In 2006, Christie’s sold a lady’s 1959 Original Barbiefor 2,880 pounds, more than double the estimated price of 800 – 1,200 pounds. You also have the opportunity of doubling your estimated value. Service Charges may also apply. Barbie Dolls by Years Former TOWIE star Shelby Tribble, 30, reveals she's had a breast cancer scare and has had to have a biopsy after finding a lump Strictly's Bobby Brazier and Dianne Buswell look close as they get to work at rehearsals - after performance in honour of Jade Goody

Jennifer Aniston encourages fans to donate to late Friends costar Matthew Perry's charity foundation: 'He would have been grateful for the love' Aghast at Mattel’s absurd overreach, the jury not only found against Mattel but found in favor of MGA’s countersuit. The judge awarded MGA more than three hundred million dollars in damages. Who owns Bratz?” Kozinski asked at the opening of his landmark opinion. Not Mattel was his answer, in a ruling in which he listed a series of errors made by the lower court, including its finding that the features of an idealized female body were ideas that anyone could own. “America thrives on competition,” Kozinski declared. “Barbie, the all-American girl, will, too.”I'm A Celebrity star Fred Sirieix's fiancée Fruitcake catches her flight to Australia as she prepares to reunite with star when he leaves the jungle Angela Scanlon breaks her silence on her 'premature' Strictly Come Dancing exit as she admits she can't stop crying: 'Feels like it's been cut short' Modern Barbie– Because the doll’s production spans 63 years, Barbies made after 1972 are classified as Modern Dolls, while pre-1972 models are vintage. It follows the technical rule of vintage and antique attributions of 50 and 100 years, respectively. Despite Barbie’s initial success, many parents were concerned about the mature appearance of Barbie’s body, but Ruth Handler saw it as important to give young girls a distinctly adult role model to look up to and aspire to. She was a doll that represented a modern, well-rounded woman who could be anything from a mother to a doctor to an astronaut.

The new live-action film about the iconic doll, starring Margot Robbie and directed by Greta Gerwig, has leant right into Barbie's association with the colour, its set designers working with a palette of 100 different shades, and apparently contributing to a global shortage of pink paint. The movie's all-conquering marketing campaign has left a sea of pink wherever it goes, from billboards, buses and the cast's (pink) carpet outfits to a real-life Barbie Dreamhouse on Airbnb, more than 100 brand tie-ins and a Google takeover. Ryan Phillippe, 49, posts rare photo with daughter Kai, 12, whom he shares with ex Alexis Knapp of Pitch Perfect fame: 'Pizza was had, Elf was watched' In France, Brigitte Bardot escaped the cliché of the dumb blonde to embody another kind of hypersexualized woman-child, while Mylène Demongeot of Good Morning, Sadness (1958) adhered somewhat closer to the original trope. Director Jacques Demy paid homage to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967), in which he cleverly reversed the roles: the blonde Catherine Deneuve played the spiritual character in search of romantic love, while the brunette Françoise Dorléac was more daring and found her better half in a mature and well-positioned man. But Demy’s partner, Agnès Varda, made the truly revolutionary gesture with her masterpiece Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), the story of a presumably dumb blonde who becomes aware of the emptiness of her existence when she is diagnosed with cancer and decides to take control of her life. In a key scene, the main character removes her wig and steps out of the narrow box in which society has confined her. In so doing, she stops being a doll handled by others and becomes a woman on her way to emancipation.Julie Chrisley could DIVORCE 'broken and hopeless' husband Todd for convincing her to go along with his 'foolproof' tax fraud Families, girls growing up, and a whole slew of collectors have been grateful to Mattel president and inventor, Ruth Handler, for giving them a franchise worth appreciating in all its manifold splendors. And, as has become the case, to cash in on! Barbie dolls are not just pretty they are also pretty expensive, if some of their collector-value prices are to be believed. So if you happen to own one of these Barbies, or know someone who does, you’re sitting on a mini-goldmine, and that’s only if you have the heart to give them away.