Doll Types and Materials
Browse bisque, composition, cloth, wood, wax, plastic, vinyl, fashion, baby, miniature, artist, and cultural dolls.
Bisque Dolls
Unglazed porcelain heads and bodies, painted features, mold numbers, wigs, eyes, and hairlines.
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China Head Dolls
Glazed porcelain heads, shoulder plates, hairstyles, cloth bodies, and reproduction clues.
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Composition Dolls
Pressed sawdust-and-glue bodies, crazing, lifting paint, repairs, and maker marks.
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Cloth and Rag Dolls
Printed, painted, embroidered, handmade, factory-made, tagged, and regionally distinctive dolls.
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Wooden Dolls
Carved, turned, peg-jointed, Schoenhut, Grodnertal, folk, and artist-made examples.
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Wax Dolls
Poured and wax-over dolls, inserted hair, fragile surfaces, heat damage, and restoration.
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Papier-Mâché Dolls
Early molded heads, shoulder plates, paint surfaces, cracking, and replaced bodies.
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Hard Plastic Dolls
Mid-century molded dolls, sleep eyes, walkers, wigs, markings, and plastic stability.
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Vinyl Dolls
Fashion and baby dolls, face molds, rooted hair, discoloration, tackiness, and odors.
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Celluloid Dolls
Lightweight early plastic dolls, seams, marks, dents, flammability, and conservation risks.
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Paper Dolls
Cut figures, clothing sets, advertising issues, books, uncut sheets, and condition.
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Fashion Dolls
Barbie-scale and larger fashion dolls, face sculpts, bodies, outfits, accessories, and boxes.
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Baby Dolls
Character babies, bent-limb bodies, drink-and-wet mechanisms, makers, and clothing.
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Character Dolls
Celebrity, comic, film, political, literary, and advertising characters.
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Dollhouse Dolls and Miniatures
Scale, material, maker, articulation, original clothing, and household context.
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Artist Dolls
Limited editions, signatures, certificates, sculptors, materials, and secondary-market demand.
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Porcelain Collector Dolls
Late twentieth-century decorative dolls, edition claims, boxes, certificates, and realistic value.
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Cultural and Community-Made Dolls
Maker, community, materials, provenance, respectful description, and institutional context.
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Mechanical and Walking Dolls
Wind-up, walker, talking, crying, and other mechanisms with condition and repair concerns.
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Miniature Dolls
Dolls under six inches, all-bisque forms, dollhouse use, regional makers, and accessories.
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Male Dolls
Ken, action-oriented fashion dolls, antique boy dolls, character figures, clothing, and marks.
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Black Dolls
Commercial and handmade dolls, representation, maker history, clothing, provenance, and respectful research.
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