Are Sasha dolls good investments? Which ones are the best investments?
I get this question very often. I will not answer it specifically except to say that prices on everything fluctuate. Several years ago, I was selling Raggedy Ann items for crazy prices to Japan. Now large lots of Raggedy items don’t even open on Ebay. Dolls, like any investment (including stocks) do not necessarily go up on value. Conversely, Sashas are special for several reasons. First and foremost, the Trendon factory is gone. They are a defunct company and will not be making any more Sasha dolls ever. Same goes for Gotz – they have closed their doors in Germany, as of 2003 and are not producing any dolls except for a few bearing their name only, in China. Third, the family has not granted the license to produce the dolls to anyone else. While someday they may, in the future, Trendon or Gotz will not be producing them. Sashas are difficult dolls to produce for reasons that you can read about if you can find a booklet called “Where Do Sashas Come From”. More importantly, unlike dolls
