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Article: Antique dolls touch the hearts of collectors.(Neighbor)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- December 21, 2004
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Byline: Elizabeth Harmon Daily Herald Correspondent
Growing up, Holly Scott had always loved dolls, but it was a box of water-damaged dolls brought to the office by an Abbott Laboratories co-worker nearly 30 years ago that changed her life.
"As I looked through the box I saw some very interesting little faces in there. I found out later that a couple of them, a Ginny doll and a Toni doll, were quite famous. But I didn't know that at the time. I just thought they were charming and I wanted to try and fix them," Scott recalls.
So she brought them home and went to work.
"I learned to reset eyes, repair their clothes and wigs and restring ...