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.

The 67-year-old doll maker, who runs her studio, Heidi's Puppenstube, from her basement, displays porcelain dolls throughout her hous. Skip to content. Close. Back America's Newspaper. 1.

The porcelain dolls left at the homes of eight families in San Clemente and resembling young girls who live there were left in a gesture of “goodwill,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Department ...

Unlike the other porcelain dolls, these were wooden toys, complete with three female dolls who have interchangeable clothing. It's not clear if the different dolls were left by the same person.

Fleming said she's been told that a couple of thrift stores are no longer accepting donations of modern porcelain dolls. But it still remains an option as there are a number in the area. Fleming ...

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 ...