Most Expensive Doll

Written by: tom Filed Under: Art, Collectibles, World on April 24th, 2006

Most people play with dolls, figures and replicas as toys when they are young. Some dolls are simple stuffed animals with plastic heads, and others are action figures complete with body armor and weapons. Certain dolls are exquisite works of visual art and engineering.

most expensive doll

L’Oiseleur (The Bird Trainer), a 4-ft-tall automaton doll, comes complete with sword, flute, pair of singing birds, and embroidered Renaissance-Era clothing. The expensive doll plays the flute, playing Marche des Rois by Georges Bizet. This amazing doll does not run on electricity or any motors but spring-driven cogs and gears.

The asking price for this most expensive doll is $6,250,000, yes 6.25 million US dollars. The price has to justify the 2,340 gilt or polished-steel parts and over 15,000 hours in a Swiss workshop that it took to create this extraordinary figure.

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  1. Posted by Alison 28th September, 2006 at 2:38 pm

    This is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen!!

  2. Posted by michael tan 16th November, 2007 at 10:07 pm

    oh my god! that looks like Michael Jackson!

  3. Posted by Kyle 23rd August, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    I think I saw this walking down the street the other day :)
    It reminded of my mom!!!!

  4. Posted by Ninja Pirate 26th August, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    That thing is the stuff of nightmares.

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