Doll Repair Antique Doll Repair and Restoration Doll-Lee Art offers the finest quality antique doll repair and restoration work, performed by a trained doll restoration professional. Repair means to fix something that has been damaged or broken and return it to functionality, such as cementing two parts of a broken leg or resetting sunken eyes. This generally requires technical knowledge of materials and mechanical skill. Restoration means to return something to its original condition or appearance, and is usually performed after a repair. In the case of the broken leg, once the pieces have been cemented, its functionality has been returned, but to make the repair invisible, as if it had never happened, requires restoration.
Restoration is a fine art which requires considerable knowledge and artistic talent.
Some classic or antique dolls are very valuable. Those childhood dolls of your own or your grandmother's, moldering away in attics or basements, could truly be treasures. Dolls made by the master dollmakers of France and Germany, as well as classic American dolls, are beautiful and can add much to the decor of a home. There is a great sentimental value to having a doll from one's own childhood or which belonged to a parent or grandparent, a treasure beyond monetary worth. Modern dolls of vinyl and plastic are not generally restorable.