Taswegian1957

Mystery Head


Today I want to show you another of the dolls from the doll collection that was given to us. This one is most definitely a Frankendolly. She has been put on to a Barbie body. We don’t recognise the make of this head.

It is quite a nicely made head, not squishy but not super hard either. Her lips have been re-painted at some stage. You can see that her eyes are quite detailed. Her hair is rather sparsely rooted at the centre but it is thick enough that she doesn’t have bald spots.

At the moment she is at Doll Spa getting the red transfer off and her hair washed and conditioned. I will post more photos later. We think she has a bit of a Marilyn Monroe thing going on so I’ll probably redress her in something slinky.

If anyone knows what doll this head came from we’d love to know.

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Published by Taswegian1957

I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs Toby and Teddy and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly. My dog Cindy passed away aged 16 in April 2022.

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  3. I lookrd there too,next Ill check in my clone bim. Unfortunately only half are tagged so far.Doll Junk is as good for the clothing as dolls.Sge does look familiar. wonder if I might see her in my Celebrity doll encyclopedia.

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  6. Howdy,
    She is definitely made with the Action Girl/ Dollikin head sculpt which was used in the early 70’s for Dollikin by Uneeda here in the USA and by Palitoy over in England for their Action Girl. I wonder if she is a Hong Kong clone from the 80’s, as a lot of companies re-used old head sculpts.

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    • I hadn’t thought of Action Girl/Dollikin. I’ll have to compare the face with Naomi’s Dollikins. I like your theory as there were a lot of clone dolls made in Hong Kong and as you say many companies did reuse those old head sculpts.

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