Apologizing for the horrible video I didn’t have time to re-do it. My German doll is authentic not a reproduction, worth approximately 75-$100 ~ but she’s worth much more to me! Her head is in pristine condition and lovely. I’m looking for a body for her so I can have her restrung, she has her original hair which will need to be fixed a bit. I will need to find her some original period clothes. Antique clothes make the doll much more valuable, some dolls I’ve had in the past had original gold jewelry from the era. Sometimes antique clothing and accessories can be worth as much as the doll. I might add I am not a doll expert. I don’t find these dolls scary or creepy, a young girl a hundred years ago carried this doll around played with her, treasured her, and it’s survived all these years! I wish she could talk and tell me where she’s been! I am very confident Armand Marseille dolls will be going up in value in the near future. I am not against Repurpose-Reuse-Recycle-Refinish-Restore or Assemblages of Retro Art but I am for preserving the past!! 🙂
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What is a Florodora Doll… Armand Marseille made the Florodora doll heads from 1901 through to the early 1920s The Armand Marseille 390 doll is sometimes called the “Florodora,” probably after the name of that famous chorus line from the turn-of-the-20th-century. “The Florodora Girls” . “Florodoras came in different shapes and sizes ranging from 10” to 42” tall. Earlier ones dating to early 20th century + had kid or cloth body, bisque shoulder head, wore wigs, had glass eyes and a slightly smiling mouth. Some even had fur eyebrows.” source… http://dollsfromtheattic.blogspot.com/2011/09/florodora-girls-pretty-maidens-all-in.html
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