A dear friend recently gave me a boxed set of eight little figurines. Each figurine is 3½ inches tall as well as numbered and marked “Made in Japan” and “Japan” on the base. None of them is broken or ...

Enclosed are photographs of a bride doll I purchased years ago at a yard sale. It is marked “Made in Germany Armand Marseille 390.” It has a closed mouth, pierced ears and glass eyes. Are you able to ...

Pop into any antique store in the country and you’ll likely find at least one porcelain doll sitting on a shelf (probably next to the vintage figurines). But how much are these delicate dolls worth?

I like to imagine the voyage of a single porcelain doll I owned as a kid. Her head was made in Armand Marseille’s factory in Thuringia, Germany. Her face, maybe 1 of 1,000 made that day, was produced ...

These dolls come from Germany. A bisque doll is a doll made wholly or partly of porcelain - bisque is unglazed porcelain - and were most popular between 1860 and 1900.