Today I’d like to introduce you to the dolls who will live in the dollshouse.
They are vintage hard plastic dolls whose limbs are strung with elastic bands. These have plastic clothing just as our first ones did. They are about three inches tall. These girls were new in their packet. They are marked Hong Kong on their backs.
Meet Olive, Violet, Lavender and Petunia Barton.
They are pretty pleased with their new place so far and have been busy arranging the furniture to their liking.
Finally they settle down for some serious television watching.
But what’s this? Visitors already?
“Please let us in, our names are Scarlet and Daisy and we are homeless.”
Scarlet and Daisy were two of my childhood dolls, not the first lot, the second lot who had clothes made of fabric which had been glued on to them. When I found the girls they were in pieces, their rubber bands had perished and their clothes were long gone. Too many rides on my toy boat in the pool or the bath. As you can see Daisy has been mended with nail polish. Not much we can do about that scar.
I managed to put them back together again and quickly knitted up an outfit for Scarlet. She was my favourite so she was in pretty bad shape. Daisy just has a piece of fabric and a rubber band for a belt. I hope to carefully try to get some of the glue off them and make them some better fitting clothing later. In the meantime I hope the Barton girls will be nice and take them in.
Dolls, Dolls, Dolls 
Love!!!
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Love this and furniture! Brilliant!
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I’m going to have a lot of fun furnishing the rest of the house.
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Oh my I love it! I remember this type of doll, sleep eyes, hard plastic…but the ones being sold (during the 70s) here are much bigger, about 12″ breakable plastic and real fabric dress. Its good you still manage to keep yours.
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Yes, I’m pleased I managed to keep two of the six I had.
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Oh my gosh, what memories. I had these little dolls as the mother in my dollhouse when I was a kid! I went through quite a few as they tended to break off at the fine ankles. They were ALL called Penny, lol.
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They did tend to snap at the ankles and would never be given to small children today but the fact that some survived shows that even young children can be taught to play carefully.
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Dobrý den, jmenuji se Růžena a také sbírám panenky. Žiju v Česku, v Evropě. Velice se mi líbí tyto maličké panenky do domečku a zajímá mě, jestli se ještě dají někde koupit. Přeji krásné dny s panenkami. Růžena
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Hi Ruzena, old ones like these are hard to find. I think my sister found mine on eBay.
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I tried to look on Ebay, on Etsy and I have not found. So maybe sometimes appear. Thank you. 🙂
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They are rare and hard to find because they are so old and fragile.
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What fun you have. I remember my dollhouse, secretly built by my dad. I was so thrilled that Christmas. 👯
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I bet that was a great Christmas.
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Love this… I recently started playing… I mean working with my daughters dollshouse after I dreamed about doing an Instagram story line about it and the little people The Littletons who live there…. it’s beginning to take over my life! https://www.instagram.com/the_littleton_family_story/
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Lovely house, it is an addictive pastime isn’t it?
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It really is 🙂 great though. I’m getting such nice comments. Mind you I am finding that I’m thinking of the Littleton’s rather often.. plotting their next mini adventure! Oh well, keeps me entertained 🙂
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I just got some of these dolls in the fall,but mine are larger maybe 4-5 inches tall, they came in a lot of vintage cake decorations, And I have seen similar items in what are called “junk drawer” lots. I see them with doll houses for sale too.(E-bay). They are too big for my Marx house and too small for my Barbie house, so in the attic of a wooden house as my doll’s dolls.
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Yes they did come in a couple of sizes I think they were made for the 1:16 to 1:18 size house.
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