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A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
