A total of 140 million yen, an antique doll collection filling the house

From the end of the nineteenth century it became popular in European aristocracy, mainly in France and Germany, it was also produced in JapanBisque / dollThe doll called "doll" is now also called an antique doll, and it is known that items with scarcity value are traded in units of 1 million yen. Although there are many people who hobby such antique doll collection, Kathy Libraty's collection seems to exceed the total amount of 140 million yen.

Well, hello dollies! Astonishing collection worth a whopping £ 1.23 m fills house | Mail Online

Mr. Kathy surrounded by the collection (upper left in the center of the photo) and Ms. Elisa (upper right in the center of the photo). This seems to be only a part.


The collection that Kathy spent 25 years has exceeded 1000 bodies, and the old one includes dolls made over 170 years ago. There seems to be some in the 1880s doll that it was used as a hiding stone for smuggling drugs.


One of Kathy's favorite dolls, a doll made in China in the late 19th century.


Antique doll made in Germany around 1900.


Bisque dolls made between 1895 and 1910 in the German workshop "Kestner" are particularly expensive, each of which is worth about 600 to 750 euros (about 69,000 to 86,000 yen) And that.


While collecting dolls, too many numbers have increased, so a newly purchased mansion. Kathy buys a doll owned by an individual at an auction and repairs it, and when clothes and wigs are different from the original one, it is sorted in the correct combination against the old catalog and saved is. It seems that many collecting enthusiastic collectors are visiting this house because it sells part of the collection if there is a desired collector.


Although it is enough to fill the house, it is an amazing collection that the doll worth 140 million yen. Will it be 150 years later that animated figures are traded at high prices as antiques?