VINTAGE 1971 DAWN VINYL LUNCHBOX & THERMOS ALADDIN

1971 Dawn Vinyl Lunchboxe & Thermos

Made by Aladdin

Price Guide Value $175

 Dawn dolls are small fashion dolls that were made by Topper between 1970 and 1973. The dolls were smaller than Barbie dolls, slightly over 6" in height.

The dolls were popular (they topped sales of Barbie for a while), but the company that manufactured them, Topper, went out of business in 1973. They were reissued in the late 1990's to 2003 by Checkerboard. Mattel's Rockflowers, produced in 1971, were in direct competition with Dawn. In England, Palitoy had a doll of similar size known as Pippa Doll.

The basic Dawn dolls were made of vinyl, were jointed at the necks, hips, and shoulders, with their knees being able to bend with a bending mechanism. The waists also twisted for posing. The dolls had painted eyes and rooted eyelashes.

Special types of dolls included "Dancing" dolls (where you moved the arm and the doll "danced"), "Head to Toe" dolls which featured short hair and three wigs (possibly inspired by the Crissy Doll), and "Majorette" dolls which spun a small glow-in-the-dark baton. Another, rarer, type of Dawn dolls were the "Flower Fantasy" dolls, which had the dolls standing in the middle of a plastic flower pot.

Dawn, like Barbie, was the main doll of the line. Dawn's friends included Angie, Dale, Glori, Fancy Feet, Jessica, Kip, Connie and Longlocks. There were four boy dolls as well: Gary, Van, Kevin and Ron. Dawn also had friends who modelled for a modeling agency: Daphne, Dinah, Denise, Maureen and Melanie.

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I have sold 2000+ lunchboxes on E-bay over the last 3 years and about 4000 outside of E-bay through other types of sales with lots of repeat customers. I sell to all types of buyers from the advanced collector looking for that rare mint one of a kind to the first time buyer looking for a keepsake from their childhood.