Name: 1950s Dolls with Buns
Made by and When: Unknown, circa 1950s
Material: One-piece rubber bodies with jointed necks; the larger doll’s body is stuffed.
Marks: The smaller doll is unmarked. The larger doll’s neck is marked with unclear letters that precede the number 14. The right foot is marked 12 with illegible letters underneath followed by the number 1. TP-10 is underneath the left foot.
Height: 8 and 10 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Sculpted hair with bangs and a curly upswept bun, side-glancing painted black eyes that glance to the left and right, respectively, for each doll; open-closed mouths are painted pink and red, respectively.
Clothes: The smaller doll’s molded-on clothing and shoes include an unpainted undershirt and panties, white socks, and white shoes. The larger doll has unpainted molded-on panties, socks, and shoes. The smaller doll wears two snugly fitting beaded bracelets on both wrists that might have been added by a former owner or could be original to the doll.
Other: During the 1950s, rubber was a popular doll medium. To compete with the more popular rubber doll maker, Sun Rubber Company (makers of Amosandra, So-Wee, Tod-L-Tot, and many others), other companies made rubber dolls like the dolls in this installation.
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Other: Possibly sold as dress-me dolls, these two were probably fashioned after Sun Rubber’s more popular soft, squeezable doll, Tod-L-Tot.
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