These catalog pages are from 1917! The dolls just a little more than a decade prior to this were mostly made of some kind of porcelain or glass. They started making dolls with paper mache, but those just weren't that durable. Once the process of composition came along in the early 1900's, most dolls were made from that material. It's basically sawdust mixed with glue, put into a mold, and then covered with a thick paint or resin. Because prior dolls were predominantly porcelain or paper mache and all had problems with breakage, these new composition dolls were called "UNBREAKABLE". They could, of course, break; but they were much more durable and many still look nice today!
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Montgomery Ward 1975 Boys Toys Catalog Pages - Duke, Lone Ranger & Tonto, Fighting Furies, GI Joe, Hombre, Dodge City, Big Jim, Boy Scouts, Johnny West, Planet of the Apes
These pages are awesome!
If you right-click on them and open them in a new tab, you
can see them even larger or download them.
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