Collect Barbie Dolls–make Money With Your Hobby
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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 will be 50 years old in 2009. Wow I wish we all looked that good at 50. Of course she has had plastic surgery over the decades. She has even had a complete body replacement.
Barbie was first made in 1959 by Mattel and millions have been sold all over the globe since then. Barbies official birthday is March 9th 1959 which is when she was shown at the New York toy Fair. She wore a one piece black and white zebra striped swimsuit,high heel open toe shoes,hoop earrings and had white sunglasses with blue lenses. She has blonde or brunette hair pulled back in a ponytail and she has strongly arched eyebrows and white irises. She was made from a type of plastic which has faded to white over the years. She has copper tubing in her legs and holes in the feet for mounting on a pedestal. She is marked JAPAN on the bottom of the right foot and on the body she is marked Barbie TM Pats. Pend. Copyright MCMVIII.
If you find one of these dolls in good condition you have a collectors delight which is worth quite a bit of money. The exact value depends on the condition and completeness of the doll. Any missing parts or damage will lower the value substantially. This doll is known as the #1 Ponytail Barbie.
The #2 Ponytail Barbie is the same as #1 except that there is no copper tubing in the legs or holes in the feet. The pedestal was changed and made with extensions to support the doll.
The #3 Ponytail Barbie is the same as #2 but has different eyebrows and blue irises. She may have blue or brown eyeliner makeup.
The #4 Ponytail Barbie is made from a non fading plastic which retains it's flesh color. She has blue eyeliner makeup.
The #5 Ponytail Barbie had a new hollow plastic body. The earlier dolls were made from solid plastic. The markings are similar with the difference that she is marked R Pats. Pend. rather than TM Pats. Pend. A new hair color was added to the line,known as titian,and dolls with this hair color are scarcer and therefore worth more than the brunette or blonde dolls. Some of these dolls had a problem in the plastic which developed a greasy look with age. If you find a matte faced doll it is worth more than a greasy faced specimen,.
The #6 Ponytail Barbie was made from a new vinyl which does not develop a greasy appearance as it ages. Her lips and fingernails are a pinkish red rather than the previous bright red. She is clad in a red swimsuit and has open toe,red,shoes.
The #7 Ponytail Barbie was made in various different hair colors including brunette, titian,lemon blonde and ash blonde. Nails and lips on this doll are coral red in color. This new edition was brought out in the 1962-1963 period and the markings became Midge TM copyright 1962/Barbie copyright 1958 by Mattel. Dolls with this new marking are often called the #7 Ponytail Barbie but many people still call them #6. Dolls made before the changeover in 1962 are scarcer and more valuable than the new edition.
Condition is undoubtedly the most important factor in putting a value on early Barbie dolls. Collectors want a doll which is clean,completely original and not damaged.Such a doll fetches top price. If the doll is in its original packaging,and in mint condition,it is a highly desirable collectors doll and will fetch a premium price. Dolls which have in any way been repaired,restored or repainted are worth less than those left in the faded original condition.
Where can you expect to find early collectible Barbie dolls? The answer is almost anywhere,if you know what you are looking for. The great majority of the general public have no knowledge of old Barbie dolls,or the fact that they are valuable. You can find old Barbie dolls sometimes by looking in thrift or second hand stores,fleamarkets and garage sales. Be sure to carry a magnifier to read the markings on the Barbie dolls when you are out there searching. Best of Luck.
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