Today we're looking at this little baby.
She's Teeny Weeny Tiny Tears.
She was made by American Character.
Tiny Tears had been around in various forms since 1950. She had previously been available as a much larger doll, in a few different forms: a doll with molded and painted hair, a doll with rooted hair, and a doll with a caracul wig. There was a smaller cersion made called Teeny Tiny Tears.
But apparently, that wasn't small enough. Today's doll, Teeny Weeny Tiny Tears, made her first appearance in 1964. She measures about 9 inches tall.
She came with a bottle and a pacifier. This girl still has her pacifier.
Her little hands are curled in typical baby positions.
And her legs are curved in a sitting baby, or crawling baby posture.
She doesn't have the crying feature that bigger Tiny Tears dolls have. She has no tear ducts. She does have a 'bottle mouth', that accommodates her bottle and pacifier.
Her eyes are sleep eyes, with hard plastic lashes.
In spite of the different companies, she bears a great resemblance to Ideal's Tearier Dearie doll.
That's it for today's doll. Tomorrow, another one.
I don't know this size Tiny Tears but I definitely know Tiny Tears. I had her and I had Betsy Wetsy. Unfortunately both disintegrated years ago, probably from all of the water in the rubber bodies. Also, they were in our unheated attic and I think the sun and then cold had an impact. Ricky, Jr. was in that bunch so he is gone too. Luckily Barbie (#3) was not in the attic so I still have her!
ReplyDeleteAw. How sad. Our Barbies were in the attic. My bald one with her nose tip shaved off, survived fine. but my sister's perfect Barbie had the tip of her nose, one rubber eyelash, and her chin eaten off by a mouse! Her swirl hair is still perfect, but her face! Have you seen that post? http://planetofthedolls.blogspot.com/2014/01/doll-day-20and-dolls-of-our-liveswell.html
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