The Bottom Line
A great identification and price guide with lots of color pictures. A must have for both beginning collectors and long-time collectors.
Pros
- Lots of pictures to aid identification
- Illustrations of marks
- Charts for assessing how condition can affect the price of a doll
Cons
- None
Description
- Makers range from big name manufacturers such as Madame Alexander, EffanBee, Ashton-Drake Galleries to printed cloth dolls.
- Charts for assessing how condition can affect the price of a doll.
- Loads of full color pictures n the 352 page soft cover book.
Guide Review - Jan Foulke's Guide to Dolls: A Definitive Identification and Price Guide
This book is intended to help identify, learn more about and appraise dolls you may already own. It can also guide you when adding to your collection. The book is divided into two sections: Antique and Vintage Dolls and Modern and Collectible Dolls.
This is not Foulke's intial entry into the world of publishing, she has authored sixteen Blue Book of Dolls and Values guides.
The sections are arranged alphabetically by manufacturer. The book has an extensive index of doll names and manufacturers and a mold number index.
The book suggests a range of prices to pay for thousands of dolls. The suggested retail prices were gathered from antique shops and shows, auctions, internet sales, doll shops and shows, dealer web sites, advertisements in collector periodicals, lists from doll dealers, purchases and sales reported by both dealers and collectors.
The book also has sections on collecting dolls, selling dolls, as well as buying and selling at auctions.
