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?

Dollmaker explains why the recent porcelain doll mystery spooked the world. — -- Porcelain dolls are deemed creepy by many, evident by the world’s recent reaction to a batch of them being ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’m often asked to help identify the age and value of antique dolls, but I’m not a doll expert. Even as a youngster, I didn’t play with dolls. I was an outdoors girl. But as an antique lover, I’ve ...

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 ...

Ann Marie Carlson shifted half a dozen pieces of the thin porcelain in her hands and dry-fitted them together. A piece of the forehead matched a cheek, a tiny nose fit into place and a skull piece ...

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 ...