Ancient collector dolls

I've become fascinated with the created by Tonner Company in its earliest years, beginning 1994 ("why no one was alive back then!")  As soon I want to find something it immediately becomes rare and expensive.  After I find and purchase the item, it becomes ubiquitous and the prices plummet.  Why is that?  I'm on the lookout for several American Model dolls, the largest ones Tonner ever made and the prettiest.  I just got "Katherine" and she's so gorgeous I stop and stare at her.  Also, I'm crazy.

And in my SPARE time....

Having bought more dolls than I can afford, I have taken to photographing dolls.  I drag Tim Burton's Alice Voyage of Wonder out to the backyard vines surrounding the crabapple tree and set her up in front of the old clipper ship model I pinched from Dad's desk, on top of an undulating expanse of blue plastic tablecloth and take a photo of Alice waving farewell at the "dock".  Or the above - the Tonner doll called "Reading to Alice" is - yes - reading to Alice.  Very fun and very pathetic.