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Article: COLLECTORS OF RARE PAPER DOLLS PURSUE PASSION AT A FAST CLIP.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- April 17, 1997
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Byline: Aline McKenzie Dallas Morning News
Before there was Barbie, there were paper dolls. A child with a steady cutting hand or a helpful adult could create an entire fantasy family for pennies.
Now, fueled by nostalgia and an interest in history, adult collectors have rediscovered the humble paper doll. They snap them up by the boxful at estate sales, trade photocopies for reference and catalog them in more than a dozen collectors' source books.
``The fun is in the hunt and the research,'' says Anne Street of Mesquite, Texas, a retired geology draftsperson, whose particular passion is dolls that were printed in Sunday comics.
Street ...