$600 Doll. Seriously.
Posted on February 27, 2007 by Christine | 4 Comments
Even better if you view her large. Photograph taken at an antique store off of 19th St. in the Houston Heights.
We had a Flickr meetup the other day, and when we were out on our photo hunt we found an antique shop on a side street. The shop owner led me to the antique dolls to take their photograph. I had already spotted them, and was glad he was ok with me taking pictures.
I started snapping photos. I took pictures from many different angles. I moved this doll off the shelf – carefully – as her legs were messing up the background in another shot.
It wasn’t until I pulled her down that I spotted the SIX HUNDRED DOLLAR price tag. $600. I might have gasped out loud.
Turns out it is a vintage Madame Alexander doll from the 1940s. Or that is what he said. Either way, $600 is a crazy, crazy price for a doll.
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February 27th, 2007 @ 7:36 pm
Especially a naked doll.
February 28th, 2007 @ 6:29 am
Maybe it’s a $10 doll, and the jaunty beret is actually worth $550.
February 28th, 2007 @ 10:40 am
I have a bunch of Madame Alexander dolls–they aren’t that old, but they’re supposedly valuable. At one point, my mom and I fought because I wanted to sell them. I doubt any are worth $600 though; I played with them alot.
February 28th, 2007 @ 11:37 pm
My mother has a doll that’s got to be about that much. It’s basically “life size” – about the size of a toddler and was an antique when SHE was a kid. The doll is either cool or creepy depending on how you look at it – it’s very “life like” and even has real human hair on it’s head. My mom said that when she used to push the doll in a stroller, people would think she was pushing a younger sibling.