I have written quite a lot about my Ideal Tammy family dolls and a little about Naomi’s Tuesday Taylor but both Naomi and  I do have some other dolls made by the Ideal Novelty & Toy Company so today I thought we would take a look at them.

The eldest member of our Ideal family is our composition Shirley Temple. Naomi and I rescued her from an antique shop in New Norfolk a couple of years back and she is our most expensive doll. This Shirley was made in the 1930s.

Next, we have Posie Walker. Ideal’s Saucy Walker was first made in the 1950s originally of hard plastic although later dolls had vinyl heads. Posie Walker is a bend knee version of Saucy. My Posie is a transitional doll with a vinyl head and hard plastic body and limbs. The Ideal company was the first to begin making hard plastic dolls in the USA  after the end of World War Two.

Ideal Posie Walker

Posie’s knees

Transitional Posie Walker

In 1965 Ideal produced Goody Two Shoes a walking doll with a vinyl head and hard plastic body. Naomi spotted this doll in the Op Shop in Oatlands and showed her to me. I bought her for $5. Her shoes are permanently molded to her feet. It took me some time to decide who she was but I believe that she is Goody Two Shoes. She is not marked Ideal as far as I can see but she is marked made in Japan above the smaller of her two battery compartments. A lot of her body has tape over it and I suspect that she might have split in half at some point or perhaps the owner thought she might.

Ideal Goody Two Shoes

Her shoes are molded on.

Goody Two Shoes has two battery compartments.

A couple of years later in 1967 Ideal released Giggles. I did not have Giggles as a child but I find her face very appealing and she was on my collector’s bucket list for a while before I bought her on eBay.

Ideal Giggles in her original outfit

Giggles has such a cute face.

I think it is something about the faces that attracts me to Ideal dolls. I was very taken with Crissy who has a very pleasing expression and beautiful eyes. I love her red hair too. I don’t have any Crissy outfits yet so I made this for her some years ago.

Ideal Crissy

Crissy in the garden

There is one more member of our Ideal family who is not pictured here. That is Tearie Dearie. You may remember this little doll who was first released in 1964. She was a 9″ drink and wet doll. She came with her own cradle which could also be used as a baby bath. Naomi had one as a child and now has two in her collection but unfortunately, they have been in storage for several years now and she doesn’t have a photo of them. Once we move they will come out and have a post of their own. As I could not find a free-to-use photo of Tearie Dearie online here is a link to some photos of the dolls on Pinterest.