The dolls are in perfect condition, with all the details. The faces have all their colour and splendour. The flamenco dancer has a pendant, bracelets, a back comb, earrings and a flower. The bullfighter also comes with all the complements. Opportunities like these are rare in this condition. They were found in a flea market in Sweden. These are collectible products and will never be manufactured again. Please, read their history to know why these dolls will always be collectible and will never lose value. Thanks for sharing their history. The story of a vision, a creation, a factory, a dream, an icon, a commitment. That of José Marín Verdugo, best known in Chiclana de la Frontera as Pepe Marín. From a young age he worked hard to make a life with those rag dolls. He began to manufacture them with his own hands during his Madrid adventure. This young aspiring painter had gone to Madrid from his home Chiclana in search of fortune. He soon returned to his hometown to found the company of his life: Muñecas Marín, active from 1928 to 2014, when it closed down forever. This company created a flagship product, a symbol of Spain wherever it goes: Marín dolls, with a flamenco outfit, were part of the decoration of thousands of homes in Spain and abroad. If they were placed or not on the television set is a debatable question. In the opinion of Ernesto Marín, the son of the founder, ‘that is part of the urban legend’, as confessed to Ester Requena in an interview, after the company closed down. At her own request, Lola Flores had her own design, inspired by herself. Wearing her fabulous fringed dress, fan in hand, La Faraona wanted to immortalize herself that way, thanks to the inventiveness of this Chiclana company. The powerful flamenco dancer, with her long-tailed dress and back comb, also got off the plane with the Beatles when they landed in Madrid in 1965. Those dolls were the souvenir par excellence in Spain in the days of the economic boom, when tourism seemed to be a great invention and the Spanish were trying to open themselves to a world that was unknown for them (represented by the tourists) from the ‘typical Spanish’. And there it was. That flamenco doll. In 2006, Ernesto and Ana, descendants of the founder, were still producing around 350,000 dolls. The star was the most flamenco of them. The one bought by Japanese, American and Italian tourists who visited Barcelona. 15% of its production went there, as wrote Ana María Ortiz and Dani Cordero in an article in El Mundo. ‘The power of the little flamenco doll as Spanish ambassador to the world was clear’ in the awards ceremony of the prestigious MTV. ‘As a gesture to Spain, the organization decided that the host, rapper Puff Daddy, would take the name of the winners from the skirt of a doll with a flamenco dress and a back comb’, they wrote. It took place in Barcelona in 2002. Nowadays the museum is also closed down. It’s a pity. For me these dolls are like the Tío Pepe sign or the Osborne bull, a classic and a lost icon.