Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
Debbie Behan Garrett has a special way with dolls. She hears what they have to say, wordlessly, through the feelings they engender inside her. They are dolls that have led lives, passed through hands (or…
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
I wasn’t sure what I’d find when I drove to Washington recently for the convention of the United Federation of Doll Clubs. I knew what I’d be looking for, though. Black dolls. Lots of them.…
Posted in Dolls, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Reader questions
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…
Posted in Doll collectors, and Dolls
I met Diane for the first time a couple years ago at my first doll auction. My auction buddy Janet and I had driven to an auction house not far from Philadelphia that was having…
The brown doll was so precious that Annette took it wherever she went. She slept with it, hauled it to boarding school with her, and kept it by her side through all of her family’s traveling…
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For a long time, Sarah Robinson hid her dolls, kept them a secret from most folks who knew her. She piled them up on a bed in a bedroom in her home and never ever…
Posted in Dolls, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Reader questions
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…
Barbara Whiteman was a little fuzzy about the dolls she had as a child. I understood; so am I. I’m sure I played with dolls, but I don’t remember any special dolls. One thing I know…
The auction house was holding another one of its “special” sales – the second, it seemed, in as many weeks. These are the sales where everything is out of my reach, the merchandise high-rent with…
From where I sat slightly behind her, I could see that the woman had crossed off items on her “dolls I want” list. Her sheet looked much like mine as we watched one male bidder snatch up…
