Lifelong Collectible Doll and Bear collection:
Vicki Golodetz began her doll
collection in the late 1980s. In the early nineties she started taking her niece, Anne Librach with her to the Disney
Doll and Bear Conventions. The two of them went annually for many years. Vicki also traveled to other doll and
bear shows including artist gatherings and Toy Fair. She was very fond of Wendy Lawton, Rosalie Frischmann, and
Robert Tonner and introduced her niece to them. She bought many of their pieces including Wendy Lawton's one
of a kind auction piece, The Lawton Princess. She belonged to several doll and bear clubs including Steiff, Wendy
Lawton, Robert Tonner, Madame Alexander, Deb Canham, the Muffy Club, and others. She was a big child who loved the
wonderful world of Disney. She belonged to the Walt Disney Classic Collectibles Society purchasing many of their porcelain
pieces.
When Vicki moved from New York to Florida, she bought her first home and decorated
with Disney themes. The master bathroom was painted as the Hundred Acre Woods and her guest bathroom was all Mickey
Mouse. Even her display pedestals and coffee table were Mickey.
One year she caused quite a stir in the doll
community as she had bid on an auction piece by Robert Tonner at a charity auction. She was told that she had won
the piece. When she went to pay for it, she was told that a last minute bidder, a celebrity film star, had outbid
her on the phone. It caused quite an uproar and was talked about in many doll magazines.
Vicki loved
her dolls and bears as we loved her.
