Barbie Doll Collector
Barbie Doll Collector
Collectible Barbie Dolls
Barbie is a best-selling fashion doll launched in 1959. The doll is produced by Mattel, Inc., and is a major source of revenue for the company. The American businesswoman Ruth Handler (1916-2002) is regarded as the creator of Barbie, and the doll’s design was inspired by a German doll called Bild Lilli.
Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for nearly fifty years, and has been the subject of numerous controversies and lawsuits, often involving parody of the doll and her lifestyle.
Collecting:
Mattel estimates that there are well over 100,000 avid Barbie collectors. Ninety percent are women, at an average age of 40, purchasing more than twenty Barbie dolls each year. Forty-five percent of them spend upwards of $1000 a year.
Vintage Barbie dolls from the early years are the most valuable at auction, and while the original Barbie was sold for $3.00 in 1959, a mint boxed Barbie from 1959 sold for $3552.50 on eBay in October 2004. On September 26, 2006, a Barbie doll set a world record at auction of £9,000 sterling (US $17,000) at Christie’s in London. The doll was a Barbie in Midnight Red from 1965 and was part of a private collection of 4,000 Barbie dolls being sold by two Dutch women, Ietje Raebel and her daughter Marina
In recent years Mattel has sold a wide range of Barbie dolls aimed specifically at collectors, including porcelain versions and depictions of Barbie as a range of characters from television series such as The Munsters and Star Trek There are also collector’s edition dolls depicting Barbie dolls with a range of different ethnic identities. In 2004 Mattel introduced the Color Tier system for its collector’s edition Barbie dolls, ranging through pink, silver, gold and platinum depending on how many of the dolls are produced.
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About the Author
Where can I find a website to look at galleries of collector barbie dolls?
I found a page once before but now I can’t locate it. I just want to see some galleries of the collector’s barbie dolls, not specifically the vintage ones, but ANY site that doesn’t have tiny pictures or is linked to ebay or amazon or anything like that.
You can go to www.barbiecollector.com and look at their “showcase” This will give you pretty much every collector’s edition doll ever made.
Some e-shops that will give you currently available collector’s Edition dolls are:
www.mfd.net
www.41vogue.com
If you need help identifying one, just message me.
National Barbie Doll Collectors Convention
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New Handmade Party Dress Barbie Clothes Gown For Barbie Doll 332 £1.05 |
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Vintage 1975 Pedigree Sindy Happy Days Dress & HTF Scarf With Shoes. NO DOLL £28.00 |
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Lots 5 Pcs Fashion Handmade Dresses & Clothes 10 Shoes For Barbie Doll -15 Items £5.99 |
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New Handmade Party Dress Clothes Gown For Barbie Doll 313 £0.99 |
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New Handmade Party Dress Clothes Gown For Barbie Doll 318 £0.99 |
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TUBULAR STEEL FURNITURE;EDT.BY BARBIE CAMPBELL-COLE&TIM BENTON £17.50 |
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BOAC air hostess uniform for Sindy type doll £23.00 |
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Barbie Princess & Prince Dolls £1.64 |
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Barbie Puppy Swim Pool Brand new In Box Free P&P £23.00 |
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New Handmade Party Dress Clothes Gown For Barbie Doll 266 £0.99 |
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BARBIE DOLLS Girls Clothes Summer Sun Bucket Hats Caps £9.99 |
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2006 Gold Label CAREER GIRL Vintage Repro Barbie £42.99 |
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BARBIE MINI BOOKS £1.99 |
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Purple Ballet Shoes fits for blythe barbie licca momoko £2.52 |
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Barbie Colour And Wash Salon Brand New In Box Free P&P £22.99 |
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BARBIE DOLL Girls Clothes Summer Sun Baseball Hat Cap £9.99 |
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Animal Print Travel Bag for 16″ Fashion Dolls £6.24 |
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New Fashion Princess Clothes Party Dress Evening Gown for Barbie Doll Gift 001xa £1.25 |
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Barbie: Fantastic Flowers,GOOD Book £3.69 |
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Barbie Fairytopia Magical Meadow Pop-Up,ACCEPTABLE Boo £2.80 |
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Barbie: Let’s be Friends (Barbie Daisy Chain Books),AC £2.80 |
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Barbie: Fantastic Flowers,ACCEPTABLE Book £3.69 |
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VINTAGE SINDY DOLL CLOTHES RED & YELLOW TRACK SUIT ALSO FIT BARBIE £4.99 |
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VINTAGE SINDY DOLL CLOTHES MULTI COLOURED SHIRT ALSO FIT BARBIE £3.99 |
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BARBIE & KEN FASHION CLOTHING £0.99 |
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Barbie Colouring Set £0.01 Set of 8 colouring sheets, 6 colouring pencils and 15 resuable stickers Age 3+… |
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Barbie ‘Pop Art’ Single Duvet £8.85 Barbie Duvet Cover Set – Single…. |
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Zap Barbie Mono Single Duvet £7.99 Loads more Barbie products at our store. Please click on logo for many more products. Fast shipping. Competitive prices. Great bedroom items…. |
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Disney Princess -Ultimate £3.03 … |
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Barbie In The 12 Dancing Princesses [DVD] £3.04 … |
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Barbie of Swan Lake [DVD] £3.55 … |
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Rumble in the Bronxs [VHS] [1997] £9.98 In Rumble in the Bronx Jackie Chan plays a visitor to America who agrees to fend off a biker gang’s designs on his uncle’s market in the Bronx. If you can get past the Vancouver skyline substituting for the New York City neighbourhood, and the cheesy dubbing job, this is another of Chan’s startling, balletic takes on martial arts action. (It’s also his first breakthrough American film.) Even if yo… |
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Barbie & The Rock Stars – Out of This World [1987] “Hi I’m Barbie. My group the Rock Stars, and I are taking off to ‘Out of this World’ in our very first video! Ken, Dana, Diva, Dee Dee, Derek and I are going where no group has gone before.. into outer space! Now our music is rocking the outer limits because we’ve launched into an adventure that’s totally ‘Out of This World’. So strap yourself in for action , because the countdown has just begun! … |
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Barbie – Rockin’ Back to Earth/Out of This World [VHS] £9.99 TWO EXCELLENT ADVENTURES………… |
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Barbie Wallpaper Border £28.00 Wallpaper Border (not self-adhesive) - Width 12 cm, length 17 m. - For a better and convenient stick, the border us cutted in 70cm pieces and used together. The pattern fits together exactly, infinitely expandable. The special, hard-wearing paper with elevated white clay has the strength of 120g / m². The vibrant colors make aware the perfect color scale…. |
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Round Metal Watch COKE Polar Bear Sunglasses Girls Boys (11386258) £11.99 |
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7.55 FEET Giant Plush Teddy Bear Doll Toy Gift DIYable £170.05 |
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Lilac Hearts mini & micro craft doll novelty buttons £1.59 |
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6MM LM6UU Linear Ball Slide Bearing Bush Bushing X10 £15.88 |
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Vintage Retro Ceramics – Rupert The Bear Mug – England – 1986 £4.25 |
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GUERNSEY SOUVENIR TRADITIONAL STYLE TEDDY NC58 £15.59 |
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New Genuine Charlie Bears – Arthur – Plush Collectors CollectableTeddy Bear £36.95 |
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New Genuine Charlie Bears – Puddifoot – Tyber Plush Limited EditionTeddy Bear £59.95 |
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Lilac Stars mini & micro craft doll novelty buttons £1.59 |
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Full Body Little Cute Bear Hard Back Cover Case Skin for Apple iPhone 4G 4S Pink £0.01 |
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‘I LOVE GUIDE DOGS’ SMALL SOFT TOY BEAR NC58 £15.59 |
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‘CLINT THE COWBOY’ FROM THE TEDDY BEAR COLLECTION NC58 £15.59 |
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‘BUCKLERS HARD’ TRADITIONAL STYLE TEDDY NC58 £15.59 |
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new Me To You My Blue Nose Friends Gift Party Bag Tatty Teddy G73B0014 £1.50 |
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Tiny Tatty Teddy Musical Me to You Bear Figurine Ideal new baby gift or xmas £17.50 |
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New 2012 Valentines / Mothers Day 7″ Me To You Tatty Teddy Bear With hand cream £11.30 |
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The Bestest Ever Bear, £2.73 |
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Vintage Retro Ceramics – Rupert The Bear Egg Cup – England – 1986 £2.25 |
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Round Metal Watch BLACK BEAR CUB Pet Animal Jungle Wild (11776389) £11.99 |
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Round Metal Watch BLACK BEAR CUB Animal Jungle Wild Pet (11776388) £11.99 |
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CHERISHED TEDDIE “CHRISSY AND FRIENDS-CHERISHED RETAILER LIMITED EDITION” 114124 £37.44 |
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NEW STEIFF My First TEDDY BEAR 2012 BABY SOFT Ideal New Born GIFT 664021 £23.00 |
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‘Lovely’ White Bear £0.99 |
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Round Metal Watch GRIZZLY BEAR Wild Animal Jungle Boys (11776513) £11.99 |
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Pink Hearts mini & micro craft doll novelty buttons £1.59 |
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Prince Lionheart Original Slumber Bear – Cream £19.97 Invented by a doctor, and effectively used in hospital nurseries for over 25 years! The Original Slumber Bear contains the ONLY actual intra-uterine, recorded womb sound to help lull your Baby to sleep in minutes! Sound and motion sensors re-activate recording when Baby cries or jostles bear. Additional hook and loop straps allow you to secure the removable audio box to crib rails, strollers and m… |
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Amscan Little Charlie Bear Tablecover £2.49 Little Charley bear plastic table cover… |
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Amscan Little Charlie Bear 6 X 9-inch Latex Balloons £1.49 Little Charley bear balloons 6 pack air fill only… |
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El Camino £6.94 … |
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Hands Up – The Album £7.99 … |
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The Best Of Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac £4.10 Fab remastered 20-track set of material from 1968 to 1971, plus Chris Coco and Peter Green’s 2002 reworking of “Albatross”…. |
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The Jungle Book (Disney) (1967) [VHS] [1968] £7.98 Disney’s 1967 animated feature seems even more entertaining now than it did upon first release, with a hall-of-fame vocal performance by Phil Harris as Baloo, the genial bear friend of feral child Mowgli. Based on fiction by Rudyard Kipling, the film goes its own way as Disney animation will, but the strong characters and smart casting (Louis Prima as “King Louie” of the Apes; George Sanders as th… |
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Children’s TV Favourites – NSPCC [VHS] £9.99 Great video featuring Postman Pat, Paddington Bear & many more, slight wear to the back of the paper insert, fast dispatch, UK SELLER… |
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Polar Bear Alert (National Geographic) [VHS] £1.79 … |
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Bear Grylls Survival Series Fire Starter £11.25 Bear Grylls Survival Series Fire Starter… |
