Check out some of the most expensive vintage Barbie dolls you can buy today. In 1959, Ruth Handler — co ... a record for the longest successful toy sale, stretching her reign from 1992 to ...

40% of the sale ... an auction of an original Barbie from 1959 with a "hand-painted face" and "very lush hair." “Every collector has dreamed of this type of doll,” he says.