Featured is a wonderful Toni walker Doll.
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- She is in her original navy blue dotted Swiss dress.
- This Ideal Toni doll was a cross promotion with Toni Home Permanent.
- The Ideal Toni doll was introduced in 1949 as an advertising doll for Toni Home Permanent.
- Toni is made of all hard plastic and has a jointed body.
- The earliest dolls wore a nylon wig.
- She has sleep eyes, real upper eyelashes, painted lower lashes, a small rosebud painted closed mouth.
- She was a loved doll by many little girls and today by doll collectors of all ages.
- Make a little girl’s room special and unique with several antique or vintage dolls.
- The first known dolls date back to the 21st century BC in Egypt – they were simple wooden stick figures.
- Dolls with interchangeable clothing and moveable limbs existed as early as 200 BC.
- The 19th century saw the advent of glazed porcelain dolls and unglazed bisque dolls.
- Up to the mid-1800s, European dolls usually represented adults, with childlike dolls appearing and dominating the market by the late 1800s.
- The 19th century saw a fashion doll trend for French bisque dolls.
- Plastic dolls became popular in the 20th century.
- The first Barbie doll was released in 1959.
