, 16" tall,
performing hand doll or puppet like, with a squeeze
mechanism on dolls back to make her; smile, clap hands or yawn, vinyl head
with bright redish orange short curly rooted hair, sleep eyes
real upper eyelashes,
open mouth with two upper tooth, cloth stuffed body with partial
soft palstic limbs. Unknown how doll is marked. Box
is marked: IDEAL NO. 0543-9 EXCLUSIVE DOLL. From the
1970s TV show The Partridge Family, youngest daughter Tracy
Partridge's doll.
Photo courtesy of
littlemarz
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1971 Patti Partridge doll, 16" |
1971
Ideal 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 doll, 17" |
1971-1972
Ideal Scribbles doll, 9" tall, 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*jeff |

1971-1972
Scribbles doll, 9" |

1972-1974
Ideal Cinnamon doll, 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 doll,
11 1/2" |
1972-1973
Ideal Brandi doll, 17 1/2" tall, part of the Crissy family of
grow hair dolls, Crissy's friend. |
1972-1973 Brandi doll, 17
1/2" |
1972-1973
Ideal Dina doll, 15" tall, part of the Crissy family of grow
hair dolls, Velvet's friend. |
1972-1973 Dina doll, 15" |
1973-1976
Ideal 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 doll,
24" |
1973-1975
Ideal Shirley
Temple doll, 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 doll, 16" |
1973 Ideal Stretchie doll, 8" tall, vinyl head with rooted hair in six
colors; aqua, blonde, brunette, green, pink or yellow, painted faces,
closed smiling mouth, plastic accordion pleated arms with mitt hands and legs
with plastic shoes attached, that a child could
twist, turn or tangle, wore a cotton sun dress, came packaged in a plastic
pocketbook. Doll marked 1973 Ideal. |

1973 Ideal
Stretchie doll, 8" |
1974-1978
Ideal Rub A Dub Dolly doll, 17" tall, black or
white version, rooted hair, open mouth, baby type,
doll marked on head: © 1973 IDEAL TOY CORP RAD-16-H-233
doll marked on back: © 1973 IDEAL TOY CORP Hollis NY 11423 RAD 17
2M-5852-01. |
1974
Rub A Dub Dolly doll, 17" |
1974
Ideal Tiffany Taylor doll
is 19" tall, has rooted hair and eyelashes, painted blue eyes, non-bendable arms and legs, is a beauty. She
is jointed at the neck, shoulders and waist. She had twelve (12) separate "Teenage Fashion outfits"
from Ideal in 1975. Doll also came in a black
version.
If you turn the top of Tiffany's hair cap it flips from blond to dark brunette. The blond side is no bangs and the brunette has
bangs. There are several shades of blond from platinum to a lemon shade. Don't confuse this with
11 1/2" Tuesday Taylor, that's another Ideal doll who shares the same flip style hair feature as Tiffany.
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1974 Tiffany Taylor doll, 19 |
1976
Ideal Tara doll, 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.
Tara
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 doll, 15 1/2" |
1976
Ideal Joey Stivic doll, 15" tall, All in the Family TV show, Archie Bunker's
grandson, baby boy doll, anatomically correct. |

1976
Joey Stivic doll, 15" |
1976
Ideal Tuesday Taylor doll, 11 1/2" tall,
Tuesday Taylor a white doll and Taylor Jones a black doll, are both vinyl
fashion dolls with rooted hair,
real eyelashes, painted eyes, non-bendable arms and legs. You can turn the top of her hair cap and it flips from (Tuesdays hair) sun streaked blond to dark brown.
Both dolls are wearing a full length aqua halter style, fitted dress and white open toe heels.
The Tuesday Taylor doll mark © 1975 IDEAL H-248 Hong Kong on neck. |

1976
Tuesday Taylor doll,
11 1/2"
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1977
Ideal Magic Hair Crissy doll, 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 doll,
19" |
1978 Ideal Kissy doll, 3" tall, three dolls in the
series, all vinyl dolls with a jointed body at neck, shoulders and
hips, rooted hair in blonde, brunette or auburn, painted eyes,
open mouth to press on a surface and leave a non-toxic,
cleanable, kiss mark. Doll marked Ideal 1978. |

1978 Kissy doll, 3" |
1978
Ideal Whoopsie doll, 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 doll,
13" |
Ideal doll not shown
1971 Ideal Harmony
doll with her guitar, 21" tall, battery operated head moves to the guitar
music, vinyl head with long blonde or brunette rooted hair, big brown eyes with
real long eyelashes painted lower lashes, open closed moth with upper teeth
showing, hard plastic body jointed at the neck, shoulders, ball jointed elbows
and hips. Harmony came wearing a long pink and white gingham dress,
sandals with her brown guitar. Other outfits available. Doll marked
© 1972 Idea logo on neck,
© 1972 IDEAL TOY CORP on back.
Ideal dolls not shown, if produced it was in limited numbers
1981
Ideal Laura doll & Robin doll, 11 1/2" tall, vinyl fashion dolls with
soft foam body. Had twelve outfits available separately.
1981
Ideal Loni Anderson doll, 11 1/2" tall, celebrity jointed posable fashion
doll, rooted platinum hair, painted facial features, wore a one piece sleeveless
red dress, white open toe high heel shoes. TV personality from television
show WKRP in Cincinnati. 50 or fewer dolls were produced, it is unknown
if, how dolls were marked.
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