Restoration Samples - Dolls, Figurines, and China

Restored and repaired dolls, figurines, and china from A Timeless Doll Hospital. Before and after photos of some of our projects.

A Timeless Doll Hospital's restored, repaired, and fixed dolls, figurines, and china

This page on our site contains links to a sampling of some of our restored doll projects. Showing you what your fixed doll could look like after a visit to our Doll Hospital will help you with your decision to restore your doll, doesn't it?

The fact that you do not see your specific problem here does not mean we have not encountered it before. Please contact us with your specific questions.

Restored Composition Dolls

Composition dolls are the most common patient in our Doll Hospital right now. This is a reflection of how popular they have become as collectibles in the past few years. Just visit e-Bay to see how many compo dolls are offered for sale.

• A complete 1940s Composite Doll Restoration, what we call a Premium restoration
• A Crazed and Cracked Maggie Muggins Composition doll doll, a common occurrence with compo dolls
• A crazed Shirley Temple doll, a frequent visitor to our Doll Hospital
• A Barbara Ann Scott doll with serious crazing, chipping, blistering, and inoperative sleep eyes, another frequent visitor
• Badly Cracked composition doll body
• Severely damaged composition doll head another Premium Restoration

Fixed Porcelain Dolls

Porcelain dolls find their way to our Doll Hospital for a variety of reasons, including gravity, mis-handling, and accidents with pets, children, and adults, the latter usually of the male persuasion! We can fix them! Please keep all the broken parts, no matter how small they are.

• Small(est) sleep eyes restoration
• Chipped cracked Porcelain Head; She had been repaired previously, but visibly!
• Smashed porcelain head; we call her Mission Impossible!
• Another Cracked chipped porcelain head
• Broken porcelain doll leg; completely detached we repaired it
• Missing sleep eyes and matted wig; our Doll Doctor is a Certified Master Doll Artisan and knows how to make and install sleep eyes.

Restored Restored Samples (Not an error - this is all about bad work)

• A badly repainted compo doll Not only re-painted improperly, this doll also had over sized eye lashes
• A badly repainted composition doll with features out of proportion

Cloth and Leather Body Restorations

• Leather body restoration of an antique doll with a bisque head
• Cloth body restoration; a child's toy, this doll had been loved to tatters

Makeovers

• Head only; the client had only head and the sleep eyes. We added a new composition body a wig
• Apart dirty doll; This doll came to us dirty, and completely apart.

Miscellaneous

• Papier Mâché doll; another common visitor, usually ravaged by moisture.
• Worn and restyled wig by a child. How many young girls have experimented with their dolls wigs AND their own hair!?

China and Figurines

• Resin Figurine (Mickey Mouse)
• Antique ceramic shooter
• Antique china plate
• Ceramic foot bath
• Three foot high religious plaster statutes
• Hummel figurine
• Ceramic figurine

Accessories

Offering a variety of doll accessories. We are a one-stop-shop hospital.

• Replica pram

With over a thousand restored and repaired dolls and figurines behind us, we have thousands of photos to show our customers when they come into the Doll Hospital or drop by at a show. As time permits we are adding more to this page to help you with your decision. So, the next time you visit this page, there may be more to look at.