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Identifying a Porcelain Doll?

Identifying a Porcelain Doll - doll wearing a dark pink satin dress with white lace trimI bought this at a thrift shop and have no idea how to identify it or know it's true value. Can you help?

Thank you so much.

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April 15, 20200 found this helpful

Check for identifying mark or number on your doll. Most of the time it is under the hair line/neck . If not any, you may have a mass produced doll and not bring in much value , because of so many in the market and uncertain times. Your value would only be Sadly $5 to $20 on a good day. if this is one of the many generic brands. Sorry!

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April 15, 20200 found this helpful

These dolls are pretty and nice to keep but the value will be very low especially without any markings/brand/name.
There are presently over 100,000 porcelain dolls listed for sale on eBay and 28,000 listed on Etsy. This just means that when just looking for a 'picture' it would be a very time consuming thing.

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You can narrow the search by putting size but then not all sellers put the size so does not always work either.

www.ebay.com/.../i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2323012...

You can look at eBay's sold listings to see what this type of 'nameless' dolls are selling for so you can get a general idea of value.
Doll sales were very bad before this crisis and there is no way to tell when or if this market will improve.

www.ebay.com/.../i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=porcelain+doll...

You can always search other sites and Google for a similar doll:

www.google.com/search?q=porcelain+doll&tbm=isch...

Sorry - just hope you like her and display her for everyone to enjoy.

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April 16, 20200 found this helpful

I believe these are small collectors dolls that were given to little girls back in the 70s to decorate their rooms with. I know my daughter got a lot of them that just sat on a shelf on the wall and the dolls stayed in little cubbie holes. This doll looks very similar to a few of the ones my daughter had on her wall.

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She was never into dolls and decided to give these to her friend that loved dolls. Dolls like this have very little value except to the person who owns them and loves them. If you were to try and sell this again you would more than likely only get back the price that you paid for this item or maybe a bit less.

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