“In the last two years there has been a rise in collectible values for American girl dolls,” Verderame told TODAY. “American girl dolls reference particular eras in history and that drives the market. Collectors also look for dolls that parallel their own history, look like themselves, and ...
Barbie dolls come and go, but American Girl dolls are forever. My daughter (now 27) got her first AG doll when she was 6.–Samantha–a historic doll. Other have joined the family since and are now stored waiting for the next generation of children to pass them on to. Back then, the...
She told Klinkenberg, she “liked drawing and making paper dolls; during the Depression she sold paper dolls for a buck apiece. She said she habitually entered art contests and won a scholarship to Disney’s School for Animation in California. She remembered the day when the Disney ...
Lord of tissue, lord of hieroglyphsand a puzzle full of theological quibbles,it’s prettiness that counts in china dolls. Lord of allegory, of hidden meanings,of radical fissures in the heart of rain,I have a skeleton underneath my skin, I am serious. I careen through the houselike a ...