Porcelain Dolls For Sale - A Gift Becomes An Obsession
Have you ever picked out a gift for someone only to have it turn into an obsession? This
happened between my niece and me. When my niece, who is also my godchild, turned nine years old I gave her a porcelain doll for her birthday. I
had purchased the doll when I was on a business trip in Georgia. This particular doll was, of course, a southern belle, and as with all
high quality porcelain dolls the details were incredible. She had human eyelashes and hair, and her satin dress had yards of lace and ribbon as
trim. I picked one whose hair color closely resembled that of my niece’s hair. My niece absolutely loved the doll. She had never seen a porcelain
doll before and she wanted to know everything about them. At that point I realized that she would have a collection, and that I would be
able to add to this collection on birthdays and holidays.
My niece is now twenty-nine years old, and has spent the last twenty years collecting porcelain
dolls. I am not sure how many she has at this time, but one entire room of her home is dedicated to the collection. She is always looking in the
papers and online to find porcelain dolls for sale. She has many dolls from several different collections that have been given to her as
gifts over the years by people who know that she is a collector. When she looks for porcelain dolls for sale
she is looking for a particular series of a certain collection.
In her research of dolls she has discovered that the major manufacturers of the high quality dolls make a
limited number of dolls in a series. Because each doll is hand painted and has human hair that is also put on by hand, there are no two dolls
that are exactly the same. For the collections, the dolls will be dressed the same, but each doll has it's own personality and look
because of the hand painted expressions.
Currently my niece is trying to fill out three different collections of dolls. For one of the collections, she
is missing the first doll released in the series. The doll was released twenty years ago, and she searches online for porcelain
dolls for sale hoping to find one that has been part of an estate. The one she is looking for is part of the collection that I started her
with twenty years ago. Her husband cannot believe the amount of pride she places in her collection. She spends a great deal of money to
continue it, but my sister tells him to talk to me because I was the one who got her started with it way back when she was nine with the southern
belle doll.
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