LONDON (Reuters) - Billed as the largest private collection of Barbie dolls, the lifelong passion of a Dutch mother will go under the hammer next month.
作为芭比娃娃最大的私人收藏者,荷兰一位母亲毕生收藏的芭比娃娃将于下月被拍卖。
Up for sale are 4,000 dolls spanning the entire history of Barbie and her friends, family and fashions which stretches back to 1959.
即将出售的这4000个芭比人物涵盖了整个芭比历史,包括芭比和她的朋友,芭比家族和芭比时尚,这些玩偶最早的出现在1959年。
"This is a collection of virtually everything -- and most of it is in mint condition as it has never been taken out of its boxes, making it particularly highly prized," said Daniel Agnew, toy expert at auction house Christie's.
负责此次拍卖的克里斯蒂拍卖行玩具专家丹尼尔·安格纽表示:“这些藏品几乎揽括了每一款芭比娃娃,且大部分连包装都没拆开过,保存状况十分完好,这使它们的售价可以非常高。”
Conservatively priced at around 100,000 pounds ($190,000), the collection will go on sale in London on September 26.
这些收藏品将于9月26日在伦敦拍卖,预计估价10万英镑。
It was started in the early 1960s by Ietje Raebel, who bought her first Barbie for daughter Marina.
这些芭比娃娃的主人是荷兰女时装设计伊捷·雷贝尔。在上世纪60年代早期,雷贝尔买了第一个芭比娃娃送给女儿玛里娜。
Marina spurned the doll which remained untouched in its box but Raebel got the collecting bug, inspired by Barbie's ever-changing wardrobe.
玛里娜对这只娃娃并不感兴趣,将它丢在盒子里碰都没碰过,但雷贝尔却开始了收藏芭比的兴趣,因为她被芭比永远都在变化的服饰激起了浓厚的兴趣。
Raebel had designed clothes for herself and her friends in the 1950s and 60s before she was married and had Marina.
上世纪50年代至60年代,雷贝尔在结婚生下女儿前一直都在为自己和朋友做服装设计工作。
After that she dedicated her life to Marina and Barbie, according to Marina. Raebel died in 2002.
据她女儿玛里娜说,雷贝尔婚后开始全身心倾注在女儿和芭比娃娃身上。2002年,雷贝尔逝世。 |