Many of you may be wondering who I am and how I became an Antique Doll Dealer.  So I thought that I would share some of my history with you. 

I have to be honest that as a child I was more or less a Tomboy and I didn’t have much interest in dolls.  My love of dolls developed later in life.  But, as fate would have it, all of my previous experiences have come to serve me very well as a doll collector and dealer.

I was born in France but raised in New York when I emigrated to the US with my parents at the age of  4. As an art student in college, I concentrated on photography and after graduating from Brooklyn College with a BA in Art, I traveled for some time in Europe and the Middle East where I first developed a love for history and old objects of art.   I later earned my Master’s degree in Visual Communications at New York University  while I taught photography and Cinematography at Brooklyn College. I switched careers when I became a videotape editor for ABC where I worked on such shows as Good Morning America and Nightline. But the night shift did not agree with me.  I felt that I needed a new direction. I needed a to find my passion!

I always had an interest in art and antiques, but it wasn’t until my husband Frank and I bought an old Victorian house, that I began to seriously pursue collecting antiques. While attending country auctions, I often wondered why people paid so much for old, tattered looking dolls with crooked eyes and wigless heads and broken limbs. I was intrigued but not enough to put my money down.