MIN HOLLANDSKE GINNY
DUTCH GINNY
Dette er så absolut min flotteste og mest kostbare Ginny, men jeg var heldig at få hende meget billigt. Hun er en af de tidlige, 'strung' og med malede øjenvipper - dvs. en af de dyre piger. Og alt ved hende er originalt.
En sjov historie: Jeg fandt hende på ebay og kunne se, at sælgeren sådan set ikke vidste, hvad hun havde med at gøre. Som jeg har gjort det så ofte før og siden, skrev jeg til hende og gjorde hende opmærksom på, hvad hun burde ændre i tekst og titel for at få dukken til at blive fundet af dem, der ville give den rette pris (som regel over 200 dollar) for hende. Det fik hun altså ikke gjort godt nok, så da tiden nærmede sig, hvor auktionen skulle slutte, lagde jeg et - for mig - pænt stort bud for at 'jobbe' prisen lidt op. Ikke mindst fordi hun havde skrevet, at hun solgte den for et ældre ægtepar, hun kendte, hvor manden i sin tid havde foræret sin (dengang) forlovede dukken. Det gav bare ekstra kulør, da hun på et tidspunkt lavede en tilføjelse til auktionen: Hendes hund havde fået fat i den ene træsko og tygget godt og grundigt på den! Godt, det ikke var selve dukken!
Og så gik det hverken værre eller bedre, end at den, der bød i sidste øjeblik, lige præcis ikke nåede op på mit bud, så jeg vandt faktisk. Det var jeg selvfølgelig lykkelig over, jeg havde længe ønsket mig denne dukke, især i denne udgave med blondt hår i to nuancer. Her fik jeg den til en pris, jeg kunne overkomme, og så synes jeg, historien var så rørende. Jeg kan godt lide, når mine dukker har en historie! Træskoen har jeg fået repareret nogenlunde.
Og jeg har stadig trods alt lidt dårlig samvittighed over at have fået dukken så billigt.
This is my most precious Ginny - maybe my favourite doll? Strung, of course, with painted lashes. All original. I found her on ebay, and it was obvious that the seller did not know exactly what she had on her hands. This doll is rather sought after, so I wrote to the seller (I often do that) to tell her what she should change in her title and description to make sure the heavy bidders found her. This didn't quite work out, as far as I remember because a bid had already been placed. So when the auction was about to close, the bids were still rather low.
Just to make sure the winning bid would not be quite ridiculously low, I placed a (for me) rather heavy bid. Of course I would love to own this doll - I had been watching the Dutch Ginnys for quite some time, especially this type with two shades of blond in her hair - but just as important to me was that the seller in her description said that she was selling this doll for an elderly couply she knew, and that the man had given that doll to his fiancée as-she-was-then in the 1950's. I do like my dolls to have a story to them! And this doll's story was further enhanced when the seller suddenly added to her text that her dog had got hold of one of the clogs (luckily not of the doll itself!) and chewed it rather thoroughly!
Anyway, of course a last-second-bidder had been lurking, but he/she did not bid high enough. One more bid from the same person - still not high enough. The auction was over and the doll was mine! At a price I could afford.
I have restored the clog as best I could - isn't she gorgeous? I do enjoy her, but still feel rather bad about having got her at such a low price.
