It can be reached at 617-980-6642. The owner, Janice McIntyre, restores vintage and antique dolls. She can restring, repaint, give new wigs, eyes, clothing, etc.

One favorite restoration was a Kammer & Reinhardt character doll worth about $6,000 that had been charred in a fire. She used triple 000 steel wool pads to gently rub away the soot from the circa ...

“I was not allowed to touch hers. I was always jealous.” Years later, her husband purchased one of the ’50s-era dolls for her, unwittingly starting her on the path to doll restoration.

He uses them to repair the occasional antique, but says wryly: “I think they’ll still be here when I’m gone.” “Truth be told, I was born in a house of dolls,” says Caro, whose father ...

For decades, doll collectors came from around the United States and Europe to see Carlson in her shop — Ann Marie's Antique Dolls — on Youngtown's Alabama Avenue. Her professional doll ...

He said it was one of the 10 Carolinas created by Mr Lewis. Jim Melvin from Cairns Men's Shed with the restored antique doll's house, which is being put up for sale. Picture: PASCO ROGATO ...

DEAR SUN SPOTS: In response to the Sept. 7 inquiry regarding doll repair: I am the owner of a Special Place for Dolls in Wales. I specialize in antique doll repair but also do new dolls. In most ...

What did you miss? The Repair Shop viewers admitted they were left with "the creeps" after the show featured an antique doll with its head snapped off. The 1930s doll — named Annabelle — was passed ...

A–Write or send the doll to Edith Garney, Antique Doll Hospital, 3110 W. Irving Park Rd., Chicago 60618. If mailing the doll, include sufficient return postage and insurance.

In this photo from 1971, doll surgeon Mrs. James A. Freeman is surrounded by patients at her doll hospital in Delaware, Ohio. The doll in the stand on the table is from the Civil War era. Today ...