We are fortunate to have as many as we do, and in such good condition despite their age. The dolls are located on the second floor of the museum in the Mary Hudson Room.
Please come by and take a look at them. Flexible joints. Original clothing yellow bonnet, yellow and pink dress. Max Diamond and Morris Cone. Dee and Cee manufactured dolls in Toronto, Ontario from — They were acquired by Mattel in Mfg by Reliable Toy Co.
From until they began producing their own dolls, first made of composition, later of hard plastic and vinyl. Reliable is best known for their Canadian style Indians and Mounties dolls. Synthetic short curly red hair. Original clothing plaid dress and white flat shoes. Ideal dolls are made of wood, cloth, composition, hard plastic, vinyl and magic skin and are of very good quality.
Ideal was first in their industry to make hard plastic dolls after World War II. Not long after World War II ended new development in plastic material was introduced by doll makers as a replacement to composition. Hard plastic material is durable, could be molded, washed etc.
The Ideal company was one of the first companies to produce dolls made of plastic material beginning in , soon followed by the rest of the industry. Red lips with hole for bottle. Clothes are not original. Dolls were made of hard plastic or vinyl in Hong Kong or Taiwan and assembled and packaged in the U.
