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Articles Posted in the Doll History Category
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Exciting Week – Mailbag – Doll Repair – My Life as a Doll Doctor
Question From the Mailbag I have had quite the exciting week with great questions…(which I will answer first), then… I want to show you a repair that in spite of all the damage…still turned out to be quite the pretty old dolly! But before we begin…I need to give a great big [...]
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Doll Repair Insanity | My Life as a Doll Doctor
Before I leave on vacation…(yes-no blog for 2 weeks!) — I want to show you another Doll Hospital case that most others would have turned away. This doll arrived with so much composition missing, and in such bad shape–I did tell the owner she may really be too far gone. This [...]
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Shirley Temple Still Going Strong | My Life as a Doll Doctor
I have probably restored more Shirley Temple Dolls in my career than any other type of celebrity doll ever. Although today, there are many iconic figures out there turned into dolls…it is really Shirley Temple that started it all. The first Shirley’s were produced from 1934 to 1939 by the Ideal Toy Company (designed by [...]
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My Life as a Doll Doctor – How it all started PART 2
I have to thank all those collectors who called wanting more of what got me started in this life of Doll Doctoring. I was a bit surprised about how many memories were conjured up by collectors (and myself) after reading part one of my blog..and hope to once again bring you back to [...]
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“I was going to throw her away…but” – Dr. Noreen of the Doll Hospital
Oh my, I bet I have heard that 100 times! The one thing I think I can never do is actually throw a doll away–especially a Patti Playpal! Patti is a big 35″ girl who was originally made from 1959 to about 1962. Ideal originally made her but you will find [...]
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Revlon Dolls – Then and Now
Revlon dolls – where did they begin and where are they now? Revlon dolls were first produced in 1956 by Ideal Toy Company. They were a tie in with Revlon cosmetics in what I would consider a very savvy marketing campaign. Revlon wanted kids to know the name Revlon before they were [...]
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Boudoir Dolls aka Bed Dolls
I haven’t written a blog in a few weeks due to our Tonner Halloween Convention. And I must say, it was a great one! If you were there, hope you had a great time. If you didn’t get a chance to attend, I hope you followed us on Facebook. Today’s [...]
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Doll Museums
Over my years of working in the doll world, I have seen lots of doll museums all over the country. I have also, unfortunately, seen more than a few doll museums close. I decided to put together a list of museums that are currently open. Museums definitely offer a [...]
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Debbie Garrett – a Tonner History of Black Doll Collecting
As our Tonner Blog circle grows we discover more and more devoted and talented doll bloggers, many of them we share with you here. One of these is Debbie Garrett who we first introduced here: Black Doll Collecting Blog – Robert Tonner Dolls of Color. When we talked with her she told us that she [...]
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Robert Tonner’s Love for Barbie – Doll History, Collecting & Tonner Doll
Barbie Love, Collecting and Tonner Doll We were all very moved by the pure love for Tonner Doll Darla showed as a long time Barbie collector who purchased her first Tonner Doll (video bottom below). So much so that Robert began reflecting upon his own early serious Barbie collecting and the place she had in [...]
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