Ideal Harriet Hubbard Ayer Doll Toni Family 1953 Large buying 19" Vintage Mk 19

This listing is vintage advertising Harriet Hubbard Ayers Doll made by Ideal.
This is a rare large doll. She is 19" tall
Her hard plastic torso and legs are creamy with high color at her knees. She has a vinyl head with glued on a brown wig, and her arms are vinyl and have distinctive long fingernails that have been buying colored a deep red.
Her hard plastic body and legs have no cracks, and she does not need restringing, her legs, and vinyl arms are tight.
Harriet's hair needs styling but retains lots of curls. She has nice green pinwheel eyes and her eyelashes are in good condition.
She is marked "Ideal Doll P-19" on her back, and "MK-19 Ideal Doll" on the back of her neck.
MK 19/Ideal and is difficult to find in such wonderful condition as they were produced for only a short time.
She's wearing cream pants, a striped pink dress, and a large lavish hat.
She has black shoes that are original and marked Ideal on the bottom
Please see the photos and ask any questions.
This is a truly beautiful doll and would make a great addition to your collection.
She is in good condition with some minor wear. She would benefit from some proper cleaning. Simply gorgeous!
The doll manufacturers observed the popularity of the beauty products and the fashions flooding the pages of magazines and newspapers. The marketing people also realized that associating their dolls with a popular product would certainly increase sales. A popular product name would mean a popular product, at least that was the plan.
One of the earliest doll manufacturers to take advantage of this sales idea was the Ideal Toy Company. Ideal was known for their fine dolls and had been in business since the early 1900s, but the postwar period was a new market and they were eager to compete.
A variation of the Toni doll was the Harriet Hubbard Ayer doll. This doll by Ideal used the Toni body but had a vinyl head and vinyl arms.
The Harriet Hubbard Ayer Cosmetic Company provided a cosmetic kit with each doll.
"Child-safe" makeup including eyebrow pencil, eyeliner, rouge, lipstick, and fingernail polish came with the doll and could be applied to the vinyl face and to the very unusual long fingernails.