Living With & Loving Your Doll

This section features some resources, advice and links relating to living and caring for your doll and for those looking forward to their first doll ownership. If you would like a particular topic covered here, please let me know your suggestions.

Obtaining a Annette Himstedt Doll

Annette Himstedt Dolls

Annette Himstedt dolls are some of the most sought after certified collectable dolls with real-life features in the world. This popularity mostly derives from the exquisite detail in the creation of a real life-like persona, body size and features of this doll - like having a real companion. Annette Himstedt sadly had to close her production facility in 2008 due to rising costs and reducing orders - inevitably from customers with less spending power in these times.

With production now closed and the continued interest in these dolls, has made obtaining one all the more difficult - but no impossible.

Some commercial suppliers may have a few in stock, but success is usually had from eBay sellers in the U.S. with this country being Annette Himstedt's biggest market for these real life dolls.

Browse the Annette Himstedt category from this site, or see the commercial stores bellow for obtaining Annette Himstedt dolls. Good luck.

Annette Himstedt Dolls Listed

Official Website

The Toy Shoppe


What's My Doll Worth?

With doll collectors classed as a dedicated enthusiasts, this sector is more likely to garner keen prices for dolls especially for Victorian era dolls and end-of-production models such as Annette Himstedt. Remember, no matter what price guides can tell you about your doll, actual doll values are subject to basic market needs and availability. The following guides linked below will help give you an general idea and outline of your dolls potential worth.

About.com - What Is The Value of a Doll?

About.com - Doll Price Guide


Doll Cleaning (new born)

Gorgeous as they are, the New-Born or Baby-Type dolls are often applied with a synthetic fragrance which is not to dissimilar to baby powder and bath oil. Some may find this smell artificial and even unpleasant.

New Born Doll

To clean this doll to reduce the odor, you need to only apply a lightly dampened cloth with lukewarm water - anything more and the vinyl could mark with brush and droplet marks which are harder to remove once dried. The dolls clothes will need washing too - hand-wash these using warm water (not hot) and a mild detergent. Leave to dry naturally by hanging the garments on a clothes hanger inside your home - a warm kitchen works good here.

This will help reduce or even eliminate the synthetic smell from your beautiful, and treasured new-born doll.


Doll Auction Abbreviations

Common doll abbreviations and terminology used on auction sites and within the doll collector/manufacturing world.

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