Even as an adult, she’s collected porcelain Barbie dolls in designer ball gowns and gone out with friends to celebrate National Barbie Day, which marks the anniversary of the doll’s debut.

With a dress representative of the real-life Marie’s extravagant fashion and a handful of dainty porcelain roses, this doll is among Barbie’s most luxurious variations with a present-day price ...

Pop into any antique store in the country and you’ll likely find at least one porcelain doll sitting on a shelf (probably next to the vintage figurines). But how much are these delicate dolls worth?

Some people have an interest in finding rare or valuable Barbie or American Girl dolls ... Some people mistake bisque for porcelain dolls, which makes finding actual bisque dolls at a second ...

such as her line of Cissy dolls which debuted in 1955, four years before Barbie, and using plastic rather than fragile porcelain in representing young women of their time. The dolls came with ...

Shannon Smith-Martin is 44 now. She hadn’t even asked for a Barbie. She remembers begging her mother for a porcelain doll because they looked like real babies. Charlene Smith was a stay-at ...