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And so the doll collection photographs draw to a close. Many of them have already been shipped. The most fragile ones are still here, mainly because the weather has been really terrible and I don’t want to ship those very old composition dolls in heavy rain.

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  1. robertawrites235681907
    09/14/2023 • 13:00

    The dolls are all exquisite.

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      09/14/2023 • 14:12

      Thank you. It was like going — one doll at a time — through 20 years of collecting and remembering. I’ve come to the end of the pictures, though not to the end of the shipping and wrapping, nor have I finished setting up the pictures for printing. We have now shipped nine crates — seven received, two in the system. It’s a lot of dolls, but there are more dolls still to be packed and sent. I will miss them but I’m happy they are going to such a great home.

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  2. Eunice Miller
    09/14/2023 • 07:08

    I too am thinking of selling my very old girls.

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      09/14/2023 • 14:17

      It’s not easy to sell them and more important, it’s hard to find places where you figure they will not become someone’s old junk. This was a remarkably lucky discovery. I was so very worried that all the stuff I’ve collected — not just dolls but also the antique pottery, fetishes and more — would wind up in a dumpster. At least this largest piece is cared for. The rest will have to wait until I recover from this. I forgot how many dolls I had.

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  3. Sadje
    09/14/2023 • 01:27

    Oh you had such a huge variety of dolls. You must be feeling lighter now that most of them are gone.

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      09/14/2023 • 14:21

      I feel relieved that I don’t have to worry about them anymore. At some point, the valuable things we collect become a burden. It’s less a matter of value and more an issue of protecting the irreplaceable items. I have a collection of antique Chinese porcelain. None of it is “museum” quality — I could never afford that. But it is very old — some of it extremely old as in thousands of years. It’s not a huge collection — not nearly as big as the dolls, but it’s big enough and very old porcelain is fragile.

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      • Sadje
        09/14/2023 • 18:05

        Oh yes I remember reading about them in your posts. I agree that some things become a burden with time. And if there is no one willing to look after a valuable artifact, what to do about them?

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