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Highest listing price on eBay: $16,000 In 1959, Ruth Handler — co-founder of the toy giant Mattel — was watching her daughter, Barbara, play with paper dolls.
Additionally, the Girl of the Year dolls of the 2000s, which are limited edition and were sold only through one calendar year, can be worth hundreds, depending on the year and condition of the doll.
When Bruce Zalkin, a 59-year-old New York native who has lived in Florida since 1976, looks at even the earliest editions of the original 1959 Barbie, he can detect subtle variations that ...
Tom Tierney (October 8, 1928 – July 12, 2014) was a noted American paper doll artist. He is credited with reviving what has been described by The New York Times as the "lost art" of paper doll making during his career which stretched from the 1970s to his death in 2014. [1]
Price on eBay: $8,500 Porcelain dolls don’t have to be more than 2 feet tall to be worth a lot of money. This little lady stands only 15 1/2 inches tall, but her ornate details and impressive ...
The Hugga Bunch was a 1980s toy line from the Kenner, Parker Brothers companies and Hallmark Cards.Starting in early 1985, [1] [2] the companies manufactured the Hugga Bunch dolls, each of which held a smaller doll called a "huglet" in their arms. [3]
The theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria took place on 2 August 1986 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.The stolen work was one of a series of paintings by Pablo Picasso all known as The Weeping Woman and had been purchased by the gallery for A$1.6 million in 1985—at the time the highest price paid by an Australian art gallery for an artwork.
American Girl dolls were a cult-like phenomenon that seemed inescapable for any child of the '90s. In 1986, the first three dolls hit the market – Molly McIntire, Kirsten Larson and Samantha ...