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Teddy bear and doll repair in Texas

4 businesses whose own websites say they are in Texas, plus 1 placed here by somebody other than them. 3 take work in person.

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Where they are

Carrollton, Dallas, Nash and Spring. One more does not name a town.

What kind of business

Three doll hospitals, two restoration specialists.

Getting it to them

Three take work in person, one takes it by post, one does not say how. Ring before you drive anywhere.

What they say they do

One says it repairs joints. One replaces eyes and noses. One rebuilds badly damaged pieces. Two take fire, flood or smoke damage.

Prices they publish

  • Not Just Dolls: Restringing, $10-$35

One of five publish a price for the work. The rest quote after they have seen it.

In Texas

  • Not Just Dolls

    A doll shop and repair service in the Dallas Fort Worth area that also sells dolls and does appraisals. Their published price list is mostly doll work, but it includes reattaching bear limbs, replacing eyes on stuffed toys and cleaning toy clothes, and they quote from a photo emailed to them.

    1211 S Fm 1138, Royse City, TX 75189(214) 537-2727njdolls@aol.com

    Dallas

    Placed here from their phone number, not their address

    you can hand it over

  • The Doll Hospital

    A doll hospital with a shopfront in Old Town Spring, north of Houston. The site gives an address, a phone number and opening hours, and very little else: there is no service list, no price guide and no description of what they will or will not take on.

    419 Gentry St, Ste 102, Spring, TX 77373(281) 350-6722aaadolldoc@aol.com

    Spring

    Said open, reducedread off their site yesterday

    you can hand it over

  • CRDN Team Crouch

    The CRDN franchise covering Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas, with plants in Nash, Houston, Memphis and North Little Rock. Twenty years, 24 hour emergency response, and they will take heirloom fabrics and taxidermy mounts as well as clothing.

    100 Industrial Blvd, Nash, 75569(903) 793-0560

    Nash

    Said openread off their site yesterday

    you can hand it over

  • Attic Antiquity Doll HospitalDDA member

    Dorothy Meredith and her husband Mike, restoring dolls from a studio in Central Texas since the early 1980s, specialising in composition. Every patient is tagged, catalogued and put in a labelled container to wait its turn, and they do all the work themselves rather than sending it out. Written estimate before anything starts.

    (830) 606-5868dmeredith@dolldr.com

    In their words: “Our goal is not to make an antique appear new, but to restore damage while preserving as much of the original as possible.”

    Texas

    takes it by post

  • Paul Davis Restoration of North Dallas

    Part of a national disaster restoration franchise, cleaning up after fire, water, mould and storm. Their soft contents service names toys and stuffed animals explicitly as things they save from being thrown out. You reach them in the hours after something bad has happened, usually through an insurer.

    2205 Hutton Dr, Ste 110, Carrollton, TX 75006(469) 777-6805

    Carrollton

    Said openread off their site yesterday

    Doesn’t say how you get it to them

Everywhere, including Texas

6 of these are national rather than local: a chain with a shop near most people, a restoration franchise dispatched to wherever the damage is, a manufacturer's own service. They are as available in Texas as anywhere else.

The Doll Doctors Association lists 2 members in Texas

We are not going to reprint their phone numbers here. Those were published by the association, about them, and passing them on second hand from a site they have never heard of is not ours to do. Their own locator is the list those people agreed to be on, and it is the one that gets kept up to date.

  • Attic Antiquity Dolls

    Seguin · has a website

  • Antique Child

    Austin · has a website

Their locator, with the contact details Read their guidance before you send anything. They say plainly: do not ship until the hospital has agreed to take it, and insure it for its replacement value both ways.

Or post it to one of these

23 businesses anywhere in the country say they take work by post. Before you send anything: of the 194 we have read, 2 say anything about insuring your item while it is with them. Insure the parcel yourself, both ways.