Q. I recently purchased this Victorian doll screen at a flea market in Paris. Each of the four amber-colored glass panels is painted with flowers and birds, and there are no repairs or cracks.

Wooden dolls, puzzle toys and tumble down the ladder games are all on show as part of an initiative to show young people what Christmas would have been like in the Victorian age.

Victorian toys, mostly created for wealthy children, embodied this schism. And lavish porcelain bisque dolls, often depicting high society with garments of velvet and lace, could be considered the ...

Collectors like toys with colorful, detailed, often amusing or realistic decorations. Bliss doll houses, wooden houses covered with a colored paper lithograph that includes doors, windows, bricks ...

While sales of dolls in 2014 were lower than they had been 10 years earlier, the figures were still in the billions of dollars – $2.32 billion to be exact, outstripping sales of vehicular toys ...

The realistic 4ft 7ins dolls were spotted at venues including Charing Cross Tube Station, Oxford Street and Regent Street, where they were seen carrying toy dols and pushing an empty 1900s-era pram.