Tato doll, the King of sympathy. Doll of the first plastics of the 60s. Original clothes. It measures 55 cm

Lanco Brand

Registered trademark manufactured by Garbep S.A. Factory of jointed rubber and latex children and boys founded by Alfredo Benet Domingo.
Garbep will create the models and tea with some of his own designs for children of caricatures and popular types in felt semblances of Klumoe.
He exhibits regularly to the official and international Fireworks of Mostres in Barcelona from the end of 1952 to 1960.
In 1952 he records a ninot pallaso or clown with jacket with quadres and paraigües; own creations are the girl Nenuca from 1055; Pavita or Rita Pavita; Pituca (or Pituquita) with flat hair and cheerful dresses. Like Tato and Tata

Modern Dolls

World War II had a profound impact on doll manufacturing in Europe. Suddenly, most production ceased in areas where an industry had built up over centuries.

When peace did return, it bought with it revolucionary new plastics- developed to help the war effort and now available for all types of applications.

Light, strong, and easily molded into an infinite variety of forms, the new plastic materials demanded new equipment and new technologies for production.

Although the initial investiment cost were very high, manufacturers found that they could produce millions of dolls that were all identical , or create a line of dolls based on the same basic model , making only minor modifications to give each doll its characteristic features.

Plastic dolls of the late 1940s are vastly different from those of today . they were made of hard plastic and although they looked like the composition dolls they largely replaced they were lighter, tougher, and more durable.

The arrival of the polyethylene compounds followed, introduced in the mid 1950s. Commonly referred to as vinyl, it is a much more flexible material available in both hard and soft forms.

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