Q: I bought a pair of vintage Mickey and Minnie dolls from a woman who had been a secretary in the Animation department for many years. The notation was that they had been replicas created by a woman named Edna Allen in 1934. Do you know anything about Edna Allen and her connection to the Animation group? How would I go about determining the origin and value of these models? They are about 20 inches tall and are hand-sewn using fabrics of silk, velvet, and flannel with some sort of wood or hard substance inside the base of the feet. Might they have been models for the animators?