GUEST: I brought my Dawn dolls.

I know that they were produced by Topper and they were supposed to be a competitor for Barbie.

I was a Barbie girl, and my mother would go to garage sales, church sales, whatever, and bring home a case of dolls.

And frequently, these were in there, as well.

And I was disappointed because I wanted Barbie, but I got these.

Also, they were inexpensive, and so I could buy them on my allowance.

APPRAISER: These six dolls here are Dawn dolls, and they are made by the Topper Toy Company, and they were made from 1969 to 1973, when the company went out of business.

When these first came out, they were a competitor to Barbie, and they were able to surpass Barbie for a little while in sales, which was crazy to think about.

Price for these dolls, originally new, was anywhere from a dollar to three dollars.

Barbie at the time, for the same-era doll, was five to ten dollars.

So, for affordability for a kid on allowance, you could afford these guys.

Clothing, a dollar or under.

The story with these guys is that Dawn is the owner of a fashion model business and all of her girlfriends were also fellow models.

And all of these fellas were the friends.

Dawn is made up of vinyl and hard plastic, and all of them are done similarly.

The girls all had rooted hair and eyelashes, whereas the boys had molded hair and painted features, no eyelashes.

They did have bendable limbs.

They've got holes in their feet, which would hold the stands.

All of them are like that.

It was meant to go up in the shoes.

You could have 'em stand out and hold positions, and they were a lot of fun.

This is the original Dawn in her original outfit.

And all the other guys are wearing different variations of outfits that were available at the time.

Originally, when Dawn came out, you could get 44 outfits.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: And part of what made them go out of business is because they started doing some specialty Dawn dolls.

And then the outfits sort of repeated, and then people stopped buying them because there was nothing new.

Now, I have never had the boys come in.

I think it's sort of like Barbie and Ken.

Everybody had one Ken.

They didn't need all the other dolls, so the boys weren't bought as much.

Little girls didn't buy the boy dolls.

For sale at a doll show or retail, your boys average $250 apiece.

GUEST (laughing): I had no idea, I really-- everybody says that, "I had no idea."

(laughs) Oh, my gosh!

APPRAISER: The girls that you have here are $150 to $200 apiece.

Some of the outfits are worth more than others.

So, total, with all of them, I would say a retail range is going to be anywhere from $1,300 to $1,500... GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: ...for just what you have right here with us.

GUEST: Wow-- oh, my gosh, thank you.

I had no, I had no idea that that was, that that was anywhere near that value.

Wow.

Holy cow.

(laughing) (laughs) I'm shocked.

(laughing): I'm sh-- I'm really shocked.

Especially for the boys.