💸 Prices of Barbie No. 1, the first doll ever released by Mattel to bear the Barbie name, are reaching $10,000-plus. Here’s how to tell if a first edition is a fake before you plunk down five figures.
With the release this weekend of the new “Barbie” movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, there’s growing attention being paid to the world of Barbie collectibles. As in the hundreds of dolls that have been released over the years, to say nothing of such accessories as Barbie outfits and furniture.
Barbie fanatics speak of it in reverent terms. “I lost sleep over this doll,” one collector said in a YouTube GOOGL, +0.64% GOOG, +0.63% video that documented the arrival and unboxing of a Barbie No. 1. But before you plunk down five figures for an investment-grade doll, we figured you might want to know a little more about this one-of-a-kind Barbie. Here goes:Obviously, it’s all about being the first of its kind, not unlike a baseball player’s rookie card . It’s also about rarity. Experts say around 300,000 to 350,000 of those debut Barbies were sold in 1959, but the number of Barbie No.
Ironically, if the Barbie has stayed in the original box, it may affect the condition — Verderame explains that the packaging is acidic so it can “damage the piece over time,” but she says collectors still “want it in the box.”
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