Great Books for Antique Doll Information

More Opportunities For a Doll Reference Guide to help with Identification--Value? One of These Books May Do the Trick!

Simon & Halbig Dolls: The Artful Aspect Hardcover – December 1, 1984

"Latest reference book for collectors by this author! 26 beautiful color and 445 b/w photographs with extensive details for each doll. Historical background to this German doll's head maker. Greatest variety of S&H molds ever shown! Exposes the collector to the captivating Simon & Halbig faces plus the accurate identification desired by collectors. 236 pages."

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This valuable reference book concerns itself with the beautiful doll heads produced by the Simon & Halbig porcelain factory in Grafenhain near Ohrduf, Thuringen, Germany, from the 1880s to the 1920s. These beautiful, high quality dolls heads are a close second choice to the heads made by the J.D. Kestner company, also of Germany. Such well-known names in the German and French doll industry as Kammer & Reinhardt, C.M. Bergmann, Heinrich Handwerck, Jumeau and Roullet & Decamps purchased doll heads from Simon & Halbig and attached them to their own bodies.

Simon & Halbig was known for excellent sculpting of their doll heads, and the high quality of their bisque (porcelain). Among collectors, a Simon & Halbig head, regardless of the maker of the body, makes that doll a Simon & Halbig creation. Consequently, the doll heads illustrated in this book on another doll maker's bodies could all come under the designation "Simon & Halbig".

The author's extensive research, as well as the 539 black-and-white and 26 color illustrations make this an invaluable reference work for the serious collector. Included here are chapters on their well-known dolly faces, character dolls, all-bisques, toddlers and lady dolls.

Studying the extensive selection of faces and memorizing the mold numbers will enable a collector to identify a Simon & Halbig doll from a distance. All this and more makes this compilation of mold numbers, dates and marks the most complete and up-to-date reference book available to collectors on Simon & Halbig doll heads.

Baby Boomer Dolls Plastic Playthings of the 50's & 60's, Second Edition Paperback – August 13, 2003

"The book features the latest secondary-market prices for over 500 dolls and includes 400+ colour photographs. of the baby-boomer era, from well-known films like Mattel, Ideal and Madame Alexander to smaller, lesser-known producers. and Miss Revlon as well as film and television-based favourites like Shirley Temple, Patty Duke, The Flying Nun and Pebbles and Bam-Bam."

Complete Composition Repair - How to Repair and Restore Composition Dolls Spiral-bound – 1990

"Complete Composition Repair--How to repair and restore composition dolls was written by LaVonne Lutterman and is the second revised edition, Ca. 1981. It has 35 chapters on repairing composition dolls. Included are working with doll wigs, eyes, painting, cleaning, rebuilding materials, adhesives to use, assembling bodies, mechanical & walker bodies, squeakers and criers, filling and sealing, molds, cracks and blisters, assembling broken pieces, repairing large holes, replacing missing hooks in limbs, repairing sockets & balls, working with fingers and toes, replacing eyelashes, etc."

The Elise Files: Reference for Madame Alexander Elise with Cissy and Cissette Sister Sets Hardcover – 2018

"JUST RELEASED! Don't wait.... The Cissy Files sold-out and second market prices are through the roof. This book has a smaller print run. The Elise Files is the first-ever complete reference for Vintage Elise. Elise is a 16 inch fashion doll with jointed ankles manufactured by the Madame Alexander Doll Company. Elise was released in 1957, two years after Cissy. She is a teen-aged debutante doll with a wardrobe ranging from tutus to Portrait gowns. She has been sandwiched between Cissy and Cissette and is just now emerging from the shadows."

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The Joy of Junk: Go Right Ahead, Fall In Love With The Wackiest Things, Find The Worth In The Worthless, Rescue & Recycle The Curious Objects That Give Life & Happiness Hardcover – September 25

"Best-selling author Mary Randolph Carter is back at it with a full-throated celebration of junk and thrifting. The Joy of Junk shows us how to live stylishly and creatively with the personally meaningful objects we love to collect for our homes."

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