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Cherished Collectable's, Inc., Dolls By Mary Benner,
was established in 1992. We are a very small family business
with myself, Mary Benner, being the artist & designer of all
the lovely dolls you see in our gallery and many more which
are not shown. I started making porcelain dolls as a hobby
in 1989, over the past 20 years I think I have made hundreds
of dolls! When I look back at pictures of my early dolls,
they look quite primitive compared to the award winning
masterpieces I create now. My husband of 36 years, Allen,
pours the molds for most of my dolls and he is also the
fantastic photographer of my dolls! Allen also helps pack &
ship my dolls all over the world. My daughter, Marlee, helps
me with my books, which is a task that I am not very good
at!!
I specialize mostly one of a kind antique replicas and
occasionally - time allowing - my all original (sculpted by
me) artist dolls. I started sculpting dolls in 1996 and at
that time Allen and I made all of our rough molds by hand, a
very tedious job. However, the past few years, since the
birth of our grandchildren, I have not had much time to
sculpt & design original dolls. My antique replicas are my
true love and I never get tired of making them.
Unfortunately though, because my time is so limited now, I
am only able to make a small number of dolls a year.
Cherished Collectables has gone through a lot of changes
over the years. We used to do Doll Shows up and down the
east coast. However we seldom do Doll Shows anymore as my
dolls sell so quickly, it's too hard to put a collection
together to make doing a doll show worthwhile. And since the
internet, almost 100% of our sales are from the world wide
web. We sell our dolls all over Europe as well as in the
United States!
A few years ago we were having some of the dolls in our
collection manufactured in China. But because of problems
with the factory overseas & the great risks involved, we are
no longer producing factory made dolls. However, we do have
a few factory made Petite Dolls left for sale and you can
see them in our Gallery.
Over the years I have designed and sold my dolls on the Home
Shopping Network up until a few years ago when they did away
with their doll division. In recent years I have been
designing dolls for the Marie Osmond collection and I have
several dolls that will be coming out in her collection in
the near future.
Allen and I reside in Virginia Beach, Va. with our dog,
Callie. We have 2 daughters, Marlee and Brandi, and 6
grandchildren who live not far from us. |
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