If you are a porcelain doll collector and you haven’t discovered Brass Key, than you are missing out on the finer things in life. Brass Key has been around since the late eighties presenting us with plush teddy bears and other collectible animals. It wasn’t until around 1993 that they started producing their exquisite collection ...
Buying and selling Nancy Ann Storybook collectible dolls is a breeze if you know what you’re doing. By far the best place to buy and sell these highly collectible dolls is on eBay. I recently had an excellent consignment of Nancy Ann dolls from a local collector. Of nine dolls and two pieces of Nancy ...
Kansas City – Kansas City is rich with history and culture, and one of the best ways to fully experience what it has to offer is to take a look at how it has grown over the years. Museums all over the city are committed to preserving the story of its distant past, as well ...
The 1950s is often seen as an idealistic era, and the dolls and toys produced during the decade were no exception. Children’s dolls tended to be high quality, and as a result, many of the dolls of that era are now highly collectible. #1: Madame Alexander Cissy There is nothing quite as exquisite as a ...
Among the many types of dolls that have passed through my workshop to be repaired are the sultry vamps of the 1920’s, known as boudoir or bed dolls. These popular dolls represented a new era of a more liberated woman. Bed dolls were – shall we say, the cat’s pajamas or bee’s knees. The popularity ...
Everyone knows what the Barbie™ doll looks like. It’s known as the most popular doll that was ever made. But, other dolls have also become popular too. They hold a place in collectors’ cabinets as well. One of these collectible dolls is the Kewpie. Kewpie dolls didn’t need fancy marketing campaigns like Barbie dolls had. ...
When anyone thinks of a maker of collectible dolls the first thing that comes to mind is a company called Ashton Drake. For many years now this company has produced some of the finest collectible dolls in the world. There line of handcrafted “So Truly Real” lifelike baby dolls look and feel just like a ...
American Girl Dolls were the brainchild of a doll maker named Pleasant T. Rowland. Rowland saw the need for dolls that just “let girls be girls” instead of dolls that influenced girls to role-play as mothers or other adults. The doll maker combined this idea with portions of our country’s history, and then the entire ...
The dolls seem so lifelike, it might feel like you are holding a live toddler. You can visit the Newborn Nursery and “adopt” one of the baby dolls. No doubt many people do, as thousands every year tour the factory that makes Lee Middleton Original Dolls, the largest doll factory in the United States, in ...
