A Collector’s Guide to Ideal Dolls Identification and Value Guide
- Author(s): Judith Izen
- Category: Toys, Dolls, Games & Puzzles
- Publisher: Collector Books
- Publish year: 1994
- ISBN: 9780891455660
- Number of Pages: 260
Every American child born since the beginning of the twentieth century has probably played with an IDEAL Toy Company toy or doll. That's how popular and pervasive Ideal's influence has been on children since 1907. The Ideal Toy Company is one of America's oldest and largest manufacturer of dolls: dolls so popular they became a nation's obsession such as "Shirley Temple," "Betsy Wetsy®," or "Patti Playpal." Ideals' doll production was so proliferate that over 500 different dolls were "brought to life."
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COVER
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Foreword
About the Author
How To Use This Book
What Material Is My Doll Made Of?
The Beginning of Ideal Dolls
Ideal's Golden Era
Ideal The "Mass Merchandising" Era
Family Photographs
Ideal Dolls Photographs
Ideal Dolls Not Photographed
Shirley Temple Dolls Produced By Ideal
Miss Revlon and Her Outfits
Little Betsy Wetsy® Fashions
Tammy Family Fashions
Crissy® Family of Grow-Hair Dolls
Mysteries Solved
Mysteries Remaining
Ideal Company Major Trademarks
References
Ideal Doll Index