Collecting Unicorns
Unicorn (noun): Something that is highly desirable and difficult, if not impossible, to attain. Yesterday I found one of my all-time unicorns. I started collecting with 1950s dolls in 2000 alongside my mom. She had found a 1950s Cosmopolitan Ginger at Goodwill and grabbed it because it reminded her of her childhood dolls, which were mostly Madame Alexanders from the 1950s. In researching the Ginger (which aren’t marked and are hard to identify) we got started collecting. I ended up focusing heavily on Ginger, but had many other 1950s dolls, particularly Madame Alexander. A vintage Cissy was always the ultimate collector’s doll, one that was perpetually out of my reach, as I never had the kind of money a Cissy would cost — especially then. In the last 10 years I’ve started collecting more modern dolls such as American Girl and Gotz, but I’ve hung onto many of the vintage dolls I used to collect, including many of my Madame Alexanders. I’ve even added to those coll...
