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 ...

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 ...

Heidi Phelps wants people to dream when they visit her home. The 67-year-old doll maker, who runs her studio, Heidi’s Puppenstube, from her basement, displays porcelain dolls throughout her house in ...

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 ...

Both the PBS and BBC iterations of Antiques Roadshow have seen many impressive and precious dolls appraised over the years, but they still disturb viewers and even some experts. Most vintage dolls don ...

said Pat Thompson from the back room of her Vlasta Dolls studio in Beecher. And what a fantasy it is. It begins with dreamy-eyed dolls dressed in drop-dead gorgeous couture costumes made from ...

ANTIQUES Roadshow fans were amazed at the whopping value of Lady Eleanor, a vintage porcelain doll, by one of the BBC show’s experts. Viewers of the much-loved BBC show were taken aback by a “creepy” ...

An episode of the US edition of Antiques Roadshow has left viewers completely freaked out, after an owner brought in a creepy porcelain doll dating back to Victorian times with an even more terrifying ...

Pollock’s Toy Museum is one of London’s loveliest small museums, a creaking Dickensian warren of wooden floors, low ceilings, threadbare carpets, and steep, winding stairs, housed in two connected ...

Richard Meunier wasn't expecting to find a pair of eyes looking back at him when he climbed a ladder outside a historic house in downtown Moncton and pulled off a couple of clapboards. Meunier was ...