Pop into any antique store in the country and you’ll likely find at least one porcelain doll sitting on a shelf (probably next to the vintage figurines). But how much are these delicate dolls worth?

A dear friend recently gave me a boxed set of eight little figurines. Each figurine is 3½ inches tall as well as numbered and marked “Made in Japan” and “Japan” on the base. None of them is broken or ...

If one of your hobbies is doing detective work to scout out the most-wanted items at estate sales and thrift stores, you know the excitement of the thrill of the hunt. Finding a highly valuable ...

Q.Enclosed is a photo of a doll that my daughter had in the late 1950s. I am wondering if it has any value other than sentimental. She has her original dress and shoes. I think she was called Patty ...

Dear Collector: Enclosed is a photo of a doll that my daughter had in the late 1950s. I am wondering if it has any value other than sentimental. She has her original dress and shoes. I think she was ...

Rare and unique antique dolls in mint condition, as well as newer ball-jointed dolls. What’s Not Today’s mass-produced dolls. For Barbara Lamb, dolls go way beyond child’s play. Visitors to her ...

Many American Indian tribes almost lost their culture by the 1960s because of 19th- and early 20th-century U.S government rules. American Indians could be removed from their land, resettled on ...

I like to imagine the voyage of a single porcelain doll I owned as a kid. Her head was made in Armand Marseille’s factory in Thuringia, Germany. Her face, maybe 1 of 1,000 made that day, was produced ...