Doll Nib
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Posted by admin | Posted in Tonner | Posted on 30-09-2010
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Doll Nib
 Steiff Dolly Teddy Bear EAN 038990 20quot Mohair $455.00 
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 2012 MDCC EXCL VIVA LAS VEGAS AMERICAN MODEL AM 22 Tonner DOLL LE 50 IN STOCK $425.00
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 Steiff Harpo The Smiling Bear EAN 681905 18 $420.00
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 BATGIRL 22 inch Doll by Tonner Doll $314.99
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 TONNER AGE OF INNOCENCE CONVENTION 2013 SIGNED LADY GRACE CAROUSEL BALL LE 300 $324.99
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 TONNER 22 Sevilla T5AMDD01 $276.10
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 PARNILLA 2012 CONVENTION WEEKEND AT THE MANOR Evangeline RED DRESS NEW $289.99
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 Amelia Thimble Flutterby Doll NIB $300.00
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 Amelia Thimble Little Gardner Doll NIB $300.00
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 Tyler Wentworth Collection Robert Tonner La Femme Chic PS2001 Vinyl Paris Doll $300.00
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 Littlest Pet Shop Jet Sale Price: $124.95  Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionGive your little girl a toy that lets her imagination soar with the Blythe Littlest Pet Shop Pet Jet. This pet shop comes with a Blythe doll, pet bulldog, plane, and many other accessories for plenty of creative play...  |
 American Girl Doll of Year 2012 McKenna McKenna's Practice Wardrobe Sale Price: $145.99 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionWhen she's "ready to fly" with Shooting Star Gymnastics, McKenna wears this sporty gear. It's made to mix and match! A sleeveless leotard featuring an athletic design and sparkly accents A comfy tee with a gymnastics team graphic at the chest Stretchy velour shorts with a fold-over waistband for ease of movement To warm up between events, she can put on a twist-top cropped sweater A fabric ankle brace gives her enough support to stick the landing! She can wear her hair in sporty styles with a headband, four multicolored hairbands, and six purple elastics Plus, girls can create McKenna's braided ponytails using the included hairstyle card! DOES NOT INCLUDE DOLL... |
 American Girl Kit's Accessories Sale Price: $38.98 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours DescriptionThough times are hard, Kit still enjoys several things all her own: * A crocheted hat called a cloche, which is the French word for bell * A purse that holds a printed hankie and a reproduction buffalo nickel * A necklace styled after a compass inside a ship's wheel-to remind Kit that she has to find her way through difficulties |
 My Little Girl Nana's Heart & Joy 14" List Price: Sale Price: $29.99 You save: $10.00 (25%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionNanas Heart & Joy is a 14-inch baby with blue eyes, straight, banged, blond hair that's pulled back at the sides and tied with a pink, with white dots, bow. She's wearing a pink knit dress that's trimmed with sheer, sparkle pink, mesh ruffles at the hem and on the cuffs of the long sleeves... |
 Barbie School Zone - Route 66 - NIB Sale Price: $2.95 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionBarbie School Zone--Route 66 |
 Lee Middleton #2334 - Little Owen Sale Price: $32.99 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Description12" Long |
 Madeline Doll House Toiletry Set NIB (Retired) Sale Price: $22.09 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionMadeline Doll House set is complete with soap & soap dish, towel and towel rack, mirror, tooth brush and tooth paste, shampoo, cup, yellow duck, and bath brush . |
 Breyer Traditional Size Dressage Rider Megan 526 NIB Newlook for 2013 Sale Price: $14.25 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionNew and improved! Breyer's Traditional 8" female rider figures are now sporting newly-sculpted, contemporary faces and new hairstyles!Megan is dressed in a formal shadbelly, white show shirt and tie, top hat, white breeches and black boots... |
 Lights & Lace Barbie Teresa Doll NIB 1990 9727 Sale Price: $44.95 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours |
 Calico Critters Kozy Kitchen Master Bathroom 2 Sets Sale Price: $49.95 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionDeck out your Cloverleaf Corners House today! These 2 sets of furniture and accessories can be used to fill up any of the homes or used by themselves! Furniture sets includes one set of: Kozy Kitchen and the Master Bathroom... |
So - What Do You Give Your Father on His 70th Birthday?
What can I give my father for his 70th birthday? It's a question I've been pondering for a while, but without much success.
After all, 70 is a bit of a milestone and means he's been around for quite some time. Which as far as I'm concerned, is lots of years of being my dad, and doing it very well indeed.
Socks, belts or ties clearly won't do. I suspect that, over the years, he's probably received enough of these to stretch all the way to somewhere very distant. Or perhaps not quite that far, but you get my meaning: something very special is required.
Which reminds me of a time when my sister and I were still quite small.
All his working life my father was a journalist - a good one - and used to have to go abroad quite often when we were kids. At least, that's the way it seemed to us then.
After one trip to the Far East he came back laden with the most exotic gifts I'd ever seen.
I distinctly recall the tantalising scent of spices that clung to the boxes he dug from his suitcase. Jade jewellery and a seemingly endless Chinese dinner service for my mother; a beautiful porcelain doll sporting tiny, hand-sewn clothes and exquisitely braided hair for my sister; and for me, my first ever fountain pen, a grown-up, blood-red beauty with a devastatingly real gold nib. Needless to say, for some time I was slightly afraid of using it.
Did I mention that my dad was - is - an unselfishly generous man? He ended up with a 7 inch single named 'Chairman Mao Is Together With Us', which proves my point entirely.
Perhaps from that moment on my sister and I believed he'd always come home with something, because I remember how, as little kids, we refused to fall asleep until he arrived back from work. We were probably bundled into bed at 6pm or so in those days, and I doubt he turned up until at least half an hour later.
But hearing the front door open, my sister and I would shriek continually until he trudged upstairs to kiss us goodnight. I don't think we even gave him the chance to take off his jacket.
All those late evening returns and early morning departures. An endless ritual that always seemed one of those things dads simply do. Very occasionally we were taken to his office and, surrounded by the smell of fresh newsprint, were allowed to play with typewriters, rummage through drawers and perhaps reach the conclusion that working life must actually be quite good fun.
It's only much later, of course, that you're able to appreciate the reality of working weeks without end; the pressures and anxieties and sacrifices involved. I never once heard him complain.
Knowing this now, it's little wonder that another recollection I have of my dad is how he loved dozing in the sun on a hot weekend.
He rarely got much time to do this - there were shelves to (try to) build and gardens to dig and shopping trips to make and the vagaries of English weather to contend with - but duties over, if the sun was blazing, he'd lie on a sun-bed with a radio tinkling beside him and eventually fall asleep. A small pleasure which, of course, he'd earned many times over.
All the little things that go into making fathers, fathers. The moments recalled as, contemplating the merits of book tokens, slippers, bottles of port - in short, all the things that just won't do - I pluck memories from the drift of years as dad approaches his 70th birthday. And still I need to find him the right gift; a thank you and a celebration rolled into one.
If I had the ability to make life do wondrous things, I'd conjure him a venerable, leather-bound chair in just the right place beside a snapping fire. There'd be two snuffling puppies to drape across his feet and a green and blue parrot astride his shoulder, nibbling at his beard.
Billy Bunter, William and Ginger would invite him round for tea, and later that evening Frank, Dean and Sammy would drop by to croon him a Happy Birthday, graciously accept a glass or three of bourbon, then warmly shake his hand before heading back to Vegas.
I'd let him read all his favourite stories as if he'd never read them before.
But life isn't made that way, and in the absence of things I wish I could give, I can only hope this might do instead.
Words that are written just for him. Words that want to be many different things, but end up saying: "thanks, Dad"; and "how time flies! And here's wishing you lots and lots of love on your big, 70th Birthday."
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