25 Years of Doll Collecting
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Melissa & Doug Brianna - 12" Doll Sale Price: $13.00  |
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This sweet smelling, soft-bodied baby doll is just waiting for a little mommy to love her! With her open and close eyes, and shiny brunette hair, Brianna comes in a removable two-piece outfit with a charming embroidered heart and flower... |
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Manhattan Toy Stella Doll Sale Price: $21.00 |
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Melissa & Doug Jenna - 12" Doll Sale Price: $10.17 |
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This huggable, soft-bodied baby can sit up and suck her thumb or the included pacifier. |
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Melissa & Doug Wooden Family Doll Set Sale Price: $12.49 |
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Multi-generational, colorfully dressed figures are wire-framed, so they can pose in many ways, and make a great addition to any dollhouse. Inspire young imaginations for hours of pretend play! |
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Little Mommy Play All Day Baby Sale Price: $17.77 |
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Fisher Price's Little Mommy Play All Day Baby brings imagination to life. This lively doll reacts to a variety of fun, playful positions and movements such as bouncing, flipping, dancing, and flying, with adorable sounds and phrases... |
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Madame Alexander Baby Cuddles - 14 Inch Sale Price: $24.22 |
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Pretend play utilizes fantasy and imagination to help children learn about the world. As beautiful as they are, Play Alexander dolls are designed for a lifetime of play. This charming collection features dolls with cuddly fabric bodies with vinyl faces, hands and feet... |
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Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Walk & Giggle Doll Sale Price: $34.99 |
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Get ready for interactive playtime with the Fisher Price Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Walk & Giggle Doll. Designed for children age three and older who enjoy playing "mommy," this life-like doll features a repertoire of more than 60 phrases, songs, and sounds... |
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Corolle Les Cheries Doll Camille Ballerina - 13" Doll Sale Price: $30.31 |
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Arabesque, anyone? Les Chiries' Camille Ballerina is recital-ready in a leotard, tutu, tights and pink slippers with ribbon laces. She has an all-vinyl body, moving eyes and long rooted hair that can be worn down or styled up - it can even be shampooed! Blue eyes... |
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Toysmith Doll Care Set Sale Price: $13.40 |
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3 years & up. Everything your little one needs to care for her baby doll. This 29 piece set comes in a reusable zippered case with handle that measures 8" x 6" x 6". Set includes baby necessities such as bottles, diapers, baby wipes, dispenser, bottle warmer, and training potty. |
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Little Mommy Scrub-A-Dub-Dub Doll Sale Price: $15.78 |
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LITTLE MOMMY BABY BATH Doll Splish splash - girls can give their adorable baby doll a bath with her completely submersible body and play accessories. This sweet baby doll comes with a cozy terry hoodie towel and slippers, play bubble bath and bath toy... |
The past 25 years have seen tremendous changes in the collectible doll industry. Until that time, collectors only had antique dolls, or newer childrenâ??s dolls to add to their collections. As there were relatively few â??new collectiblesâ? to purchase, the market on these â??played with dollsâ? and antiques was vibrant and exciting.
There were many doll shows scattered all over the country, and a visit to one would find three types of dolls available, antique dolls, rescued discarded play dolls, and booths featuring doll makers wares. Doll makers were many, with their work ranging from dreadful to stunning.
Flea markets also found doll sellers, usually of the â??discarded child doll typeâ?, and many collectors searched regularly for collectible dolls. At the time, dolls being grabbed up were from the Chatty Cathy family, Chrissie and Velvet family, Patti Playpal types , Vogue, and of course Barbie.
With the emergence of the â??Ashton Drake Galleryâ? dolls, followed by many mass produced porcelain dolls by many other companies, all offering limited editions, artist renderings and much media advertising, many collectors changed direction and began to purchase these new dolls.
This new collector market was huge for a number of years. People scrambled to complete sets of dolls and to find dolls by certain doll artists. The market on older vinyl â??designed for play dollsâ? softened considerably during this period.
Home based porcelain doll studios, where you could take classes teaching you how to make your own dolls, also became very popular during this time.
A quarter of a century later, many dolls that were so popular, have now come onto the secondary market. Due to the market being so flooded at the time of production, and so many collectors jumping onto the bandwagon, the secondary market is now flooded with these dolls. The value on many has plummeted as a result, particularly Ashton Drake Dolls.
Other collectible porcelain dolls that were mass produced are for the most part worth only a fraction of what was paid for them initially. The biggest reason for this is the fact that these dolls are still being produced, the quality has improved a great deal, and the prices have gone down. What reason would anyone have for purchasing an older one!
The market on genuine antique dolls continues to be strong, and investments made seem to be sound. As the years pass, it is harder and harder to find antique dolls unless they are coming directly from another collectorâ??s private collection. This keeps the prices high. Unlike modern dolls, there are only so many antiques to go around!
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