Antique Doll Collector Magazine: Vintage AKA Antique Dolls About to Happen!

Antique Doll Collector Magazine: Vintage AKA Antique Dolls About to Happen!: Soon, antique dolls of all types will be closer than you think! Collectible and vintage dolls from the 1930s and 1940s are approaching the ...

Antique Doll Collector Magazine: Vintage AKA Antique Dolls About to Happen!

Antique Doll Collector Magazine: Vintage AKA Antique Dolls About to Happen!: Soon, antique dolls of all types will be closer than you think! Collectible and vintage dolls from the 1930s and 1940s are approaching the ...

Antique Doll Collector Magazine: Welcome to our First Post- For the Love of Antique...

Antique Doll Collector Magazine: Welcome to our First Post- For the Love of Antique...: Welcome to the new blog for Antique Doll Collector Magazine ! Look for us on Twitter, Facebook, and soon on YouTube and other social media...

September 11, 2013

Once again, we are forced to remember a grim holiday no one wanted, and yet, how can we forget? As I played bridge prisoner today and navigated a screw up that makes Gov. Chris Christie's issue in New Jersey seen like an amuseument park ride, I couldn't help but thin that I was going to work, like the nearly 3000 people massacred that day. Only going to work. Such a simple, innane act that became deadly. I can't bear to think of those people in the planes, clutching their purses, and carryon bags, and boarding passes. Thinking about making connections, planning the rest of the day, not realizing their were boarding flights into eternity. I show my classes images of that day, where we all sat 13 years ago studying Faust and Moby Dick, with no idea of what would happen. It is now 22 mins. after the first plane hit the world trade center. The eeriness of the silent skies that day still deafens me, when no planes where flying, the first time in my life I can remember something like that. They had been grounded after the attacks, and only Airforce I could fly over head. I saw fighter jets on news footage escorting innocent planes and their pilots to our local airports. Chilling, to say the least. I think of the woman who used to work across the street who was there that day, and of my colleauges who sat next to me on 9/11/2001 trembling because they had family at The World Trade Center and at The Pentagon. Thankfully, they were found safe. But, the 27 year old brother of one of my colleauges was not safe; he was killed in one of the Twin Towers. The people my cousing was talking to at Cantor Fitzgerald simply disappeare; the line went dead, and they all belonged to the ages after that. He still can't forget it; one second he was talking to someone, and in an instant, they were gone. Our headquarters are a block away from Ground Zero; people were frantically trying to exchange calls, some that said "are you ok?" and finally, the ones that said, "we're fine, devastated, but we are fine." How can we forget? Or blame ourselves for an act that was so evil and cruel? With Bengazi to add to the legacy of pain, how can we not live in fear? Yet, here we are at our jobs. Email works, the phones are ringing. Stores are open, people are travelling. May we all get through this day, and may it only be a terrible, tragic memory in the future. God Bless all of us, and God Bless The United States.

Theriault's, Antique Doll Collector, and Thinking Outisde the Doll House

Soon, I hope to create another Facebook page dealing with my book on metal dolls, "With Love from Tin Lizzie . . " and my other books. For many of us, social media is the new wave in collecting, both for finding dolls, and for sharing information. More and more magazines are going online and publishing entire articles. eBay and other online auctions have their own articles and mags, and some also feature picture boards similar to Pinterest. Some interesing events are coming up: Rendezvous: Monday Night at the Auctions by Theriault's (86) Monday, September 15 | 7:00 PM Eastern Annapolis, MD Join in the fun - onsite, online, absentee bidding, or live telephone bidding available. Visit www.theriaults.com. Other upcoming event include the Maquoqueta Eastern Iowa Doll Show, Septmeber 14th at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, Maquoqueta, IA. Iowa Comicon, September 21st, Clairon Hotel, Quad Cities. More great doll events can be found on the website of Antique Doll Collector. This is a wonderful, colorful, and informative magazine for those who love antique dolls. Their Sepember cover features a very rare Kamner and Reinhardt 108, the only one known. This doll and other super rare German dolls will be featured at the September 24th auction at Bonham's, London.

Scenes from a Doll Show

Last month, I was able to attend a doll show I hadn't been two in over two years. I used to go regularly, since the late 70s. I found it in a new location, very nicely done, but with about 1/4 the dealers that used to be there. It has made me ponder the state of doll shows at my site DollCollectiong@about.com. Still, doll shows are wonderful. I love actually being there for "the thrill of the hunt." I get to talk to many people I've known for years, and there are a lot of memories that live there for me. My mom loved the doll shows, and we used to go all the time. If I couldn't go, she would go for me. So, here are some photos my husband took at the show. I hope that you enjoy them. There will be more photos on my blog Doll Museu; dollmuseum.blogspot.com.

Howard Gerstein

Howard Gerstein -  a tribute to a dear friend, and a wonderful man I have known since I was five years old.