I have 2 porcelain Connoisseur Collection dolls by Seymour Mann. They are black Raggedy Ann and Andy. Everything is original and still in the box. I also have the certificate of authenticity. I have had these 2 dolls around 10 to 15 years. I had purchased them back in the late 80s. I am hoping to find out their value. The style numbers are:
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These are mass-produced dolls and are worth at most $25
Hello Judy I'm sorry that i really find it hard to believe that 2 rare certificate authentic Seymourmann collection RAGGEDY & Andy dolls is olny worth $25.00.. Like i said in my article they both are over 15 yrs old never have i took them out the box..
Betheacarolny, Hello I would like to know if you are selling both the boy and girl SJ2412 -a and B. My mom had some like this and when the got dementia someone in the family stole them and i would like to replace her babies.
These are cute! I don't see them often!!
Double check me that these are an EXACT match to yours:
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These two sold together for 48.00 + 22.08 for shipping in a recent eBay auction. (ONLY USE SOLD AUCTIONS TO DETERMINE CURRENT MARKET VALUE--people can ask anything, but value is only what someone will pay).
If yours are an exact match, even though they were mass produced in the 1980s, this set does not come up quite as often as the others.
If I were going to sell, I would check to see if there are any current auctions for the exact set and see what they are starting at...and if way less than this last value, I would hold off until there are no others and then list it at the $48.00 value.
Remember to package these EXTRA carefully so they get there intact and make sure if you aren't sending priority mail which includes insurance up to $50, that you purchase USPS insurance and set it up so the buyer pays for that in their shipping price.
I have been having bad luck with selling breakables lately as the post office has smushed and obliterated 3 of my items in recent months!
are you selling on ebay? Do you get some insurance or is there a possibility of purchasing insurance? I'm thinking of selling some fragile/expensive stuff on ebaybut i DO Not WANt that experience without some sort of guarantee
I know the post office offers insurance but the process of claiming the item seems excessive to me.
Hi Jean Genie, Yes, I have been dabbling in eBay sales since 2001. I usually try to sell non breakables...but I have sold some of our deceased relatives breakables...glass and such. Have had some things smushed.
Sadly I have even had some non breakables get damaged, including a book that was literally bent in half when it got to the new owner. That all said...
For breakables, I always ship priority which comes with $50 insurance. If you have something very fragile, my suggestions are to:
-- take pix of your item as you package it, of the box when sealed, including address.
--mark the box fragile on all sides
--click yes when your postal person asks if it is fragile (ours is a click on a computer screen).
--put all the information into eBay including uploading tracking number for buyer
--you can track it as it goes along and the day the person gets it, message them ASAP to find out if it is OK
--if it gets to the person broken, then you will need the person who bought it to take pictures of the smushed item, box, packing materials.
--everything gets submitted (I do up a PowerPoint document copying and pasting their pictures and my pictures) saved as a PDF and uploaded to the USPS site to file a claim.
You can do screen shots of the eBay ad to show them the sold price and shipping price--you should be refunded everything.
It takes several weeks for them to process. I have had to do this process so many times for, I could do it in my sleep! Good luck!!
These are cute and in very good (new) condition so they may sell quicker than some Seymour Mann dolls.
Judy is correct in that these dolls are mass produced but it is possible that black models in the 80's had a lower production figure but she is still correct in that your dolls are probably worth about $25 each.
so I found this nifty resource for what I take to be mass produced 80s' vintage 'collectible' dolls secure.ttreasures.com/
I don't see your precise dolls on there but the Seymour Mann ones seem valued ranging from $30 to $80
ebay Connoisseur Collection dolls by Seymour Mann (once again, I don't see your exact one) are about the same with a wider range $10 - $80
so you can hypothesize a median value at $40 per. Would you get that for them? Hard to say. They are unusual in that they are not the dime-a-dozen blonde princess dolls that the market is so glutted with in an already glutted and absurd 'collectible' doll market, so maybe.
the fact is, for sound economic reasons, the 'collectible' doll market is deplorable. And I don't see that changing in the near future. The market is saturated with them and the demand is just not there. This professional doll site has this to say about it: "Modern porcelain collector dolls sold from about the 1980s to present, were meant to appeal to adult doll collectors, not children. The theory was; buy it, keep it in the box or debox, but keep it unplayed with, after some time passes, you'll be able to sell it for more money than your original purchase and make a profit. Dolls were easily found in department stores, grocery store toy aisles, card shops, toy stores and on TV from QVC etc. The quantities sold of each collector doll could be large, it's the sheer quantity of all available porcelain collector dolls today, that is determining the current value, as they flood the market place, online and elsewhere..... Sad to say, but these dolls are now available in such large quantities they have little to no value today." dollreference.com/
if I had a pretty doll in a nice case I valued I would just sit on it for decades and decades becuase who knows what will happen in the future? But this is not the time to valuate or speculate in dolls
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