By Robert Reed  Starting with George Washington and later with Abraham Lincoln, the memorabilia of presidents has provided a significant source of collecting. It doesn’t hurt either that President’s Day honoring them all is an annual holiday.  For the traditionalists it should be noted that the federal Office of Personnel Management still calls the third Monday in  February simply Washington’s […]

By Robert Reed  In the 1950s, some of the greatest American doll manufacturers were ready to make their best even better. Madam Alexander, American Character Doll Company, Effanbee, E.I. Horsman, Ideal, Vogue, and many others would turn the 50s into virtually a golden age of dolls for little girls.  Right from the beginning small, life-like baby dolls were-to pardon a […]