A complete guide, Selling Your Dolls and Teddy Bears leads you, step by step, through the business, public relations and legal aspects of doll and teddy bear sales. You'll learn how and where to advertise, how to determine the right prices for your dolls, how to photograph your work properly, and what taxes and laws apply to a self-employed artist. Plus, you'll find techniques to help you manage your image and increase sales - such as how to put together a stunning press kit. Most important, you'll learn how to attract customers - and keep them coming back. From teaching workshops to making sure your name and reputation are passed word-of-mouth, you'll find techniques to enlarge your client base to include every kind of customer, from individual collectors to large retail stores.
Follow this easy step-by-step guide to design, create, and produce your own top quality teddy bears. Easy to follow directions show helpful shortcuts plus how to avoid pitfalls. Marketing opportunities and how to start a building career are discussed. Includes a pattern for 12 teddy bear.
The Sears, Roebuck and Company's catalogs, published since 1896, always included toys and dolls for children even from its earliest days. Millions of kids watched their mailboxes each year for the postman's delivery of the Sears Christmas Wishbook... the unofficial start of the holiday season... and the official start of a kid's Christmas list. That's probably why the nickname "Wishbook" stuck. Today those old catalogs, so much a part of our childhood memories, are virtually lost. However, the toys and dolls pictured in those pages have become hot collectibles. Doll and teddy bear collectors number in the millions, with numerous magazines and nationwide conventions catering to them. And now there's big news! Those lost Wishbook pages from the Baby Boomer years of the Fifties and Sixties, jammed full of wonderful dolls and cute teddy bears, have been reproduced in The Doll & Teddy Bear Department, an exciting new book containing authorized reproductions of the best doll and teddy bear pages from 1950 through 1969. This 8 fi x 11 softcover book's 192 pages illustrate hundreds of now-collectible dolls and teddy bears... from the wildly popular to the obscure and rare: Barbi and Ken, Shirley Temple, Mme. Alexander, Lucy and Desi's Little Ricky, Betsy Wetsy, Tiny Tears, and hundreds of other dolls. Collectible teddy bears large and small are represented too, along with dollhouses and doll accessories... and their original low selling prices! Included is a commentary on the dolls, manufacturers and historical relevance. No book this comprehensive has ever been published before. If you are a collector, you must have The Doll & Teddy Bear Department Even if you're not a collector, you'll love seeing these charming Wishbook pages again for the happy memories that will return. Chances are you'll spot a long forgotten childhood friend here, too! -- Jam-packed with warm and happy childhood memories. Hundreds of photographs and illustrations with accompanying commentary
With its 800-plus listings, this is the most complete treasury of bear information ever stuffed between covers. Teddy bear collectors and artists will turn here whenever they need to find retailers who sell bears by mail order, sellers of bear-making supplies, and much more. The book is alphabetized and cross-referenced, making it easy to use. Illustrations.
Miller's Antiques Checklist: Jewelry offers a comprehensive guide to the vast range of jewelry produced in Europe and America from the 19th century to the present Jewelry is divided into easy-reference sections by type, and everything is covered from Victorian Etruscan Revival brooches to 1980s designer costume jewelry.
