Price on eBay: $8,500 Porcelain dolls don’t have to be more than 2 feet tall to be worth a lot of money. This little lady stands only 15 1/2 inches tall, but her ornate details and impressive ...

The Tampa resident has fond memories of helping his mother, Mary Elizabeth Peltonen, make some of these porcelain dolls, a ...

How Porcelain Dolls Became the Ultimate Victorian Status Symbol Class-obsessed consumers found the cold, hard and highly breakable figurines irresistible. Maria Teresa Hart - Author, Doll.

Lynn Emdin, 59, from South Africa, keeps her 1,000 porcelain dolls - which she rescued from second-hand websites - and lovingly restored them in her garden shed ...

After his mother passed away, Fritz Peltonen is now in possession of her porcelain doll collection. She made most of these dolls by hand: In total, there are nearly 2,000 of them. Peltonen said he ...

The result: Porcelain dolls were poised for a takeover. In the New Yorker in 2015, writer Thessaly La Force recounted Europe’s feverish obsession with porcelain.