If one of your hobbies is doing detective work to scout out the most-wanted items at estate sales and thrift stores, you know the excitement of the thrill of the hunt. Finding a highly valuable ...

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 ...

I've always been fascinated by vintage dolls, but it wasn't until I looked into their value that I realized some of them ...

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 ...