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Happy Holidays Barbie 1997 Brunette Mattel #17833 Special Edition 10th Anniv NRF. Festive accents include a jeweled choker and earrings. Complete Contents: Barbie doll, red satin and white lace gown, hand ring, earrings, shoes, necklace, tiara, hairbrush, and doll stand — all present. One of the most collected Barbie releases of all time — the 10th Anniversary Happy Holidays edition from 1997, NRFB with all original accessories present. This is the iconic series that defined Holiday Barbie collecting, and serious collectors actively hunt clean examples. Who This Is For: Happy Holidays Barbie series collector, vintage Mattel collector, Holiday Barbie completist, 90s nostalgia buyer, or anyone looking for a stunning and historically significant Barbie display piece. Also check our other blackforestrarities listings — we have additional collectible Disney and Mattel dolls from this era available in our store. About This Doll: Barbie doll is a true image of royal splendor in holiday red, snowy white and glittering gold with a golden tiara adorned with six ruby-colored gemstones. Festive accents include a jeweled choker and earrings. The 1997 blonde Happy Holidays Barbie doll was available exclusively to members of The Official Barbie Collector's Club — making this one of the more exclusive entries in the entire Happy Holidays lineup. Costume & Full Accessories: Red satin holiday ball gown with white lace overlay Gold and red jeweled tiara — six ruby-colored gemstones Jeweled choker necklace Gold and red drop earrings Hand ring Holiday shoes Hairbrush Doll display stand Complete Contents: Barbie doll, red satin and white lace gown, hand ring, earrings, shoes, necklace, tiara, hairbrush, and doll stand — all present. Box Condition — Please Read & View Photos: Doll is NRFB — completely untouched, never removed from box. Box is in Good to Very Good condition — there are some small markings and minor evidence of previous sticker removal on the box exterior. No major structural damage. Please review all listing photos carefully before purchasing — all visible imperfections are shown. Questions about condition? Message us before buying. Why It's Collectible: The Happy Holidays Barbie series launched in 1988 and ran annually through 1998, becoming one of the most beloved and actively collected Barbie lines ever produced. The 1997 brunette Happy Holidays Barbie was the standard retail release of the 10th Anniversary edition — the version most collectors grew up seeing on shelves and the one that anchors the series for completists building the full annual run. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT BLACKFORESTRARITIES Mixed Rarities & Curiosities ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY BUY FROM US? ✦ FREE SHIPPING on all USA orders — no surprises at checkout ✦ SAME OR NEXT-DAY HANDLING — we move fast ✦ SECURE PACKAGING — every item packed with care ✦ TRACKING ON EVERY ORDER — know where your package is ✦ 24-HOUR RESPONSE TIME — questions answered promptly ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING We do not accept returns. Every item is accurately described and photographed — please review all photos and details before buying. Have a question? Message us first and we'll give you a straight answer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New items added regularly. Save our store so you never miss a find!