Appraisals

I am located in Northern California near Modesto  CA.  I have contacts and have been appraising dolls in the Central Valley and San Francisco Bay area for many years.  Click the button below to show the locations where I sell dolls and do appraisal work. See interactive map

I appraise dolls or doll collections. For each doll I will provide a description of the doll with the history (who made it and when), The condition and an appraisal of its value.  For large collections I can come to your house to do the appraisal.

I have a long history as an appraiser, collector and buying and selling dolls and work to keep current on the prices and trends in the market. At present I am not a certified appraiser for insurance claims work.

I charge $30.00 an hour for appraisals.  For appraisals in your home this includes my time to drive to and from your location plus an additional $30.00 charge to cover gas.  Because I am a collector I am always looking for dolls to add to my collection.  If you have dolls that you want to part with and that I am interested in I can take them in place of part or all of the appraisal charge.

I am located in Northern California (near Modesto). If you just have a few items to appraise we can plan on meeting at one of the shops where I do repairs for the appraisal. In this case I do not charge for travel time.  See Shop Locations If the collection is large I can come to your home for the appraisal.  I am generally available in the California Central valley in the Modesto area.  I have on occasions made arrangements to go as far as Sacramento and the San Francisco bay area for some appraisals.

Please note that there a very few dolls (especially compositions dolls from the 30's) that cannot be absolutely identified.  Manufacturers sometime shared molds and did not mark the bodies.  For these dolls the only way to positively identify them is from tags on the original cloths.  For these dolls I can document the age and show the possible manufactures.  There are also a few early bisque dolls where even the experts are not sure who made them.