12 Reasons People Collect Dolls
Collectors gather all sorts of things for entertainment--coins, stamps, dolls, toys. Today, however, our culture is very different, and many people have trouble understanding collections and those who collect. This article will put forth several reasons why people might collect dolls.
Many people collect dolls that are antiques. Dolls are some of the most beautiful antiques that are available to antique collectors today, with dates of manufacture ranging from about 1800 through the early 1900s. They are also very accessible antiques--they can be collected with a minimum amount of room, unlike antique furniture. They tug at the heartstrings more than, say, antique books or antique tools. Many antique dolls as old as the mid-1800s, such as china dolls, can be collected quite inexpensively. Dolls also fit in beautifully with collections of antique toys, trains, Christmas, 19th-century paper ephemera, and sewing items.
