While other kids his age were mowing lawns for extra cash, then-14-year-old Marshall Martin was reassembling antique dolls and selling them through newspaper ads. “Even as a little boy I was a ...

“You’re not a weirdo because you collect Barbies,” Marl Davidson, who recently sold a vintage, hand-painted Barbie for $20,000, tells PEOPLE Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who ...

You wouldn't know it to look at their little faces, but antique dolls are complicated. At least, collecting them is. There's so much to know, so many possibilities, so many dolls, so little time, that ...

WATERLOO, Iowa --- In box after box, the dolls inside were in various stages of disrepair. But there were signs of love, too. Rosy red painted cheeks on china and bisque dolls were faded from the ...

Wooden dolls date back centuries. The earliest were crude carved pieces of wood shaped like a human figure. But today it’s rare to find a doll made before the 1600s, when English and German draftsmen ...

Long before the movie “Barbie” took over the world, Barbie dolls reigned supreme. As the most popular doll of every generation since the ’60s, Barbies have transcended decades. The vintage doll is ...

MANKATO — When she was a child, Pat Stoeckel wasn’t much of a doll person. Instead, she spent her formative years riding her father’s horses. It wasn’t until she was in her 20s that a fascination with ...

ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — Antique doll collectors from the Southwind Doll Club hold their annual show Oct. 3 in Escondido. The nonprofit club is part of the Federation of Dolls Clubs and donates to local ...

Man claims theft of controversial, pregnant "Midge" Barbie doll. June 24, 2011— -- You've heard of Skipper (Barbie's younger sister), Christie (an African-American friend) and Kira (a Pacific ...

Robin Grubbs has been a doll collector for many years and a member of the North Louisiana Antique Doll and Toy club for close to fifteen years. “I love being with other collectors to share what we ...

A Virginia woman bought a vintage Barbie doll from a thrift store for $10.99 - only to find it was actually worth up to $400. The toy would have sold in the 1960s for just $2 - roughly $20 today - but ...