I truly love this story of the mother Annie and her daughter Linda.  When Annie's daughter Linda was 2 years old she would watch the advertisements of the 22" Saucy Walker Dolls on television.  She wanted a Saucy Walker so much that when her parents went shopping for a 22" Saucy Walker For Christmas they were still being sold.  However, the father talked Annie into their purchasing a larger doll whose price was not as high as the 22" Ideal Saucy Walker.  

That very Christmas little Linda walked into the room and saw the larger doll under the tree and stopped and said: "That is not a Saucy Walker!"  Annie's heart broke to see her little girl upset about not getting the doll she really wanted.  That next Christmas Linda's parents went shopping for a 22" Saucy Walker and the stores had pulled them off the shelves.  They could not find them anywhere.

Since that time the memory of her daughter not being able to have the doll she really wanted haunted her for 50 years as she searched and searched for a Like-New Saucy Walker.... until she saw our doll listed not long ago and an all original 22" Saucy Walker and in "Like-New" condition.  In the photos below you will see an end to a sad but beautiful story of a Mother's love for her child. Linda now has her doll.

22" Saucy Walker Doll Original Restored to Like-New.

1950's Doll in excellent condition and restored to "Like New" and ready for display.  She comes with all of her original clothing, original rayon socks and Ideal molded bow vinyl shoes, a new set of pre-made white double satin hair bows with tiny doll bobbie pins connected to them.  The bows are stiffened for display, and her yellow hair bows are stiffened as well and made from party ribbon, a replica hang tag, and a new Kaiser Doll Stand.  See our excellent custom boxes below. No charge for packaging materials. USPS Priority is included in the price of the doll.

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What an adorable little 22" Saucy Walker by Ideal Toy Corporation to have restored back to "Like-New"!!  If you will notice, her little original dress still has the original elastic in the sleeves.  We did not have to replace them.  No rips or seam splits that we could find and bright colors as we cleaned the dress and pressed it.  Her original socks has no holes and her Ideal shoes are in good condition.  We kept her almost entirely original except for the eye shadow and blushing only on her hands and knees.  Her face blushing is original.  It looks almost as though the shadow is too dark, but actually that is not the case, our camera always makes shadow and blushing look darker than it really is in the real.  Her original lashes are gorgeous.  

Her walking mechanism has been completely taken apart and restored as only Dr. Hubby can do in precision that most do not do when repairing these dolls. I actually watched him today with my mouth open in amazement as he operated on a doll we have here for repair.  He thinks of all the tiny details on these dolls.  I must say that I am blessed to have this man here that is such a perfectionist. She is a perfect walking doll. Her body is soft looking because of his light sanding of her plastic.  We show you the two seams that have been sealed stronger than any seams she has now as he puts new plastic compound on the inside of her. We chose to not Air Brush her because of her being so original.    

Her hair as you can see has her original shine and braids from what we can see.  Her hair is clean and smells good.  Her bangs were cut by a child and this is the way so many of them come to us with.  We think they look great. We chose to attach the yellow bows at the top of her braid as I have seen in an original 50'd photo that is the way Ideal did so many of their dolls.  The bows are made from party ribbon because that was the color we had close to the ric rac on her dress and they are stiffened for display for many years.  We have included the extra white double sided satin bows that you see in the top photos. We attached tiny little doll brown bobbie pins to those white bows for you to place them anywhere. They too are stiffened for display.

Her eyes have been repaired and easily slide from side to side as you lean her.  Many think the eyes should slide from side to side when her head turns but that is not the way she was designed.  The leaning motion causes the eyes to move from side to side.  We polished them and also, as always, added our little platforms inside her head to help prevent any rolling and sinking of the eyes as these Saucy Walkers are so famous in doing so. (Just don't drop her on her head on concrete or a hard surface, however from our own experience long ago we did that and the dolls eyes were still perfect but I do not suggest that you give it a try.)

She is beautiful in the photos and in the real and very worth any consideration.  Thank you for your interest and God Bless!

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