GUEST
I brought Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy... to the Roadshow because they were one of my first dolls. I was seven or eight years old when I got them...
APPRAISER
Mm-hmm.
GUEST
...and I got Raggedy Ann before I got Raggedy Andy.
APPRAISER
Mm-hmm.
GUEST
And if you notice, Raggedy Ann has brown hair.
APPRAISER
Mm-hmm.
GUEST
That was before she... found the red dye. And I didn't like her too much when I first got her because her apron did not match the material of her panties.
APPRAISER
Ah, okay, okay. That's interesting. So you didn't really play with her a lot.
GUEST
My grandmother gave me this little... ah, penny doll.
APPRAISER
Yeah, I was looking at this little cute... little doll in the pocket. Now, what's that called?
GUEST
"Penny doll,".
APPRAISER
Okay.
GUEST
Because you bought it for a penny...
APPRAISER
Mm-hmm.
GUEST
...and she said that it was her first doll and her only doll. I don't know...
APPRAISER
It probably was, yeah. It's a little German doll.
GUEST
Yeah.
APPRAISER
Ah, do you remember when you got Andy?
GUEST
I got him probably, uh... My birthday is in January.
APPRAISER
Okay.
GUEST
And I probably got her right for Christmas...
APPRAISER
Uh-huh.
GUEST
...and him for my birthday.
APPRAISER
Do you remember the year?
GUEST
Uh, 1918, 1919.
APPRAISER
Do you know about who designed the dolls?
GUEST
Yes, a man who incidentally is... was a native Miamian.
APPRAISER
Okay, yeah, that's right.
GUEST
And, uh, he wrote these books, Raggedy Ann... about Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy.
APPRAISER
Right.
GUEST
And according to a little newspaper article I read, that these dolls, at one time, were given as a promotional...
APPRAISER
Right, that's true.
GUEST
...to - to sell his books.
APPRAISER
Good. Well, his name was Johnny Gruelle.
GUEST
Yeah, yeah.
APPRAISER
And this particular pair that you have here is made by a company called Volland, and Raggedy Ann was the first one. She was patented in 1915, and then Andy came along later. And Raggedy Ann has a painted face, which is a rarer face. The early Volland Raggedy Ann dolls have candy hearts which are placed inside the doll itself, and then later on, they used wooden hearts.
GUEST
Ah.
APPRAISER
They both have their original clothes. There's a little bit of wear and tear with age. I mean, you took very, very, very good care of them. Very collectible, very sought after, actually all over the world, even in Japan. Raggedy Ann and Andy are extremely popular in Japan. Um, of course you wouldn't know what your parents paid for them originally, would you?
GUEST
No, I have no idea.
APPRAISER
Well, they probably sold new for around probably 50 cents, maybe 75 cents at the max. They weren't a cheap doll. They were a very well-loved doll. Volland's being the first company that's produced them for Johnny Gruelle, uh, makes them the rarest. So on today's market, oh, Raggedy Ann just by herself is probably between $2,000 and $2,500.
GUEST
Wow.
APPRAISER
And Andy is probably $1,500 to $2,000. But they are a pair, they've always been yours, along with the little bisque doll, so I put a value on them from, safely, $4,000 to $5,000 for the pair.
GUEST
Oh, well that's...
APPRAISER
So they've gone up in price in their life.
GUEST
Yes, they have.
APPRAISER
And the little penny doll in her pocket is made by Hertwig, in Germany, 1890s. That's around $50.
GUEST
It's a good thing I didn't cut her out to find her candy heart.
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