You've probably spotted countless adorable antique toys during trips to the thrift store, but there's one valuable vintage ...

Another French Jameau, this porcelain doll has bisque features and an impeccably detailed outfit with extraordinarily well-preserved hair for a gal hailing from the 19th century. Made in 1900 ...

Any information would be appreciated. Thank you. - B.L., Davenport, Iowa. DEAR B.L.: All-bisque dolls such as these are sometimes called "immobile" because they have no moving parts. Other all ...

I’m hoping you can help me out. A Your lovely bisque head doll is a very good example of both the collaborative and competitive nature of the doll industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

“The dolls with the strawberry-blonde hair are certainly the most desirable, often realising up to $3000,” he says. Those who played with Barbie or have collected the doll as an adult would also be ...

The dolls are both made of bisque, which is simply an unglazed porcelain that came into fashion in the late 1860s and was popular until composition dolls came along. The unattached wig is no ...

“This level of materialism, after all, is never about necessity.” A German bisque doll from around 1900 gailf548 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 There was a racial component to the ...

an 1860s china doll in a lace-trimmed dress; Miss Havisham, an 1880s porcelain bisque doll named after the antagonist of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations; a doll dubbed Lizzie Borden in a nod ...