Golden Era Dolls - Vintage Doll Collecting

Hi & welcome to my home on the web. I bet your first question is:
Just what exactly ARE Golden Era Dolls?

Quite simply, "Golden Era Dolls" is my term for the wonderful dolls manufactured during the 1930s, 40s, 50s & 60s - the "golden era" of dolls. While there were literally thousands of companies producing dolls during this time period. Some of the more widely known companies of this period were :

Arranbee (R & B)
American Character
Effanbee (F & B)
Terri Lee
Ideal
Mattel
Madame Alexander
Vogue

Dolls manufactured by these companies (as well as many others) are highly collectible today. This site, hopes to bring collectors of these "modern" dolls a bit of insight & information about their manufacture, tips on collecting & care and a place to come together & do what we do best - "play" dolls.

My hope is to make this site a sort of "Who? What? Why? Where? and When?" for vintage doll collectors.

As some of you may know, I have a neuromuscular disease. I have spent nearly the last 2 years working on getting my right arm & hand to work the way they are supposed to (as apposed to laying there like a dead lump)

. The good news is that it is finally starting to work again & the pain is pretty much under control. The GREAT news is I FINALLY get to work on this web site.

Thanks so much for hanging in there with me & also for all of the prayers & well wishes.

As I write this - it is September 27th, 2003. Let's see what I can get done here over the next few months with one & a half arms.

You'll find the Site Map very helpful to find things you'd never even guess where here. I am just now under construction so some of the links may not have much info right now. But, check back often & see how I progress

Some of the photo galleries are now up & running!

Ruthy