Doll-A_Day 2023 #214: Teeny Weeny Tiny Tears

   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.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #149: The Original Tiny Tears

  I have to start off with this: I haven't had a competition for a long time. The reason for that is that, in previous years, there were only a couple of entries. It didn't seem worth it. I thought about it for a long time. I almost did a competition last year for the 5th Blogaversary. I decided to do one this year and make the prize a really nice one. But so far there have still only been three entries, and,and let me reiterate, NONE OF THEM ARE VALID BECAUSE THE RULE WAS YOU HAD TO BE A FOLLOWER WHO SHOWS UP IN THE SIDEBAR TO ENTER. I can't respond to the comments left with the entries to remind them they need to follow to enter, because to do that I would have to post the comment, which would post the answer to the competition question. So I don't know if I will ever bother with a competition again. Anyone who wants to have a valid entry can become a follower  up to the end of the contest on the 31st. Those who actually entered still have time to become followers so their entries will be valid.
  Am I being too picky, people? Should I just award the prize anyway,even though the rules weren't followed? Other bloggers have used the same rules for their competitions. The reason is because increasing a blog's followers can help with several things, such as being given products to review. (It's for that reason I'm starting a Facebook page for the blog very soon. Apparently that's pretty much a must these days to be considered for products.) Everybody likes free stuff,and for someone who collects on a budget,like I do,it's a wonderful gift. The important thing is to stay true to yourself and your followers and give an honest opinion, even if the product was supplied by a company.
  So, on to today's doll. Since I recently showed you the late 50's/early 60's Tiny Tears I got at the flea market last summer,(If you missed her, you can see her HERE.), I thought today I'd show you the original Tiny Tears.

This is definitely not her dress. It's way too small.

Tiny Tears premiered in 1950.

The original version has a hard plastic head,unlike the one I showed you the other day,which has a vinyl head.

 

She measures 13 inches tall.

Like all Tiny Tears dolls,she has tear ducts at the sides of her nose. When she's given her bottle of water,she can 'cry'.

She has a wonky eye,and also...nostrils? The other one didn't have nostrils. Does this one get a runny nose too? That would be quite an unusual downpour. I used to to have a friend whose hillbilly mother used to say her nose was "runnin' like a sugar tree". Maybe that's what it would be like. The hole in her mouth served two purposes. She took her bottle that way, and also could blow bubbles from the bubble pipe that came with her.
She has sleep eyes with real lashes.

You can see her molded hair.

This girl's right eye is messed up and can't close properly when she's laid down.

Here's another look at her molded hair.

Look at those curls! As you can see, she was made by Ideal.

These shoes were on her when I got her,and I think they are actual Tiny Tears shoes. Does anybody know?

 

  That's the doll for the day. See you again tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 2019 # 145: Tiny Tears

 Between being sick,having a car that barely runs, and all the rain we've been getting this Spring,I have only gone to two or three yard sale this year,all on the same day a couple of weeks ago. But what a day it was. I made an amazing haul,most of which I won't keep, but which will help replace the car. Over the next few days I'll be showing you some of the haul I made that day.
 Today's doll is a doll from the first yard sale I went to that day. It was an amazing sale for vintage toys. I passed up a music box similar to the one I had as a kid for a quarter. (I should have bought it for that! You can see mine HERE. Theirs didn't come with a doll.) I did buy three Care Bears,a Popple,a somewhat worn Raggedy Ann from my childhood era,another couple of dolls I'll be showing you in the coming days,and this baby.

She's Tiny Tears.
 

She has a strange hairline. It looks like she's wearing a mask,but the hairline is just lower than her face level,in the same vinyl. The earlier dolls had woolly hair called caracurl. This isn't it.

She was made by American Character.

Tiny Tears was first made in 1950 as a rubber baby with a hard plastic head. This girl is the version first made in 1958, made completely of vinyl.  She's 13 inches tall.

 This is her original dress and romper.

The romper is a wrap around arrangement. I'm not sure this would work on a real baby!

Here's what it should look like.

There was another romper that was similar.

1959

The gimmick of Tiny Tears was that she could be fed a bottle of water and then squeezed around the belly, and she would cry through the giant tear ducks placed strangely on the sides of her nose. (And also pee.Mine doesn't seem to have,umm,the necessary arrangement for that.)

Her eyes look brown here, but they were green when I used the flash.
 

In 1959 Tiny Tears was given an interesting sleep eye feature. They were called 'rock-a-bye eyes'. When the doll was laid down, her eyes didn't close right away. They closed gradually. I read one description that said they would only close if the doll was rocked. In any case, they didn't automatically close when the doll went horizontal,like other sleep eyes. I think this girl must have those eyes,but not working correctly, because they don't even open all the way when she's sitting up.

 

She has dimples on her hands.

 

 And dimpled baby feet.

 That's today's doll. Don't forget to follow,and enter the Blogaversary giveaway,and check back tomorrow for another doll.