I have these dolls. I can't find any markings on them. The one in the white dress has a wind up music box in her.
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These are all mass-produced dolls worth $25 or less.
These all look like 1980s-1990s porcelain dolls that were designed to be collectible shelf sitters.
You said there are no markings--just wanted to verify you checked the nape of the neck, on the feet, butt or the small of the back. If you found markings in one of these places I could give you much more specific values.
I can tell you that generally, unmarked dolls (especially the musical ones like yours) were often kit dolls, where moms, aunties, grannies and other crafty souls painted and dressed dolls are craft classes. The music box was often custom to the maker's favorite tune. Do you know what tunes they play?
Also generally and very sadly, with or without markings, the market for dolls is very, very soft at the moment and the values are all over the places...from 99 cents to less than $25, even for musical gals, which used to be highly valuable.
Most dolls are sitting unsold on eBay, Etsy and other sites for months and months.
Part of the problem is the glut of dolls and the other part is that the USPS changed the shipping prices with dimensional mailing so shipping these dolls in a box big enough to protect them now often costs more than the value of the doll itself.
If these were mine, I would list them at $20 each and take best offer in a local site. Don't be surprised if best offer is under $5.
I so wish I had better news for you! It makes me sad how low the values have gone from when these lovelies were new.
My mother has a very large collections of these types of dolls that sit in a glass cabinet in her room. They were given to her as gifts when she belonged to some sort of a lodge. These types of dolls make great gifts for people but hold little to no value what so ever. People are flooding the market with these types of dolls and trying to sell them off right now. I have seen people asking between $5 to $25 to get rid of them.
On Ebay this doll and others by this maker is going for/asking $25!
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