Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources to help them determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Category: Dolls
Fridays at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
As a child, Deborah Johnson’s mother had a Topsy-style doll that she did not love. In fact, she hated it, Jennie Butler would later tell her daughter. Topsy was typically a dark brown-complexioned doll whose hair…
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Numbers were small but talents were big at Harlem Doll Show
Posted in Art, Doll collectors, and Dolls
Looking over the display of disparate dolls, I knew that this had to be the work of several doll-makers. The three-tiered display sported cloth dolls and dolls with papier-mache-like faces, black origami doll ornaments, and…
A genealogist intrigued by what she didn’t know about black dolls
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
Like most folks, Joyce Stamps didn’t grow up with black dolls, but when she was finally introduced to them fully as an adult, the genealogist in her was curious about their history. “I wish they…
An unabashed ‘dollaholic’ – and very proud of it
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
Vicky Forbes stumbled into doll collecting. She was on the hunt for a childhood doll, searching flea markets, yard sales and just about any place else for her memorable Charmin’ Chatty doll. After she found…
Baby dolls don’t ‘eat, cry, or grow up & sass’
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
Etta Houston didn’t start collecting dolls until the 1970s when her youngest child got married. First, family members would give her dolls, which I’m sure she accepted graciously, and she bought some on her own.…
The props that make a doll seem so real
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
When I arrived at the doll sale, I went looking for black dolls, even though none were featured in the photos on the auction house web site. I’ve started looking for black dolls these days as I’m…