Not on display

SUMMER TIME GIRLS

Teenage Doll
©1977 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

card window box with extended side panel, printed in colours on yellow to show the title, maker's details and illustrations of doll in various costumes; doll name label stuck on to the bottom end
contains a teenage doll, soft vinyl head with painted facial features, black brow, white and black side glancing eyes with thin black line upper lash and blue eyeshadow
black long, rooted saran hair
teenage fully jointed poseable body, jointed with reverse socket head, shoulders, waist, hips and internal knee joints
dressed in a multi coloured long skirt of nylon fabric printed with large stylized flowers; matching bra, both trimmed with red braid; plastic flower lei around neck in yellow, pink and red on white band

Object details

Object type
Titles
  • SUMMER TIME GIRLS
  • MASQUERADE (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
card, soft vinyl
Brief description
Summer Time Girls, ©Airfix Products Ltd 1977, Made in Hong Kong
Physical description
card window box with extended side panel, printed in colours on yellow to show the title, maker's details and illustrations of doll in various costumes; doll name label stuck on to the bottom end
contains a teenage doll, soft vinyl head with painted facial features, black brow, white and black side glancing eyes with thin black line upper lash and blue eyeshadow
black long, rooted saran hair
teenage fully jointed poseable body, jointed with reverse socket head, shoulders, waist, hips and internal knee joints
dressed in a multi coloured long skirt of nylon fabric printed with large stylized flowers; matching bra, both trimmed with red braid; plastic flower lei around neck in yellow, pink and red on white band
Dimensions
  • Box height: 12½in
  • Width: 4in
  • Depth: 1¾in
  • Doll height: 11¾in
the doll may be 12in tall
Production typemass produced
Copy number
52956-5
Credit line
Given by the Palitoy Company
Object history
it looks more like a Sindy head and may have been made as a sample for Palitoy
doll was one of a set of three - Fun Time (52957-8) and Lazy Days (52955-2)
see also B.1724:5-1999 which uses the same material
Production
Reason For Production: retail
Associated objects
Collection
Accession number
B.1670-1999

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Record createdApril 12, 2000
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