Dear Helaine and Joe — I am seeking information on a baby doll. It has a porcelain head with a fully formed skull (no wig) measuring 10 inches in diameter and 3 inches from neck to skull.

In her video, @BrookeDarwin uses a porcelain doll, which are pretty expensive if you buy them brand new. However, I was able to find tons of options at my local thrift store for around $5.

I like to imagine the voyage of a single porcelain doll I owned as a kid. Her head was made in Armand Marseille’s factory in Thuringia, Germany. Her face, maybe 1 of 1,000 made that day, was ...

The head bobs up and down because it is attached to a long-weighted neck that's suspended in the neck's hole. The idea came from 18th-century porcelain figurines that had moving heads and hands.

The head is bisque — meaning the porcelain was fired only once and does not have a shiny glaze on it. What had us puzzled for a while was the report that this doll has a closed mouth, because ...

In 1869, Germans Carl Halbig and Wilhelm Simon formed a porcelain company called Simon Halbig (even though the mark looks like Halbic) to manufacture dolls and toys. They located their company in ...

Some of the heads were once connected by strings to allow the head to swivel, ... Miami Herald. 2,400-year-old ceramic dolls found on El Salvador pyramid. See their expressive faces. Story by ...