The Cutest Valentine Cards From The Past

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Baby Crissy

                                                                                Baby Crissy.  A beautiful Doll by The Ideal Doll
                                                                               Company.
                                                                                Baby Crissy is an example of a doll that has been
                                                                                re-issued many times through the years as the styles of                                      
                                                                               dolls and the fortunes of the companies making them
.This series will show them through the main years of
their popularity as the brand and maker of the doll changed.

                                                                     
Baby Crissy
1973 - Baby Crissy became a part of the doll world in 1973.
 She was introduced by the Ideal Doll Company.  She has the look of the Play Pal 
series of dolls and the reason is Crissy was sculpted by the same artist.
The sweet open smile with the white even row of teeth and large brown
eyes grab your heart. She has exquisitely molded feet and legs with
baby fat. She looks like a real nine-month-old baby. Baby Crissy
also has the long gro-hair ponytail. This doll was made to appeal to
the younger girls. And from 1973 to 1982 her looks never changed.
She can wear real baby clothes and that is why she is often found in
baby clothes. You can't tell what year issue she is without her
original clothes or box. No shoes or socks were ever made for her.
She has the cutest little feet and it would be a shame to cover them.

1973 – 1978. Baby Crissy wore a two piece pink diaper set.
There are some changes in the design of the pocket and collar.
The black Baby Crissy came in an identical lavender diaper set.

I had for many years in my collection a baby Crissy pictured like the one above.
I loved her very much.  She is a beautiful baby and is the size of a nine month old baby.
Her quality when she was made by Ideal Doll Company was excellent.  These dolls still look
good today.  Lucky is the collector that has one in her collection.

Re-Issue 1981 Baby Crissy

 In 1981, Baby Crissy was again issued but this time wearing a
white bubble suit with yellow and white gingham trim. Later that
year a Baby Crissy came out in a pink and white checked gingham dress
with bloomers.

1984 Baby Crissy

1984. In 1984, Baby Crissy re-appeared. This Baby Crissy looks

                                            different from the other ones. There are now three versions. All

                                            are 18 inches tall instead of the 24 inches. She now has molded hair

                                            with a tuft of real hair in the top front. She has sleep eyes and is

                                            a drink and wet doll. Her diaper set is now in blue and white polka

                                           dots.

                                           A second Baby Crissy also sleep eyed, 18 inches, drink and wet doll

                                           with no hair except molded hair. She is wearing a yellow and white

                                           dress and bloomers.

                                           The third version issued this year is the same dolls as the one with

                                           the tuft of hair, but is wearing a long white christening dress and

                                           bonnet.

                                          All of the 1984 dolls were issued in black and white flesh.

1985 Issue 18 Inch Baby Crissy

 

                                     1985.  Baby Crissy this year has short rooted hair, sleep eyes and is

                                     18 inches tall. She was dressed in a blue or yellow  print dress and

                                      matching  panties. There is also a version in a long christening

                                      dress with no tuft of hair. This same Baby Crissy was also released  

                                      in a dress trimmed with ribbon.

1991 Baby Crissy

 

Baby Crissy was not issued again until 1991. The Ideal DollCompany had been sold to a company called View-Master Ideal Group a
subsidiary of Tyco toys.
This company issued a sixteen-inch Baby Crissy. She is
wearing a romper with the feet being covered. She has the same eyes
and gro-hair as the original Ideal
Baby Crissy. She also wears a blue chambray dress with
yellow shoes and pink socks. This is the first shoes and socks for
Baby Crissy. Also issued this year is Teeny Baby Crissy, a ten inch
version with a cloth body
and chubby arms and legs. She is wearing a non-removable romper and
has blonde or auburn gro-hair with a ponytail. She has blue glassene
eyes.
The black version (pictured) ix dressed in yellow and white.

1995 Another Baby Crissy Re-Issue

1995. The last version was released by a company called Tyco
Playtime, Inc. These dolls were sixteen inches tall. Baby Crissy had
a comb and Brush and again had gro-hair. She wears a coverall and
has green glassene eyes. These dolls were issued in both black and
white flesh.