1950-PRESENT
The 1950 Sears Wishbook offered a 13-inch Tiny Tears by American Character.
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More Tiny Tears Dolls
Two versions of an 11-1/2-inch Tiny Tears with layette and carrying case were available through Sears Wishbook catalog mail order in 1951. The deluxe version had tousled fur wig. The other had molded hair. Layette items included a sheer cotton dress, bonnet, cotton slip, diaper, "bootees," soap, washcloth, sponge, bottle, bubble pipe, Kleenex, cardboard case with handle. The tousled hair version was reoffered in the 1952 and 1953 Sears Wishbooks with Palmolive soap among the bathing accessories. In 1954, a curly fur wig version of Tiny Tears in sizes 11-1/2, 13-1/2 and 16 inches was available along with a 13-1/2- and a 16-inch molded hair version. All sizes remained perfect for bathing with soap and other bathing and dressing accessories included. In 1956, Tiny Tears returned after a year of absence in the Sears Wishbook wearing a white romper with pink trim with the doll’s name embroidered on the front. The 1956 version was available as an 11-1/2-inch doll with rooted hair with accessories, layette, and cardboard case, similar to previous years; also a 20-inch version with playroom equipment, and an 11-1/2-inch version with molded hair, which included a Ding Dong School Bath, was available in 1956. Bathtub could hold water and had a drain, hose, and shut off. A fold-away vinyl table was included with this version, and her layette included the same items as prior years.
Shown in the 1968 Sears Wishbook, Tiny Tears (now manufactured by Ideal Toy Co.) was available in three different sizes: 9, 12 and 17 inches, each with washable hair and washable vinyl bodies. Among other accessories in their layettes, a blowpipe was included with each. The 9-inch version came with a sponge.
Rare Baby Tears with caracul wig is seen complete with layette.
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Baby Tears with molded hair has complete layette and carrying case.
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“A colored baby doll who cries real wet tears, drinks her bottle, wets her diaper. Her skin is velvet-soft and her head is plastic—fully jointed body. After she is bathed and you wash her tousle hair; you can change her clothes. Her layette, packaged in a trunk, consists of a cotton dress, panties, bonnet, shoes and socks, bathrobe and full set of accessories: bottle and nipple, Kleenex, diaper, pins, sponge, soap, bubble pipe, pacifier and instruction booklet. Baby Tears is wearing an embossed cotton romper."
Ideal’s Baby Coos, on the market for several years in several sizes, could be bathed, powdered, and dressed.
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1954
A 14-inch special purchase layette baby that cooed (and looks very similar to Baby Coos with mohair wig offered in the 1950 Sears Wishbook seen on the lower right in the above image), had Saran wig and came with Johnson’s baby soap for bathing. Magic skin body allowed little ones to sponge the baby clean. Other accessories included sheer cotton dress, bonnet, slip, diaper, shoes and socks, print cotton nightie, washcloth, three powder puffs, two safety pins, and six wooden clothespins, all for only $7.95 by catalog order from the Sears Wishbook.
Tod-L-Tot and So-Wee by Sun Rubber “loved” bathing and being splashed in water. |
1956
Babee-Bee with layette (1956) and carrying case was a Dy-Dee lookalike. |
1958
Drink-wet bathing babies were advertised in the 1958 Sears Wishbook.
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Drink and wet babies were featured in the 1958 Sears Wishbook. Some were promoted as bathing babies and included soap and other accessories for bathing. “A contented baby in her playpen” described as 13-1/2 inches and all vinyl had her own washtub in addition to layette and other accessories. “A 13-inch soft vinyl baby with her own scale, layette, and ‘hat box’ carrying case” could drink, wet, coo, and blow bubbles. Dressed in flannel kimono and panties, the 13-inch doll’s layette included a “dress, bootees, soap, bottle, teether, bubble pipe, Q-tips, Kleenex and baby scale.” She also had a “colorful carrying case of fiberboard with plastic handle.” The catalog description read: “Here is an outfit that will give a little ‘mother’ hours of enjoyment… has everything a baby needs.”
Budget-priced drink and wet babies suitable for bathing advertised on the same page as the above dolls in 1958 included a 10-1/2-inch baby with rooted hair dressed in a kimono and a 10-inch black baby (described as “colored”) with molded hair, dressed in a diaper. The rooted hair doll came with more accessories, which included a wood-framed bathinette, Ivory soap, towel, baby powder, glass baby bottle, and extra diaper shirt. The black baby’s accessories included a diaper, bottle, bib, bottle brush, spoon, funnel, teething ring, and bubble blower. Not shown in the catalog, a white version identical to the black baby could also be ordered.
During the 1950s-1960s squeeze Toys by Edward Mobley served as dolls or bathing toys.
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In 1958, a 16-piece bath set cost $1.95 when ordered through the Sears Wishbook. It included a “pretty drink and wet doll with sleeping eyes” with “polyethylene bath set.” Accessories were a bassinet, baby bath, and diaper pail with cover, cotton flannel doll blanket, and plastic vanity tray with carrying handle to hold hair comb, rattle, a bar of soap, and six clothespins.
1959
A variety of bathing babies, including Baby Coos and Betsy Wetsy were featured in the 1959 Sears Wishbook.
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Sears reoffered the 13-1/2-inch “contented baby with playpen” along with Ideal’s Baby Coos, Betsy Wetsy, the budget-priced baby from the year prior, and a different, larger 12-1/2-inch black baby that included more accessories in 1959. A bottle, sponge toy, extra diaper, towel, Colgate soap, and three powder puffs were included with the black doll.
1961
Drink-Wet baby (1961) with layette (available in black or white) included terry towel, sponge, and soap for bathing.
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Available in white or black (described as “colored” in 1961), a 16-inch drink-wet baby sold for $3.88 through the Sears Wishbook. “Cuddly, baby-faced doll, [made of] vinyl with jointed arms and legs, sleeping eyes” had sprayed hair. Dressed in a cotton fleece robe with hood, diaper, knit bootees, it came with an extra cotton print dress with matching diaper. The layette included a blanket, terry towel, sponge, soap, three powder puffs, and plastic nursing bottle.
Bathing accessories of soap, fish-shaped sponges, and washcloths completed this 1961 unnamed baby’s layette.
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In 1961, also through the Sears Wishbook, a several-piece layette was included with an 8-inch unnamed drink-wet vinyl baby, available as a white doll only. Lots of bathing fun was to be had with this one with its bathing accessories of soap, fish-shaped sponges, and washcloths.
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