7News Just InVintage Barbie collection stolen from family home
A rare collection of vintage Barbies has been stolen from a family home in Victoria's north. They're worth around $15,000 and doll detectives have a message for the thieves behind the heist.
For more, Tyra Stowers reports.
It took seventeen years to build a Barbie collection that took thieves just minutes to steal.
It's not just me that they've hurt. They've also taken what should be my daughter's when she turns twenty one.
One hundred and fifty rare dolls worth thousands of dollars.
They are worth about fifteen thousand dollars. However, obviously for the victim, these are effectively priceless.
All but two are gone after crooks broke into the family's home outside Shepperdon in northern Victoria.
But they'd completely cleaned out the crystal cabinet. Yeah, so it was just kind of like broke down.
The Barbies are irreplaceable, including the original Arizona Gene Company.
The Harley Davison said of Barbie's The Wizard of Oz, Beatrix Potter, and then there's ones that like, I'll be laying there for a night time and go, oh yeah, that one too.
A collection dating back to the nineteen seventies. The Barbie collectors community is offering to.
Help and they've reached out. There's been that many that have offered to donate so I can start my collection again, and like you just don't have the words for it.
Will priceless to the owner. The rare barbies were collectively worth around fifteen thousand dollars and out of the one hundred and fifty that were stolen, this Swan Leg barbie was one of the only ones left behind. Police a warning would be buyers to watch out for the thieves attempting to sell the vintage dolls online. Tyresours seven News
