Annette Himstedt First World Children Summit

Have you seen the new Annette Himstedt dolls for 2005? You can see them on the Internet,(I have some great photos of the dolls at Toy Fair at my Doll Collecting at About.com site) or in their beautiful, full color catalog.

We have been surprised at how popular these dolls have been this year! The doll are always hard to find, and always hard to order for the store, since many are done in editions of only about 300 dolls worldwide. However, we weren't sure how collectors would respond to the ethnic/world dolls theme. Well, they love it! This year, my store was allocated Munria, Kaschmiri, Ilai, Mapi, Kimi, Salinda, Mugi and Nia. We have totally sold out of Ilai and Nia, and we are close to selling out on most of the other dolls.

If anyone doubts that dolls are art, they need to take a look at these beautiful, life like dolls, totally made in Germany by hand.