While other kids his age were mowing lawns for extra cash, then-14-year-old Marshall Martin was reassembling antique dolls and selling them through newspaper ads. “Even as a little boy I was a ...

You wouldn't know it to look at their little faces, but antique dolls are complicated. At least, collecting them is. There's so much to know, so many possibilities, so many dolls, so little time, that ...

“You’re not a weirdo because you collect Barbies,” Marl Davidson, who recently sold a vintage, hand-painted Barbie for $20,000, tells PEOPLE Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who ...

MANKATO — When she was a child, Pat Stoeckel wasn’t much of a doll person. Instead, she spent her formative years riding her father’s horses. It wasn’t until she was in her 20s that a fascination with ...

Long before the movie “Barbie” took over the world, Barbie dolls reigned supreme. As the most popular doll of every generation since the ’60s, Barbies have transcended decades. The vintage doll is ...

ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — Antique doll collectors from the Southwind Doll Club hold their annual show Oct. 3 in Escondido. The nonprofit club is part of the Federation of Dolls Clubs and donates to local ...

Robin Grubbs has been a doll collector for many years and a member of the North Louisiana Antique Doll and Toy club for close to fifteen years. “I love being with other collectors to share what we ...

Ah, Barbie: The 20th century’s signature doll. Just under 12 inches tall, equipped withthe mythic porportions of 36-19-35, Barbie will celebrate her 35th birthday next March. En Route, she has perhaps ...

With eyes as round as grapes and lips too small to do anything but pout, Blythe dolls look like sullen angels. Those haunted stares work to their advantage in a crowded market; Blythes have spent the ...

Man claims theft of controversial, pregnant "Midge" Barbie doll. June 24, 2011— -- You've heard of Skipper (Barbie's younger sister), Christie (an African-American friend) and Kira (a Pacific ...