We got the little stick one at a garage sale when we bought a box of office supplies for my husband to use in his classroom. The people we got it from said that their son travel back and forth from Japan every year. The lady that looks like a rolly polly was given to me by a friend. He had to vacant his house and was asking my husband and I if we would like to buy stuff. I saw another oriental lady that I got. When he brought me the one he gave me this other one too. We just have too much stuff to keep everything. I don't think that the face is porcelian. I think it's plastic. That's about all I know about them.