Barbie Doll Collection – Guidelines
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Holiday™ Barbie® Doll Sale Price: $26.99 Average Rating:   |
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The 2008 Holiday Barbie shimmers in a silvery creation designed to resemble a snowflake. Her chandelier earrings add the perfect elegant yet festive touch to the 20th anniversary Holiday Barbie. Barbie collectors and girls ages 6 and up alike will appreciate the beauty of this doll, with her thick lashes, painted red lips, extravagantly curled blonde hair, and a stand so she can be displayed and admired by all... |
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Barbie Twilight Bella Doll Sale Price: $23.45 Average Rating: |
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She's a vampire's girl. This Pink Label Barbie Doll presents Bella Swan, an 11 1/2-inch tall doll inspired by the blockbuster movie Twilight. Bella is all dressed up to meet her beau, come what may. Add her and the Edward Cullen Barbie Doll to your collection! Edward Cullen Doll sold separately... |
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Barbie Doll & Denim Fashion Set Sale Price: $12.31 Average Rating: |
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Girls and Barbie doll love beautiful boutique fashions to mix and match, head to toe, for oh so many occasions! Outfits include: Denim dress accented with a pink ribbon around the waist, sleeveless plaid designed top with matching jeans, short sleeve top decorated with flower prints with a matching pink skirt... |
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Barbie Camping Family Stacie & Kelly Dolls Sale Price: $14.35 Average Rating: |
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Barbie Camping family Stacie and Kelly Dolls By Mattel. Family and friends love to join Barbie on camping adventure and bring their favorite outdoor hobbies and activities! Collect Barbie, Kelly, Skipper and Ken dolls, each include a favorite camping accessory and individual fashion and style... |
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Barbie In a Mermaid Tale Merliah Doll Sale Price: $12.50 Average Rating:  |
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BARBIE® IN A MERMAID TALETM MERLIAHTM Doll From the movie, Barbie in A Mermaid TaleTM, MerliahTM has a beautiful and unique transformation. She is a cool teenager from Malibu, but when you pull her hood down-surprise-she is secretly a mermaid! Just detach from velcro and pull down for transformation... |
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Barbie Collector Mad Men Collection Don Draper Doll Sale Price: $74.99 |
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AMC's acclaimed series Mad Men looks at the world of advertising in the 1960s - the men of Madison Avenue who create the ad campaigns that will shape society, the lives they lead, and the lives they touch... |
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Barbie Twilight Edward Doll Sale Price: $14.99 Average Rating: |
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Part of the Pink Labels Collection, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight tells the tale of teenage romance between mortal Bella Swan, and the intriguing and dazzlingly beautiful vampire, Edward Cullen. The #1 New York Times Best seller and hugely popular movie has left its mark! |
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Barbie Twilight New Moon Jacob Doll Sale Price: $18.99 Average Rating: |
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Based on the best-selling book series by Stephenie Meyer! The phenomenon continues with this stunning doll, created in the image of Taylor Lautner, who portrays the handsome and protective werewolf Jacob Black... |
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Barbie Glam Vacation House Sale Price: $33.50 Average Rating: |
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BARBIE® Glam Vacation House: Barbie® doll's fabulously glam vacation house is the ultimate in pinktastic play! Features 2 stories and 6 areas of glam-o-rama play including living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, patio, and breakfast bar... |
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Barbie Fashionistas Glam Doll Sale Price: $10.99 Average Rating: |
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Which FashionistasTM friend are you? Each doll in this collection has a slightly different style, but they're all poseable and super chic! Create more than 100 poses for each one! The Cute doll is totally trendy in a colorful miniskirt, shiny blue boots, and a playful purse... |
Barbie Doll Collection Guidelines
Here I wish to give an explicit list of instructions to collect Barbie dolls and a note on changing trends.
1. Look for no damage: Check the Barbie Doll you collect thoroughly, for any breaks or scratches since the defected dolls are less valued.
2. NRFB dolls are worthy: The Barbie Doll in â??never removed from the boxâ?? condition is more valuable than the one removed from pack.
3. Insist on original: A restored or an altered Barbie may be appealing but it is no good for collector, in terms of value.
4. Time of the make: The date you usually find on the abdomen of a doll is the designed date of mold but not the date it was made.
5. Distinct ones get more: The rarity of Barbie Dolls always counts. Dolls which are produced less than 35,000 as Limited editions are valued more than the Collector editions that are released more than 35,000 in number.
6. Attire: Doll with original getup and accessories are worthier than the Barbie Dollâ??s outfit when it is sold.
7. Update with latest price list: Buy a book that gives existing values for Barbie Doll. Assess your collectible Dollâ??s value by finding the same doll in list and an average of prices shown in such lists tells you the actual value.
8. Compare: Doll-shows at your place, auctions, local stores and online shops help you to compare the doll you are looking for with that of others.
9. How you evaluate is important: A Barbie Doll finds place in your collection only when it attracts you. In that way, your emotional attachment with that doll outdoes the market value and it becomes so precious for you!
10. Thatâ??s like a good doll: Good dolls never look weird as dumb or too trendy. You can pay more for collector picks and classics.
First is The Best
I received my first Barbie Doll on my fifth birthday in 1960. Like any other girl, I love the first doll of the collection. At that time Barbie was just one year or so and her first design was with strapless black and white zebra lines swimsuit and brown colored short hair.
Houseful of Dolls
It didnâ??t take much time to find plenty of Barbie Dolls within our collection. We, three little sisters collected dolls with every outfit and possible haircut. Our room used to be filled with sunglasses, earrings and plastic mules. Headless bodies of dolls in the garden and floating heads in the toilets had become common as the collection amassed.
We would have made much fortune if such large collection of 1960s was well taken care of.
Barbieâ??s Allies in 1960s
Barbie used to have apparently less number of friends, clothes, careers or vehicles in 60s. Assorted things and friends of Barbie was a big fascination for most girls.
Ken Carson, Barbieâ??s beau who was another important doll of my collection but I took less care to dress him up since he wore very casual clothes all the time including formal occasions accompanying Barbie.
Midge, the red haired friend of Barbie came later. However, Mattel was smart enough to design Midgeâ??s clothes so specially that Barbieâ??s clothes never fit the blonde.
Barbie got a sister called Skipper and we had one Skipper doll at least.
Time for Multicultural Barbies
I was told about Caucasian dolls by couple of my African-American friends of our group while talking about toys and dolls we had. Including Mattel, the maker of Barbie couldnâ??t catch up the trend in time.
Old is Gold
If I were to buy, I would prefer to go for number of Barbies that look so chic and distinguished made in the years between 1959 and 1965.
As far as â??the best collectionâ?? of Barbie is concerned I recommend to spend on originals and first of the series and avoid indifferent qualities of latest ones.
Gift a lookalike Barbie
Barbie is a perfect gift when you present it dressed in a similar way of little girl whose birthday or other occasion is on. Then the girl likes to keep her Barbie clean, new and carefully dressed as she does for herself.
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