Vintage Troll Dolls
While dolls representing mythical troll creatures likely date back to ancient times, modern troll dolls were born in 1959, when Danish woodcutter Thomas Dam (pronounced like "Don") created a wooden troll to give his young daughter for Christmas. Once he saw the toy’s popularity among other children in Gjøl, Denmark, Dam began making more and eventually formed a company called Dam Things, established to produce the dolls in hard rubber and,...Continue Reading