Ann Greta is one of the hyper-realistic dolls from Cabbage Kids. Like, it comes with fiery red, braided or popcorn hair, pacifiers, shoes, and bows. In fact, you’ll also see German dirndl dresses and aprons that you won’t get elsewhere! So this one’s a rare regional collectible! The Cabbage Patch Dolls were not only an instant hit during the 1980’s but could also be described as a ‘fad’ within this decade. Every second little girl was asking Santa Claus for one in 1983, even so much so that the shopping centers who sold these were crowded with moms trying to get their hands on one in time for Christmas before they sold out. Feature When the Coleco company sold the Cabbage Patch Dolls, the boxes were often marked with the year of manufacture. While the style of the boxes changed over the years, the date was often front and foremost. The Coleco 1983 boxes do not sport a banner while those produced in the years following do. Following are the 15 rarest cabbage patch dolls that have been available till now. 1. Shelby the Blue-Eyed In determining whether or not you hit the gold mine with your old Cabbage Patch Kids, here are four basic pointers to keep in mind when examining your dolls:

If your doll is one of those that were produced in millions, this drastically reduces the value since there are probably hundreds of dolls like yours on the market. But if your doll fulfills the other factors like possessing adoption papers then your chances are increased. Date Of Manufacture The older the cabbage doll, the more valuable they are, like a true vintage item. The most valuable of the lot happens to be the ones before Robert Xavier made the deal with Coleco. Television The ‘Television’ section contains all of our articles related to the small screen. We have a very wide range of content – there’s a strong 80s focus with trivia on EastEnders and Grange Hill, but you can also find articles on popular contemporary TV programmes such as Breaking Bad and The Sopranos. If you fancy something a bit more niche then don’t worry – we’ve also got plenty of content on cult hits such as Twin Peaks, The X-Files and Quantum Leap. Happy hunting! They now mass produce cabbage patch kids, soft faced and hand stitched like the old times. Employees in the Hospital still dress in scrubs like doctors and nurses, and the kids are still laid up in incubators and cribs, like real babies.The doll is made of plastic materials that provide a distinctive design that kids enjoy for its head. In this way, they can play more creatively. 5. Vintage Retro Style

In the 1980s, Cabbage Patch dolls were at the top of the market since kids wanted one at that time. 2014 was the year of the Cabbage Patch doll re-launch, and the dolls were quite popular, indicating that children still love them. Every authentic Cabbage Patch Kids comes with a Xavier Roberts signature, typically on the doll’s left butt cheek. In very rare instances, the signature may be on the right butt cheek or upside down. In addition to this signature, there is also a year printed—if there is no year, the color of the signature indicates the year. Unlike some of the other big brand toys produced during the 80s and the 90s, Cabbage Patch Kids were often well marked with their year of manufacture. By 1982, Roger L. Schlaifer had acquired the unique worldwide licensing rights to the brand and renamed it ‘Cabbage Patch Kids.’ These cabbage patch dolls broke toy industry sales records three years in a row.And this one’s rare because Xavier Roberts signed it and added some heart-shaped name tags at the base! For those of you who did not grow up in the time of Cabbage Patch Kids, you may have not even heard of them prior to stumbling upon this article. While dolls such as Barbies are recognized globally, what saw the Cabbage Patch Kid stand out against other dolls was their cuddly nature. While the Baby Alive Doll produced around the same time had many interactive features, the simplicity of the Cabbage Patch Kids (CPK) was what little girls during this period were seeking. Robert called his own creation The Little People. They were actually modified versions of Martha Nelson’s dolls. The dolls also came with birth certificates, adoption papers, exactly like Martha Nelson did hers too.

If you love quirky dolls, you’ll surely flip over this big-nosed girl from Cabbage Kids. Unlike others, this one has a big, round pokey nose and painted purple eyes. Also, it’s more premium and comes with original heart-shaped tags and engraved dates! While the dolls have been around for many decades, they still sport the same look. Cabbage Patch Dolls can be distinguished by their:

Robert went ahead and had a woman named Debbie Moorehead hand stitch dolls that shared striking resemblance with Martha Nelson’s Doll Babies. The original Cabbage Patch Kids stood between 16 and 18 inches tall while the Preemies measured between 14 and 15 inches. The Coleco produced a number of specialty lines of the dolls during their peak time and it is these limited edition style CPK’s that often fetch the highest prices at auction. During 1985, Coleco produced special edition kids such as twins, world travelers, and western kids and later in 1986 specialty kids such as the astronauts and all-stars were released. Following this, in 1987, Coleco released a Cabbage Patch Kid designed to be able to be bathed and another kid that could talk.

In this guide, we not only list the original dolls that started it all but also the most looked for dolls on the market that collectors are eyeing. While not everyone is born with a trained eye for the finer details of Cabbage Patch Kids, for your convenience, we go into detail for how to generally determine your doll’s worth as well as how to identify the key traits that highly sought after dolls have. For most of the Cabbage Patch Kids, no two are the exact same. Whether they have different eye colors or hair colors, it was their uniqueness along with their adaptability that made the world fall in love with them time and time again. While in more recent years, you can find identical Cabbage Patch Dolls, in their earlier years, especially when they were handcrafted by Xavier himself, the dolls were each their own little people. This means that each doll does not have a set collectible value and the price of each really depends on supply and demand. There are a number of things that can make one doll more valuable than another and we mention those in the section above. The value of Cabbage Patch dolls had gone up since the 1980s, when they first became popular. There are, however, some new designs in the re-release, which don’t add as much value to the original.This is a special doll made by the Jesmar Toy Company. The toy became popular overseas, and the company needed a supplier, so Jesmar Toy Company stepped up to help make the demand for Spain, Italy and West Germany in the 1980s. The Jesmar doll was one of their signature dolls during the highlight of the cabbage patch kid crazy. Stephanie Vivian- Little People Doll