GUEST: This was a doll that was my grandmother's. I think it may have belonged to my great-grandmother. I'm not sure. My mother passed it on to me about ten years ago. Most of my family came from Germany. I'm assuming it's a German doll.
APPRAISER: Well, your doll is an American doll.
GUEST: Oh, really?
APPRAISER: Yes.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: And she was made by a company called Horsman.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: And they made these wonderful composition dolls, and we call them Mama Dolls, because if we were to turn her sideways or forwards, she'll make a little crying noise. She’s got a little crier in her belly.
GUEST: Oh.
APPRAISER: And her name is Rosebud. She's got a composition head, and composition limbs, and a soft cloth body. She has sleep eyes and a mohair wig and her original costume. And her original all-cloth shoes. She's a classic 1930s doll, with the big dimples.
GUEST: Well, '30 was the year my mother was born.
APPRAISER: Right.
GUEST: So this might have, must have been bought for my mom.
APPRAISER: I never say mint, and this doll is mint.
GUEST: Really?
APPRAISER: She is pristine. She is like the day your mother got her, or your grandmother. Her clothing has faded a little bit, it would have been blue and pink, and now it's this wonderful lilac. Which is, I think it's even better.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: And that's nothing you've done wrong, that's just the nature of rayon. Composition dolls are notorious for having crazing and cracking.
GUEST: Uh-huh.
APPRAISER: Lifting paint. She's just absolutely perfect.
GUEST: Oh.
APPRAISER: Normally, these dolls do not have a very high value. I have never seen one this pristine. So I'm going to make her have a little bit higher value than normal. And I would say that her retail value would be somewhere between $300 and $450.
GUEST: Okay. Thank you so much.
