By: Kris L

Kris L — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:03:13 +0000

There are ’strict rules’ if you want to ‘collect’ as an investment. If you want to collect porcelain dolls because you love dolls, then you can put them where you want them, and can even take them out of their boxes for display. I find the current ‘rules’ on ‘collecting’ strictly for investment a bit ‘weird’ … I have several collections, of turtles (including the ‘turtles’ from the streets that they put there to wake people when they cross the lines), hedgehogs, and Eeyores (the donkey in Winnie the Pooh) … and NONE of them will be of any ‘value’ after I die, because I LOVE THEM and have them out where I can touch and hold them when I want to. If my kids or grandkids want them to ‘remember me by’ that’s fine … I have a ‘ceramic candy dish’ that is a large turtle that my late mother-in-law gave me on her 80th birthday … that is my ‘pride and joy’ and all I want when I die is for someone who really wants it to have it. I’m ‘weird’ about my ‘collections’ I suppose … but what is the ‘fun’ of having a collection you can’t ‘touch’ anyway? So … they’ll be YOUR dolls, and you may do what you want to with them … but you can’t say they are an ‘investment’ in anything but YOUR HAPPINESS … and THAT IS WHAT COUNTS MOST to me, and probably to you. So, collect away … and be happy and get the dolls you LOVE and not the ‘good investments’ … you’ll be happier, and that is more valuable than the ‘resale price’ of your dolls.

By: bordenwife

bordenwife — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:03:51 +0000

Hand painting, Originality, Date stamps or signatures, Quality, Age.. these contribute the collectible value of dolls

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