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 ...

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?

Q My mom has asked me to see if I can find the value of this doll she has. The doll is about 25 inches long and has the words “Heinrich Handwerck” and “Simon & Halbic” stamped on the back of her neck.

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 ...

Enclosed are photographs of a bride doll I purchased years ago at a yard sale. It is marked “Made in Germany Armand Marseille 390.” It has a closed mouth, pierced ears and glass eyes. Are you able to ...

What do you collect? Is it tea pots, classic cars, action figures, record albums or trading cards? We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at dchval@juno.com or call Voices ...

These dolls come from Germany. A bisque doll is a doll made wholly or partly of porcelain - bisque is unglazed porcelain - and were most popular between 1860 and 1900. Comments are closed for this ...

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 ...