My Doll Collection

I got a new photo editing program and thought i'd photograph some of my favourite dolls from my collection, although I feel bad having favourites! I have hundreds, but here is an overveiw.

I've been collecting since I was a child, I started off with a rag doll my grandmother had made for my mother when she was a child, and I just wanted more. Above is the Ragdoll by my Grandmother, along with Mr Beast made by my Great Aunt Beryl and sent to me when she learnt of my interest in dolls.

Taxidermy child

I found something wonderful in Herefords antique street market, its such a beautiful fabric doll, presented in a box kind of like vintage taxidermy, with feathers and fabric backgrounds and a stool for her to sit on, she was made by the sellers grandfather, who made loads of them and the seller inherited them when he died and has been selling them, this one was the most beauiful on the stall, the others were smaller and used paper cutouts! Very 'folk art' shes hard to photograph, with the glass front! But heres my attempts, so happy with her


and with flash, crappy, but shows more detail