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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 688.7221075
EAN: 9780375720369
ISBN: 0375720367
Label: House of Collectibles
Manufacturer: House of Collectibles
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Date: April 12, 2005
Publisher: House of Collectibles
Release Date: April 12, 2005
Studio: House of Collectibles
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Editorial Review:Product Description:The definitive guide to antique, vintage, and modern dolls.
Doll collecting is the second-largest collectibles market today, with over $650 million per year spent on the hobby and over 400,000 readers of three major doll magazines. Denise Van Patten, a recognized authority on collecting dolls, provides us with this practical and unique guide covering antique dolls (1800–1925) vintage dolls (1925–1980), and modern dolls (1980 to the present and
never before priced). This new book features:
• Both dealer and Internet prices
• How to determine the condition of a doll
• Restoration and conservation of dolls
• Hundreds of photographs and doll marks
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In answer to the last review, the book has 900 photos. Nearly all dolls have pricing for both eBay and also non-eBay sources, and the methodology for pricing is clearly set forward in the first chapter. Each secton on a particular doll also has a market analysis for that doll.
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I found this book not up to par with some other doll collecting guides I have. It doesn't have enough pictures. I don't know how the author came up with some of the values. -It seems she just searched Ebay to find what the dolls were worth, I could have done that.
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This book was helpful in finding the value of some dolls, the pricing was pretty acurate compared to other books
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I think that this book is very helpful, lots of information for a very resonable price
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Once you start collecting one type of doll, your eyes start noticing all the other dolls as well and you begin to realize that dolls have an important connection to fashion, art, history, and technology. The Official Price Guide to Dolls by Denise Van Patten gives testimony to that thought shared by many avid doll collectors.
I like her easy-to-read format of the doll listings and photos. Her contemporary presentation of up-to-date facts prefaced in each category give straightforward ...
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