Doll Reference a trusted resource to identify Dolls

Collecting dolls on the secondary market is a fun hobby and the hunt for treasures is part of the fun and challenge! You can not go to a store and find these dolls fresh from the factory, neatly lined on shelves in original boxes, original clothes etc. These dolls are antique to vintage, previously bought and likely played with. You’ll have to do a little detective work to identify a doll – if you want to buy, sell or find it’s worth or value – You need to know what or who that doll is.

Start by checking for markings or labels on the back of the dolls neck, dolls back or on a cloth doll the bottoms of feet. If you find a mark, brand name or mold number – type That into our search box, click the button. You’ll find all our pages without an AI agent suggesting you visit another e-commerce website that could contain information you may not trust to be accurate.

Dolls are classified by the material of the doll head and that also helps date the doll. Some dolls are unmarked and are Look a Like or Clone dolls of other doll brands Baby / Mama, Patsy, Playpal, Shirley Temple . . . and sometimes the doll brand itself becomes a Doll Category Barbie. Our navigation menu has a list of all dolls by Type.

First find out Who the doll is? next question; How much is that doll worth, it’s value? Use the Find Values button link, problem solved. That’s how the professionals find current values for free and You can too.

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Some dolls by material links: Antique Bisque, Celluloid, China head, Cloth, Composition, Plastic, modern Porcelain.

Some major Doll brands: German; Gebruder Heubach, JDK Kestner, Armand Marseille, Kammer & Reinhardt, Simon & Halbig and French; Jumeau, SFBJ. American; Alexander, American Character, Averill Hendren, Eegee, Effanbee, Horsman, Ideal, Nancy Ann, Reliable, Uneeda, Vogue.

You can not buy any of the dolls shown and reference here, they were All For Sale at one time and sold, here is where we got most of our photos (not an affiliate link a courtesy to you) buy Dolls on ebay, many dolls were accurately described by sellers, others were not.