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Visit my website: www.grandmasatticdolls.com 12” Early Portrait Jumeau #2 Bebe, br. p/w eyes, immaculate early pressed pale bisque, orig. mohair wig & cork pate, orig. head coil, wears darling real Jumeau Fr. ant. wool ecru & pink sailor suit, ant. woolen beret, undies, Jumeau shoes & ant. stockings. On orig. early 8 ball st. wrist “signed” Jumeau body. AMAZING in this tiny cabinet size!!! Great price at only $9800.

10 1/2” S & H #1279 Character, blue sl. eyes, immaculate pale bisque & ant. braided HH wig, wears orig. batiste dress adorned with ribbons & ant undies. The most DARLING rare tiny cabinet size & fabulous modeling!! ADORABLE!! $2450.

13" Bru Jne #2 Bebe, blue p/w eyes, mint pale bisque, orig. mohair wig & pate. Wears orig. silk & lace Bru dress (some fraying), orig. hat, undies and “signed” Bru shoes. On orig. Bru Jne #2 Chevrot body, paper label on chest, wooden legs, perfect bisque “signed” shoulder plate & perfect lower arms & hands. “Signed” Bru Jne #2 head, desirable molded tongue tip & great cabinet size!!! FABULOUS face!!! CALL OR WRITE FOR PRICE 18 1/2” S & H #1279 character, mint pale bisque, blue sl. eyes, desirable early flyaway brows, fabulous orig. long mohair wig orig. pate, wears orig. dotted Swiss dress, orig. undies, orig. socks & orig. pink leather shoes & added ant.ribbon & lace bonnet. On orig. S & H body. Crisp deep modeling!! Absolutely STUNNING!!! Only....$2950.

12” Kestner #143 Character, perfect bisque, beautiful blue sl. eyes & newer mohair wig. Wears orig. batiste & lace dress, ant. socks, leather shoes with buckles & ant. lace & ribbon hat too. On fabulous orig. Kestner body. Tremendous presence & absolutely GORGEOUS!! $1450.

16” K * R 116A Toddler, o/cl./ mo., great bisque, br. sl. eyes,, ant. wig & orig. pate, wears ant. light blue dress, ant. bonnet & ant. blue leather shoes, socks & orig. undies. On orig. chunky fully jointed early st. wrist toddler body. Deep first of out mold modeling. Absolutely ADORABLE!!! $2150.

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5” Parian,blonde painted hair, bisque face, lower arms & lower legs. Wears a her beautiful orig. lacey dress & undies. Darling tiny size!! $195.

6 1/2” S & H All Bisque “Barefoot” Mignonette, huge outlined blue p/w eyes, orig. long mohair wig, wears orig. aqua silk & lace dress, orig. undies & ant. bonnet. On orig. all bisque “barefoot” body, early “peg strung” (one very teeny fleck at 1 stringing hole, nondetracting) & a “swivel neck”. GREAT large size barefoot all bisque & BREATHTAKING!!! ONLY....$4250.

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The Complete Guide to Antique, Vintage and Collectible Dolls

May 2014 Volume 17, Number 4

SOCIETE DES BEBES JUMEAUX

By Dominique Pennegues To be competitive in the cloth doll market, S.F.B.J. created a new company. Surviving examples of these dolls are difﬁcult to ﬁnd.

THE HOUSE THAT CRIED “RESCUE ME!”

THERIAULT’S TO SELL THE HELEN WELSH COLLECTION

By Susan Grimshaw Although purchased in careworn condition, the author was charmed by this British dollhouse and its original features.

DRESSING DOLLS IN THE SONNEBERG AREA OF GERMANY PART II

May 24 and 25 in Las Vegas

By Mary Krombholz All original dolls from this former doll and toy making capital in Germany.

The elegant Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas will be the setting for two important private collections to be sold by Theriault’s May 24 and 25. Our article features rare and varied treasures from the Helen Welsh collection.

About The Cover

CREATING A BODY FOR MY DE FUISSEAUX

By Sherry Smith The oldest known doll factory in Badour, Belgium produced bisque doll heads for only a brief time.

A COVER GIRL

By Ursula Mertz “Sis,” an adorable doll designed by Grace Drayton, was sold by the Averill Manufacturing Company.

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A ROOM OF THEIR OWN

By Laurie Baker Easy to follow directions on how to create an elegant salon for your fashion dolls.

1. Beautiful selection of important half dolls – some on original mounts. Call. This one on original mount shown in a full page photo in Marion/ Werner’s Encyclopedia.

3. Call for large selection of cotton batting die cuts.

2. This sumptuous and regal beauty, the 16” Block Letter F.G. is a glamorous bebe in the league of Bru, PD and Schmitt et Fils. The most desirable of all Gaultier dolls, she is a very important model having a rare fully jointed composition body by Gesland, with powder fine quality bisque, shaded lids and soft brown PW eyes which complete this ultimate image of regal grace. $4700 4

4. 16” All Original Jumeau Fashion w/Bisque Arms – straight from a two generation family held collection, she is all factory original in rarified silk couture with elaborated braided wig befitting her aristocratic French heritage. Her graceful bisque arms are so rare and mint with blush and tinted nails, as is her flawless scintillating bisque – an eloquent host to her captivating beauty! $4250

5. So expressive is this coquettish 16” Unique and Romantic Fashion Heirloom from hat to signed shoes in her 2-part French blue gown w/ silk trim train, signed French leather body and shoulder length ringlets… so lithesome! $2600 8

8. Luxurious Dressel and Kister Half Doll – aristocratic portrait of grace and style – plus others. Call

6. 22” Lavish E. J. Bebe – earlier gentle face model with the early soft brows, shaded lids, glowing PW’s, orig. 8 ball stiff wrist body also signed; and wearing luxurious silk period clothes and shoes! Breathtaking! $6200

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7. For the Dressmaker! A rare 11” Jumeau Fashion ‘size 2’ cabinet gem, perfect and petite w/ factory wig, pate and blue PW’s – you need a ‘little sister’ doll – worthy of your talents! $2100

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matrixbymail@gmail.com 9. 16” Steiff ‘Clownie – impressive size and all original, mint w/complete costume, hat and tag! $295 10. Miniature K * R 116A – fantastic little 10” example, mint with factory wig and body finish, op/cl mouth, sleep eyes and precious original clothes! $1100 11. 17” Early 1920’s Lenci Toddler – ‘flat nose’ model with painted nostrils, chubby body, oodles of ringlets, organdy and felt ensemble – a scamp! $495 12. Most elegant baby ever – a 13” Swaine Baby Baby, c, 1910, a Hilda type baby with thoughtful aspect, artful shading and coloring, closed lips, orig. period cloths w/miniature bib. $450

13. 11” Cabinet K * R 122 – charming factory clothes and wig, perfect in every way, amazing dewy bisque, angelic blue sleep eyes and op/cl mouth with tongue. A winner! $495 14. The perfect accessory to the Nursery is this 10” tall Schoenhut Roly Poly Baby with all the original paint and label! $295 15. 16” Rare Sleep Eye Scootles – an exceptional size by Cameo, great condition, factory romper and shoes, with rattle - a prize! $595 16. Heart-shaped lips, rounded tongue and button nose are just part of the charm of this rare ‘641’ Bahr and Proschild, c. 1915, with oily bisque and period clothes – a cabinet cutie! $425

17. The Classic Bonnie Babe in a wonderful 17” size with flawless bisque, gurgling smile and pure blue eyes on the excellent original toddler body with the factory ensemble to boot! All mint! $495 18. 25” Lifelike ‘Hanna Toddler’ – sold… but we have another! A super size 25” character with brilliant features, oily sheen, vibrant bright eyes and chunky toddler body. $950 19. 11” 1840’s Wire Eye Motchmann Baby – all original historic doll w/ swivel head, wire operated sleep eyes, early jtd. hands and feet, all beneath exquisite layers of finery for 172 years! $750 20. We make a point of buying these important E. Heubach ‘Vanta Babies’ – this one is 16” w/ the butterscotch side part hair, incredible quality ‘oily’ bisque, blush and sleep eyes. A must have. $495

21. 6” ‘Our Fairy’ – mold ‘222’ mint with original arms, label and wig, glass eyes – the all bisque googly with watermelon grin! $495 22. 20” Heirloom JDK 226 – one never tires of the artful Kestner modeling of this intelligent and sensitive baby w/ glistening eyes and plump cheeks. A ‘no show’ under wig flaw can bring this sweetheart home to you for just $450 23. Endearing 18” Hoffmeister Baby – what a huggable bundle w/chubby body, round blue happy eyes, glistening creamy bisque and her pretty, delightful play dress. $395

24. A Montana woman created this remarkable doll in 1913. At 34” this stunning Skookums will enliven any room in your home – and keep you safe! $850

25. Mechanical Jester Toy – not your typical doll’s toy – the clever Edwardian character has a very special face! $695 26. 6-1/2” Bebe Face All Bisque – early 1880’s Kuhnlenz in the mignonette manner w/ choice lambs wool wig, dewy bisque, PW eyes, and pretty original clothes! $1100 27. 5” All Bisque Bonnie Babe – all original w/molded shoes and socks, sleep eyes, tiny curls! Flawless $795. Another mint and nude $495

29, 30, 32 Beautiful Big Girls – perfect bisque, large heads, pc’d ears, sleep eyes, long uncut wigs, fully jointed composition bodes_ fully dressed! 30” Bebe Cosmopolite – for Handwerck, lovely soft coloring. $495. 30” Doe-eyed Bergmann by Halbig – big, rich eyes, delicate color, $475. 29” Ernst Heubach w/ gentle blush, chunky body. $395 31. 7-1/2” Miniature K * R – meticulous little gem, fully jointed incl. hands, tiny leather shoes and oodles of curls, all mint! Call. 3” All Bisque Dolls’ Dolls – factory original, jointed limbs and pretty! $95 each

28. Joyful ‘Laughing Jumeau’ – a winning personification of the french baby, the beloved ‘236’ with original body, op/cl mouth and glistening blue sleep eyes! $995 27

33. Victorian Pull Toy – adorable cabinet size accessory for all your little dolls to play on!

37. 5-1/2” Kewpie Serenade – guitar with bud vase, mint and signed. Sold. Velvet Steiff Frog – mint with tag – a real prince! $90. 4” Kewpie Crawler – mint baby with outstretched arms! $425

34&36. Naughty and Nice – the perfect mix in this rare 12” Hertel Schwab ‘Jubilee Baby’ mold ‘172’ – the preferred model with prominent tufts of molded hair, part pixie, part Kewpie, all perfect quality and mint incl. the original body too. You’ll smile too! $3500

38. You should see this magnificent 20” All Original Poured Wax in layer upon layer of her mint original presentation ensemble, baby blue PW’s, mint rooted mohair wig, a lavish estate doll, historic and lovely. Immaculate condition! $1100

35. Large selection of paper dolls and ephemera. 36

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Auction Team Breker May 24 Rock a Bye Mother and Baby

Gustave Vichy Coquette.

A Leopold Lambert “Espagnole” automaton with Jumeau bisque head.

Rare advertising automaton by Leopold Lambert.

This Swiss musical box offers music, dancing dolls and also dispenses candy!

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selection of ingenious mechanical toys and automata will be performing for the public at Auction Team Breker’s Spring sale of Mechanical Music, Antique Toys and Technology on 24 May 2014 in Cologne, Germany (please see advertisement on this outside back cover). Amongst the featured pieces are an all-original Leopold Lambert “Espagnole” automaton with Jumeau bisque head and a rare advertising automaton in the form of a black dancer by the same maker. It was designed to stand on a shop counter and rotate gently, powered by a long-duration spring that runs for 15 minutes on a single winding. The business card of the magasin he ‘worked’ for would have been displayed in the brass holder in the automaton’s left hand. The fashionable “Coquette” would have been a familiar ﬁgure in the grands magasins of the 19th century. This mechanical lady by Gustave Vichy powders her cheeks as she bends forwards to admire her French bisque features in the cheval looking glass. With less time for the world of fashion is the American “Rock a Bye” mother patented on April 8, 1908 and her German sister, the Sleeping Mother and Baby from around 1910. Childhood is also celebrated in the pair of clockwork walking dolls “Toto” and “Tata” based on the illustrations of French draughtsman Francisque Poulbot (1879-1946) who sketched French children orphaned by the Great War of 1914-1918. This rare pair comes from the collection of the Decamps family. A menagerie of mechanical animals includes a majestic Indian peacock, a bear harpist and a kitten in a milk churn licking his lips as greedily as the proverbial ‘cat who got the cream.’ Of particular interest to collectors of coin-activated, as well as mechanical, antiques is the superb Swiss “station” musical box providing audio, visual and sensory entertainment in the form of music, dancing dolls and candy from the original built-in sweet dispenser! A colourful procession of German pull-toys including several by Gottlieb Zinner & Söhne, rounds off the current auction highlights. To preview other new highlights, please visit www.Breker. com and www.youtube.com/auctionteambreker. The full catalogue is available online from early May onwards at www.liveauctioneers.com and in printed form from the headquarters in Cologne, Germany, on Tel: +49 2236 38 43 40 and E-mail: auction@breker.com OR: the international representatives listed in the ad on the outside back cover page. More Auction Gallery on page 58

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Theriault’s to Sell the Helen Welsh Collection May 24 and 25 in Las Vegas A

The very rare 21” Simon and Halbig 150 model is featured in the Helen Welsh collection.

Dainty, demure and ever so beautiful is the 11” Bebe Bru Brevete with original costume and signed Bru shoes.

He’s a fan of Colonel Teddy Roosevelt so he must own a teddy bear. The two models are fine examples from the K*R art character collection of Helen Welsh. 18

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s a young girl, Helen Welsh played endlessly with her toy kaleidoscope. She did not know that the kaleidoscope had been invented more than 150 years before by a Scottish astronomer, Sir David Brewster, not as a toy but as a scientific instrument. She did not know that the Greek word ‘kaleidoscope’ meant “observation of beautiful forms”. But she did know that she loved the way colors and shapes and elements of beauty could shape and re-create themselves over and over in an endless panoply of images. So it is little wonder that when the Pennsylvania woman took to doll collecting she was drawn to the dolls of Lenci, themselves a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors and patterns; over the next 20 years she assembled more than 60 rare examples. And it is little wonder that dolls of every genre - gorgeous French bebes, colorfully-costumed Kathe Kruse dolls, Steiff dolls and animals, German bisque art dolls whose varied faces were a veritable kaleidoscope of expression - intermingled with them. Sizes, shapes, colors of all kinds melded together in the Welsh collection, filling every room of her home, and given flavor by her related collections of antique purses, trinket boxes, and dainty accessories. All of these rare treasures will be presented at an important catalogued auction in Las Vegas on Saturday and Sunday, May 24 and 25 at the Bellagio Hotel. Appropriately titled “Kaleidoscope”, the twoday auction features more than 700 lots of dolls and related childhood ephemera. Many of these dolls were featured in an article in this magazine in January 2012, highlighted by the rare Simon and Halbig boy, model 150, in larger 21” size which appeared on the cover of that issue. A family of art character dolls by Kammer and Reinhardt are included in wonderful original costumes, among others a large model 114 boy whose rare antique pin proclaims his support of Colonel Teddy Roosevelt and a model 107 boy who solemnly awaits his wedding day, garbed in original formal attire including top hat. K*R models with unusual variations include the brown-complexioned 101 Marie, and the flocked hair 101X, Peter. Other rare characters include German bisque googlies such as all-bisque with jointed elbows and knees, Kestner models such as the elusive and endearing 239 toddler, and rarities from Simon and Halbig and Gebruder Heubach. French bebes include an all-original 11” Bebe Brevete by Bru, as well as a petite size 3 classic Bru Jne in wonderful Scottish costume, and a stunning 28” classic Bru Jne model. There are early-period fine bebes by Jumeau, Schmitt et Fils, Steiner, Gaultier, and Petit et Dumoutier, each in wonderful antique costumes. Allbisque dolls include rare mignonettes, as well as early German models including jointed knee models by Kestner. In her Pennsylvania home, Helen displayed

Left: He’s been waiting for his bride for more than a century. Some call him Karl, he’s the very rare 107 model by Kammer and Reinhardt, circa 1910, still wearing his original bridegroom costume. Above: Two’s company, but in this case three is not a crowd, for you can never have too many of the sought-after Series I Kathe Kruse dolls.

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So very rare is this duet of characters by Lenci in vibrant costumes, and with unique sculpting and painting of faces.

Three Lenci girls whose fancy original organdy dresses and pajamas have done little to dispel their fretful expressions, from the rare 1500 series.

Early block-letter bebes by Gaultier have been a favorite of the Pennsylvania collector who has examples in both large and small sizes. Imaginative designs of Lenci dolls just seem to inspire whimsical captions. What could you say about this rare pair from the Welsh Collection. 20

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Helen Welsh began her collection with early dolls, and in this miniature woodenbodied example she found a treasure.

If you seek Bebes Jumeau in original costumes, you will find them in the Helen Welsh collection, as well as wonderful doll furniture and accessories.

From the series of Asian children presented by Lenci is this rare couple, with all accessories including wooden lantern of the young lad.

the dolls in charming vignette scenes with doll-scaled furnishings and accessories of their era, such as a collection of grandfather clocks, rare cast iron fireplaces, and salesman sample chairs. American dolls have been of particular interest to Helen, particularly those from nearly regions such as her redoubtable collection of Kamkins dolls, two in their original boxes. And Schoenhuts, too, offer an impressive variety of faces. There are, too, dolls by Martha Chase and Ella Smith. All of the dolls are displayed in playful poses with early Steiff animals and toys. Paper mache dolls were among her first loves; during her 20 years of serious collecting, wonderful examples of early models from American and German firms were assembled, and the auction, as well, features a fine collection of Chinese ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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Rare all-bisque models including two examples by Kestner, the seated with jointed knees.

Door of Hope dolls, German bisque Asian characters, wonderful Sonneberg bisque dolls in the French manner, and numerous other treasures. In closing her collection, Helen Welsh lingers not only on memories of her favorite dolls, but also cherishes the occasions which brought the dolls to her home. She and her husband collected side by side; the

From the collection of Kamkins dolls in the Welsh Collection; not shown are two wonderful other examples in their original boxes (one with rare red hair).

Three colorful character dolls by Lenci, a veritable kaleidoscope of colors.

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Three examples from the exemplary collection of Sonneberg dolls in the French genre in the Welsh collection.

A Lenci bellhop stands at attention to the pair of stylishly-costumed children.

Lenci dolls, she confesses, were first his love and only later hers; he was drawn by their rich textures and colors. The couple traveled to auctions and shows, entertained fellow collectors, and always remained on the hunt for the curious and colorful, the best of the best, in childhood ephemera. So it is only fitting, she says, that her dolls will not only find new homes but that this will occur at a wonderful auction event that promises to create heart-warming memories for the new keeper of each doll. And, yes, she still has her childhood kaleidoscope.

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The House That Cried

“RESCUE ME!” By Susan Grimshaw

first saw this careworn British dollhouse a couple of years ago at the same auction where I purchased my Edwardian Villa featured in the July 2012 issue of this magazine. Due to a family obligation, I was unable to bid in person and I later learned it had been passed over. Since I knew the consignor, I attempted to purchase the house directly from her after the auction but because she had overpaid for it in the first place, her asking price was too high for me. Last autumn, it was offered again at the same auction house and I was the only interested bidder, so I took it home for less than $100. I understand why it had few admirers. It is somewhat large and bulky, which makes it less desirable to some collectors, and it was in pretty poor condition with missing or damaged windows, and at some point in its life, a quantity of blood red alkyd enamel paint had been spilled throughout all the rooms of the house. It was not a fixer-upper for the casual restorer but it seemed to cry out for someone to rescue it. I was charmed by the original wallpapers, the picture rail moldings, the generous size of the rooms and the wooden staircase, although at some Still awaiting further restoration, the exterior is covered with its original brick paper and cardboard slate shingles, but has lost some gutters and I believe there was once a thin garden wall encasing the front of the base. This front façade is fixed in place, leaving the back open, and the small oriel window above the door is a feature seen in dollhouse plans from the 1920’s and ‘30’s. I’ve seen some other dollhouses with this feature, but none exactly the same. This “before” photo only hints at the vandalism to which the house had been subjected in the past. You can see the broken upstairs windows and just a hint of the red paint disaster awaiting clean-up. But one can also discern original mellowed wallpapers and the generous number of Victorian fireplaces – no central heating here! The newel post and railing are missing in the foreground, but they left “shadows” that helped me replace them. I do love that little turn of the steps. 26

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The interior of the house features rooms that are spacious enough to easily accommodate typical 1/12 scale furniture and also pieces a little over that scale, although the stairs and hallways are a little narrow. It’s always pleasing when a dollhouse has a realistic, practical floor plan and for this period, it was still traditional to site a family parlor upstairs. I really like the cozy warmth that envelops the whole of the house and revealing the golden glow of the original oak floors and exposed ends of the walls enhances the effect.

point between the two auctions, it lost its newel post. I felt it was very evocative of the period between the two World Wars and it would provide a nice setting for some of my vintage furniture that was slightly larger in scale and didn’t fit in my other vintage English dollhouse. My first task was dealing with the splattered paint. Surprisingly, I was able to carefully chip it off the papered walls of some of the rooms, but the hallways and bedroom were too damaged to save. So I removed those damaged wallpapers and painted the walls of the hallways as a temporary measure until I find the right vintage paper. I also re-papered the bedroom with some vintage Laura Ashley wallpaper I had purchased a dozen years ago in England. I was able to chip the paint off the papers that were used as carpeting in the hallways and kitchen, with some areas of loss tolerated, but the floor papers in the other rooms were beyond saving. When I started removing those damaged floor papers in the other rooms, I was surprised to find the floors, as well as the walls, were made

I used old cigar box mahogany to replace the missing stair railing in the foreground. It was just too difficult to save the floral paper that covered the stairs while removing the paint, so I stripped it down to the bare wood and gave it a coat of satin varnish afterwards. The inner walls of the house are made from thin plywood which has warped a little with time, but the floors and outer walls are solid oak and yes, it weighs a lot!

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The upper hallway contains a private area for using the candlestick telephone. The table is German while the chair is English and a product of the Westacre Village enterprise. The wall lamp is painted metal and a perfect period accessory. The gold paper carpet is original to the house. The dining room accommodates one of my largest tables with ease. The chairs are vintage Victorians made by Mell Prescott and are slightly overscale – I was just waiting for a house with rooms big enough to accommodate her furniture! The vintage oak dresser on the right was purchased in Staffordshire when I lived in England, while the Triang floral firescreen and Westacre painted folding screen came out of a furnished Tynietoy Mansion I bought in 2012. They had been purchased for the original owner when she was a girl and her parents travelled to England in the late 1930’s. I made the draperies from Liberty fabric I purchased many years ago on my first visit to London. Artwork in this room includes two original watercolors by British artist David Williams. I was able to get the paint off the paper floor carpet in the kitchen and I can live with the small areas of loss along the edges. This room is very deep and the far end could be pretty dark so I chose warm pink floral fabric for the shorter curtains. The limed oak wheel-back chair is English and slightly overscaled, as are the vintage ladderback chairs near the window. The sink is German as are the antique treenware plates in the English plate rack above. A vintage coffee grinder is mounted on the wall nearby.

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from heavy oak that had been painted a ﬂat brown throughout the house, as had the windows, door frames and picture rails. It took time, but I chemically stripped the paint from the ﬂoors, and all the other woodwork trim and it came up beautifully. The staircase was especially tricky, but worth the effort. The damaged and missing windows were repaired and replaced, and covered with curtains made from cozy cotton prints – I wanted this house to present as a warm, middle class suburban home from the early 20th century, with a few family heirlooms handed down over the years. I had no problem

The wallpaper in the parlor was stained and torn in some places and I had to over-paint those areas to make it presentable. A number of pieces in this room came with my Tynietoy mansion and since they were not actually Tynietoy, I put them aside until this house came into my possession. The red velvet sofa is one such piece while the vintage upholstered armchairs came from another source. In excellent condition, they appear to be homemade but very nice quality. The lamp with hand-painted lampshade is Westacre, as is the little bookstand filled with volumes atop the early Lynnfield radio – one of my earliest purchases as a teenager. Among the vintage English items in this room are the delicate magazine stand and the Dol-Toi fireplace fender covered with leatherette. The original wallpaper in the bedroom was the same as that in the parlor, but too damaged to preserve, so I covered the wall with the vintage Laura Ashley floral paper purchased when I lived in England – the entire roll was only one pound! I made the wire “brass” bed when I was a teenager and fashioned the patchwork quilt from antique scraps. The curtain fabric complements the vintage painted armchair and an old radio with attached speaker rests on a blanket chest in front of the reconstructed window. A coveted Westacre painted bookcase is placed beside the bed and contains all of its original books. Keeping with a floral motif throughout the room, the wall shown here is decorated with an embroidered floral pin, an antique watercolor of a basket of flowers, and over the bed, a tinsel picture in a daguerreotype frame, borrowed from an Alice Steele roombox. The upholstered chaise in the background came with the floral chairs in the parlor. Over the bedroom’s fireplace, I hung this small piece of embroidery about 2” square. It was probably originally on the cover of a powder compact and I never knew what to do with it until I found this tiny frame that was exactly the right size. I feel it reflects the nostalgia that was so popular in that era.

furnishing the house with things I had stored away over time and after about a month of steady work, the project was far enough along that I could vacuum up the steel wool ﬁlings and furnish the house. While a little attention is still needed on the exterior such as missing gutters and chimney pipes, I seldom hesitate to furnish interiors as soon as possible, even if it means using a few temporary pieces until the right thing comes along. Some of the artwork is of more recent manufacture, as are some chandeliers, but this is a house that need not look like a museum piece. Indeed, it reminds me of a pet of uncertain pedigree adopted from an animal shelter and happy indeed to have a new mistress! ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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20” Kestner 167 9 1/2 , blue sleep eyes, plaster pate, HH wig, antique shoes, nice body $575. 8 ½” Hertel Schwab & Co 150 Baby w o/c mouth, brown sleep eyes, HH wig, antique clothing & bonnet $185.

14 ½” All Original F-3, Factory Fuisseaux Baudour Belgium 1909 - 1913, beautifully painted bisque face with blue detailed eyes, original HH wig on skull cap, dress faded, shoulder plate marked F3 $1695.

19 ½” Monica 1940’s composition girl w/ inserted human hair wig in folk costume with rick rack & braid trim, blue hand painted eyes $425.

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20” Wax possibly Montanari – stamp on body, from Emma S. Windsor, Kindergarten, Toy & Crawling Rug Depot, 58 Barrington Rd, South Kensington, S.W., blue pw eyes, inserted brunette HH wig (sparse in back), clean body, wax coloring scuffed $1095.

17” C/M Eden Bebe, blue pw eyes, HH wig, pierced ears, antique undergarments $1695.

21 ½” K * R 101 “Peter” with professional repair on head, it appears left side by ear, right side of ear, forehead & front of neck, facial features are all original, fur wig $2150.

18 ½” Kestner “S”, blue sleep eyes, original plaster pate, mohair wig, antique clothing & leather shoes, left pinkie as is $595. 25” Sonneberg Tauﬂing – Motschmann Baby 1850-70, head has had work done on both side seams, bodies cloth has had some mending, chips at head neck rim, nice arms & legs, jointed anklets & wrists $695.

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29” 109 Handwerck, brown sleep eyes, HH wig, pierced ears, 2 glass teeth $525. 7” Pair of All Bisques marked Germany 6543, brown sleep eyes, blond mohair wigs, molded shoes & socks $325. pair 7 ½” Heubach 7647 Boy w/ blue intaglio eyes & smile, rub on right cheek, nice molding $565.

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Societe Des Bebes Jumeaux by Dominique Pennegues

Above: Bébé Jumeaux. Molded felt mask and stuffed felt back head. Blue glass eyes with metal lids and human eyelashes. Red mohair wig. Two toned red lips. Close painted mouth. Says “mama.” 35 cm. Circa 1924+ Private collection. France. Left: Vintage photo published in 1923 Femina showing a young boy and his large Benjamin Rabier stuffed cloth dog.

Below: Patent photo of “a cloth doll with sleeping eyes” filed by S.F.B.J. in April 1924. Note the open/close mouth showing teeth. This detail does not appear on the dolls we have examined.

he rage for cloth dolls began in France after Stefania Lazarska had brought them into fashion and continued even more after Elena König started making all felt Lenci dolls in 1919. Emile Lang was already well-known since 1915 for his very artistic cloth dolls and stuffed animals created by well-known artists such as Jean Ray, Albert Guillaume and Benjamin Rabier. He produced stuffed felt animals during WWI, and had already ﬁled patents to improve the making of stuffed cloth dolls and toys. The S.F.B.J. needed to become competitive in the cloth doll and toy market and made an agreement in 1923 with Lang for the making of stuffed cloth animals and dolls. The stuffed animals created by Benjamin Rabier, the artist’s Parisian dolls created by Jean Ray and those created by Beatrice Mallet who had formerly been produced by E. Lang until 1922 became the exclusivity of the S.F.B.J. by 1923. ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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“Le Printemps” 1925. The doll is named “Poupée Jumeau” without an x. The chemise has a different lace.

“Le Printemps” 1924: this “Bébé Jumeaux” wears the chemise seen in the patent photo.

Bébé Jumeaux with same chemise as the one shown in the 1925 Le Printemps catalogue. Molded felt mask and stuffed felt back head. Blue glass sleeping eyes with metal lids, human upper eyelashes and painted lower ones. Red dots in the corner of the eyes. Note the painted close mouth, different from the patented model. Molded ears. Vertical seam on the neck. Blond mohair wig. Bow is missing. Molded felt body and stuffed felt limbs. Mitten type hands. Mama voice. 35 cm. Circa 1925. Courtesy Musée de la Poupée Paris. 32

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A new company was created for the production of cloth dolls and toys named “Société des Bébés Jumeaux” with its own factory at 43 rue Corne-de-Cerf in Lyon. The trademark for the cloth dolls was “Bébés Jumeaux” to benefit from the renown of the famous name. The letter “x” was probably selected to make a difference between the two productions. S.F.B.J. continued using the trademark “Jumeau” for some of its dolls until the 1950’s, and even some of the cloth dolls seen in Parisian store catalogs, which should have been advertised as “Bébés Jumeaux,” were listed as “Poupée Jumeau.” Until 1924, the S.F.B.J. cloth doll bodies we have been studying are of the classic type, with stuffed a cloth trunk and limbs. S.F.B.J. had filed a patent for a new machine for stuffing toys the same year. Heads were molded cloth or paper mache with hand painted or printed features. New patents for a cloth doll with sleeping eyes were filed by the S.F.B.J. in April 1924 and in December 1924 for improvement in eyelids. Paris store catalogues of the same year showed some of these dolls made of felt, with sleeping glass eyes and metal lids with human eyelashes. The head and trunk are molded felt. The molded trunk is made in two parts and glued together as explained in 1915 Lang’s patent. It is interesting to note that Lenci’s dolls still had a stuffed trunk at that time, and that for this particularity, the Bébés Jumeaux were far ahead of their time. Their limbs are stuffed felt. Hands are of the mitten type as are Lenci’s of the period. However, unlike Lenci dolls, the ears are molded. The felt used is a surprising hot pink color. The few models we have seen have blue

glass eyes, blond eyelashes, and mohair wigs of different colors. These modern Bébés Jumeaux were more expensive than the bisque head dolls from the same company: a 45 cm Bébé Jumeaux sold for 65 fr while a bisque head S.F.B.J. doll of the same size sold for 49 fr. By 1925, Bon Marché proposed the 38cm model for 82 fr and 102 fr for the taller one. This could be the explanation why these dolls do not seem to have had a lot of success as very few are found in the collecting world today. We recently found a totally unknown model of the rare sleeping eyes Bébé Jumeaux. This one is very different from the model patented in 1924, as only the sleeping eye mechanism remains the same. The slim silhouette indicates the doll represents a young girl, while the previous Bébés had the chubby body of a toddler. The felt used is no longer “hot pink” but ﬂeshcolored, and the neck of this very rare doll does not show a vertical seam, like all other cloth dolls do, but instead the two borders of the felt are glued together, after Lang’s invention patented in 1915. Also, the body is stuffed and not molded, with the top of the trunk in felt and the lower part of the body in cotton. The major difference with the patented model, other than the slim silhouette, is the type of hands with separate ﬁngers, like the Lenci dolls from 1926 on. This could allow us to date the doll from same period. Also, the clothing is more elaborate than those of the 1924 patent model, and could no longer be confused with Lenci dolls. By the end of the 30’s, S.F.B.J. did not reach the success with their cloth dolls that La Venus, La Nicette or Raynal dolls had achieved. They tried to be more

Bébé Jumeaux. Blue glass sleeping eyes. Red mohair wig with bangs. Original all felt rich clothing, including large hat and shoes. Same patented model as the previous one but larger, this one measures 42 cm. Mama voice. Circa 1925. Private collection. France.

Bébé Jumeaux. Nude. Note the short legs giving the doll the appearance of a toddler. Hot pink color of the felt has faded where it was not covered. The original coloring is rarely seen on felt dolls of this period.

Small and large Bébés Jumeaux. 38 and 42 cm. Note the small difference in the coloring of the felt. Courtesy Musée de la Poupée (left), private collection (right).

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Bébé Jumeaux. Rare model (only one found to date) with different head mold and body. Felt head is molded out of a single piece of felt, front and back are both molded, unlike the other models which have a molded face and a stuffed back head. The two sides of the felt are glued at the neck instead of a seam, as proposed by E. Lang in his 1915 patent. Hands have separate fingers, like Lenci dolls from 1926 and after. Golden blond mohair wig. Blue glass sleeping eyes. Human upper eyelashes, painted lower ones. Red dots in the corner of the eyes. Note the two pale pink dots on the lower lip. Molded ears. Original rich clothing consisting of a knitted hat and jumper with orange felt ribbon. Pleated white felt skirt, and white felt gaiters. Light pink shoes. 42 cm. Circa 1926. Private collection. France.

Bébé Jumeaux. Nude. Note: the body is made differently from the patented model. It is not molded but stuffed, and only the upper torso is felt, the lower part of the body is stuffed cotton.

Bébé Jumeaux in white cotton and lace underwear. Note the slim silhouette, with long legs, different from the patented model with a toddler look.

Detail of the dress.

Details of the hand with separate fingers.

Bébé Jumeaux. Mold 247. Flocked pressed carton head with a felt appearance, hand painted features with large blue eyes and molded open/close mouth. Golden brown mohair wig. Stuffed cloth body. 45 cm. Circa 1930. Private collection France. 34

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competitive by producing a model “La Venus” look-a-like head with hand painted features. The heads were first made of rhodoid (non flammable celluloid) on a stuffed cloth body. Later, they were made of composition, on an all articulated wooden body. Those dolls are hard to find today and eminently desirable to the very few collectors who know their origin. Like other French cloth dolls makers, S.F.B.J. had to stop making cloth dolls during WWII as the use of cloth to make toys had become forbidden during war time. They did not resume their production when WWII ended. Bébé Jumeaux. Pressed carton head marked SFBJ on the neck. Hand painted features. Blue eyes. Blond mohair wig. Cloth body. Original hot pink felt clothing. 38 cm. Private collection. France.

Bébé Jumeaux. Composition head. Hand painted features with brown eyes. Light brown mohair wig. This head is mostly similar to the well- known “La Vénus” mold produced from 1932 until 1940. This rare S.F.B.J. head can be found made of rhodoid (unflammable celluloid) with a cloth body, or in composition with an all articulated wooden body. Here, it is costumed as an Alsatian girl. 38 cm. Circa 1938+. Private collection. U.S.A.

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Lady with Hummingbirds Automaton - Exquisite, rare faced beauty captured in automaton by Roullet & Decamps 25” tall. A rare portrait face made by Jumeau company w/ huge darkly lined sapphire blue eyes that engulf you. Coral earrings match the tint of her lips. Wonderful silk taffeta court dress made with shimmering colors match the iridescence of real hummingbirds she tenderly holds. Please call for details~

Rare kid over wood body French Fashion~ Our Mademoiselle has a beautiful face with large, serene spiral enamel blue eyes; in excellent condition. She bears the stamp of Au Paradis des Enfant Perreau Fils Paris, a shop that sold lavish, high end toys on rue du Rivoli. Wonderful articulated kid over wood body with legs able to assume a natural seated position. Her arms are graced with exceptionally pretty bisque forearms with fine attention to the detail of the fingers and pose to enable easy positioning of accessories or props. Her beautiful swivel head is marked 4 and crowned with original long blonde mohair wig swept up with a pretty gold metal comb. This very rare doll awaits. Please call~

An exceptional Huret from the early years with a dear face and many enchanting attributes including her original signed Huret gutta percha body (albeit some restoration), superbly painted, glazed shoulderhead with sensitively rendered eyes and lips, espresso pique ensemble with complex soutache design, original shoes and bag and exquisite presence. 17” tall. Bisque is perfect. Please email or call~

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Very beautiful half doll with perfect bisque and serene presence. 5.5” from waist to head. 10.5” total. $525~

Adorable 6.5” all bisque Mignonette in excellent condition, with rare brown boots and brown eyes in all original costume of gold and bronzed silk with brown and cinnamon accents and adorable chapeau. Early labrador included. Excellent, adorable and ready to sneak into your pocket! $2450~

A very endearing and beautiful 15” Jumeau Poupee with huge sky-blue eyes rimmed with sweeping lashes. Bestowed with beautiful bisque expertly tinted a pale shade of creamy rose with a deeper bloom in her full lips. Her perfect swivel head and shoulder plate rests on original gussetted kid body with wired fingers. Mademoiselle is endowed with an original white and green polka dot summer ensemble, antique leather boots, antique silk fringed chapeau and original summer cape with pom decoration. Beautiful upswept wig, blue glass earrings and picnic basket complete her. $5800~

Creating A Body For My De Fuisseaux By Sherry Smith s I was perusing the Internet about two years ago, a face suddenly caught my attention. It was a De Fuisseaux, F.1. head, circa 1909. As a collector of very early dolls, I usually would not have bought something from this era. Nevertheless, I was captivated. So, after many emails with the seller, I bought her. Unwrapping her with much anticipation, she emerged even more beautiful than her photos. Research has always been a huge part of collecting for me, so I set out to learn as much as I could about De Fuisseaux dolls, which, turns out to be very little, as much of the history was destroyed during WWI. I was fortunate enough to make contact with Jacques and Patricia, who live in Belgium and are collectors of De Fuisseaux items, including the dolls. They have been kind enough to share their information and photos with me. Under Nicolas, then his wife, followed by their son, Fernand and, during what is called the De Fuisseaux Period (18471927), the factory made everyday household items, all types of insulators for electric bells, telephone and telegraph lines, lighting and power transport and items for spinning mills, chemists, perfumeries, and hairdressers. In 1898, the company changed its name to Baudour Ceramics Products.

My dollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head is 5.5 inches tall and is only marked F.1. on the back. Photos courtesy of Patricia Snyder

Left: Head marked D.F. B. F. 1. This doll head is the same size as my example. Photo courtesy of Jacques and Patricia, Belgique

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These two examples are both marked F2.

Photos courtesy Jacques and Patricia, Belgique

De Fuisseaux is the oldest known doll factory in Baudour, Belgium. It produced bisque heads, just before and during World War I, specifically 1909-1913. They only made heads and sold them to craftsmen who assembled them to their own taste, as children and folk people. Various marks are found: F.1., F.2., F.3., D.F. B. Belgique and De Fuisseaux Baudour Belgique. They range in size from about two inches to five and half inches tall. Some are socket heads, meant for some type of composition body and the others are shoulder heads. As the factory did not make bodies, the heads have been found on many different styles. The quality of bisque varies. Most are highly colored and quite ruddy in appearance. Others are strikingly beautiful with lovely bisque. Some have glass eyes, but most have painted eyes. The eyes on the F.1, 2 and 3 shoulder heads have striking bluish/green eyes with mauve eye shadow and black eyeliner. Their eyebrows are varying shades of reds and browns and golden yellow. Their cheeks are quite pink. Some are highly freckled. Many of the character heads have blackish eyebrows. They are definitely unique heads.

Photo courtesy Laurie Christman

Marked F3 this is a rare candy container. Photos courtesy Jacques and Patricia, Belgique.

Another lovely doll marked F3. Photo courtesy Laurie Christman

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A large chunk of basswood was, after months of carving and sanding turned into a beautiful body for my De Fuisseaux head. The lower bisque arms are from a reproduction A. Marque mold.

The examples shown here are all of the F series, 1, 2 or 3, the 1 being the largest of the molds. These heads have been found on cloth and kid bodies and alone. Although the molds are very similar, the painting of the features and the quality of the bisque varies greatly. Some have very freckled bisque and are more highly colored with more mauve eye accents and others have even and paler colored bisque. After trying, unsuccessfully, to find a proper fitting body for my F1, now named Marie, after my beloved Grandmother, who was born in 1898, I decided to carve a wooden body for her with bisque arms. My friend, Linda Marx, obtained a mold for a pair of A. Marque arms for me and hand tinted the bisque, using photos of Marie’s head. She drilled holes in the elbow sockets, which allowed me to peg them to wood upper arms. The shoulder plates of these dolls are very narrow and closed in where the shoulders end. I had noticed that the clothes on dressed F’s often looked droopy at the shoulders. It finally dawned on me that the mold did not allow for the rounded, upper part of the shoulder. So, in designing the upper wooden arms, I added this part to meet with her breast plate. Finally, the sleeves would look correct!

It took many months of carving and sanding, but she was finally completed in October 2013, over a 100 years after her head was made! During the making of the body, I collected period pieces of clothing and accessories for her, not knowing if they would fit! When I sat her in the chair for the first time, her bent knees fit perfectly on the edge! I was thrilled. Her little dog, Ted, was bought for her, by my husband, Allan Mason, who helped me mentally and physically with this project, urging me to keep going! It’s been a wonderful rewarding journey, from a lovely head and a big block of basswood to a complete doll! Many thanks to Pat Snyder for the photos of Marie’s head that began this journey, to Allan Mason, my husband, who helped me through the whole process and photographed Marie, to Laurie Christman for the photos of her dolls, to Jacques and Patricia for sharing the history of the De Fuisseaux Factory and their dolls and to Lynda Marx for the beautifully tinted arms. ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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12-1/2“ Kestner A.T.. DK br. eyes. Long French blonde human hair wig. Looks just like the A.T. you always wanted. Blue silk dress with lace overlay. Flowers on lace pink silk cumber bun. Flowered hat with leaves. Old white rouched socks. Blue French shoes with rosettes. $ 6,850. 6” French Mignonette. CM. Rare dome head. Rare bare feet. Pale bisque. Bl. eyes. Smiling lips. Superb modeling. Long blonde mohair wig. Early peg strung. Cupped hands. Aqua silk coat dress. Old undergarments. Mustard colored hat with aqua silk ribbon/bow around brim giving the doll extra clout. The most beautiful Mignonette I have ever seen. $ 3,625.

5” Straw presentation box with orig. 4” doll. Doll has red mohair wig with blue glass eyes. Jointed arms and legs. Lace silk dress. with undergarments. Orig. extra clothes in lid. Doll has white painted stockings with black one strap heels. Top of box has large pink and green silk rose. A BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATON SET. $ 850. 22” Kestner 154. Blue glass eyes. Long lashes. OM with upper teeth. Dimple in chin. Light blonde mohair wig. Pale bisque. Wears fabulous pink satin dress with large amts. of beading with br. lace down front and collar. Also to top it off this doll wears a pink and lace presentation hat that has beading and a large bow. $ 875. 4” French Mignonette. Bl. glass eyes. Long lashes. Superb modeling on such a sm. doll. All bisque. Painted long stockings with black double strap heels. Blonde hair. Wears red silk dress with lace trim. Cream apron. Sweet beret. $ 1,975

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A Cover Girl by Ursula Mertz Photos by Christopher Partridge

hen looking through a stack of old magazines, I made a special discovery. I could not believe my eyes. There from the front cover of The Household Magazine, one of my dolls by the name of Sis smiled at me! There was no doubt that it was my doll. She was identical, right down to the five rust-colored wool pigtails tied with narrow, green ribbons. Even though my doll is well marked, she has always been somewhat of an enigma. Would the magazine have some answers? “Sis” was designed by Grace Drayton and sold by the Averill Manufacturing Company of New York City. Among other offerings, her name was listed on a full- page ad in the trade magazine Playthings of August 1924. Why was she called “Sis” and given five real pigtails? When thinking of the name “Sis” and pigtails, the then popular comedienne Sis Hopkins came to mind. She was often pictured with a similar hairdo. Could there be a connection? Some twelve years earlier, in 1912, the E. I. Horsman firm had sold a Sis Hopkins doll. An extensive search turned up no proof, and the matter was put aside.

Front cover: “The Household Magazine,” May 1928, Vol. 28, No. 5 – Ten Cents signed Davis

Now, after having paid for the magazine, I eagerly leafed through it but could not ﬁnd any information. Surely, the artist who painted that adorable cover picture must have had a reason for picking my doll. Or, the magazine could have commissioned the subject. The doll must have been important to someone for some reason. I couldn’t wait to get home to ﬁnd out. Again I was disappointed. The magazine did not reveal the tiniest clue about my doll’s identity or the reason why she was pictured on that cover. While I had not found what I was looking for, I had actually become quite familiar with the contents of the magazine. It was the May issue of 1928. Attention was paid to Mother’s Day with articles and poems. The “Whimsical Story of a FraidCat” prominently featured on the bottom of the cover did not include the doll, as I had hoped but turned out to be just another “to be continued” story of no particular consequence. 13” “Sis” marked on shoulder plate: G. G. Drayton // ©, - Stamp on cloth body: Genuine // Madame Hendren // Doll // 814 C // Made in U.S.A. – Hangtag is marked: Genuine Madame Hendren Doll (in circle) // “Sis” // design Patented // Dolly Dingle // By G. G. Drayton. Composition shoulder head and arms to above the elbow. Cloth body and limbs, stitched hip joints. Molded, painted features and hair. Five holes have been drilled into the head to accommodate five rust colored wool pigtails tied with narrow green ribbons. All original clothes, including shoes and socks. ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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Home improvements were featured and household hints in addition to sewing patterns. One article dealt with the importance of homogenized milk, and expressing the hope that safe milk would soon be available throughout the country and not just in the larger cities. Who would have thought that safe milk was not a staple for everybody in 1928? What really held my attention and gave one a glimpse into life some 85 years ago were the ads for various products, from Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum to kitchen stoves, to cars. “For Economical Transportation CHEVROLET The World’s Most Luxurious Low-Priced Automobile.” Pictured is a car that still looks like a Model T and cost all of $585. A full-page ad praised Listerine by the Lambert Pharmaceutical Company of St. Louis. They claimed that dandruff may lead to baldness and that children get it from contact with others. Listerine would be the cure. Morton’s Iodized Salt stated that children everywhere are making higher grades thanks to the help of this healthy salt (no goiters). “Quick Mother’s Oats” delivered dishes right in the package. These were just a few of the advertisements seen. It was amazing to realize how many of the trade mark products listed still exist today. While we know that advertising copy exaggerates, nowadays it is not nearly as extravagant in its claims as some of the text quoted. Times have changed. Sis has changed a little, but not much. She has survived those approximately 90 years with her big smile intact and all ﬁve pigtails in place including those tiny green ribbon ties. She seems quite proud of herself to once have been a cover girl. Though, we may never ﬁnd out why she was named “Sis.”

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Close up of Sis.

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Dressing Dolls in the Sonneberg Area of Germany Part II By Mary Krombholz

he Ernst Winkler doll factory in Sonneberg made this bisque socket-head doll dressed in an original wig, felt hat, clothing and shoes (1). The factory, founded in 1903, was sold to Julius Rothschild in 1927. The back of the head is marked: W//Germany//10/0. This marking is pictured on page 336 of the Ciesliks’ German Doll Encyclopedia. The Winkler doll factory was one of hundreds of doll factories which once made dolls in Sonneberg. This 11-inch Cymbalier doll (2), with clown-like facial modeling and original cotton clothing, is marked: AG. The clown facial painting is very similar to the facial painting on a doll in my collection marked with the Gebrueder Knoch mold number 193. This circa 1912 clown doll has a rectangular wooden body with wooden arms and legs. The cymbals come together when the mechanism in the torso is pressed. The Knoch porcelain factory made bisque doll heads in Neustadt, Thuringia from 1887 until 1919, when the factory was purchased by the Max Oscar Arnold doll factory. A bisque socket-head character doll, circa 1912, was made by the Swaine porcelain factory (3). The doll is wearing an original dress and underwear. The back of the head is marked: D.I.//4 above the Swaine green-stamped circle trademark. The old Swaine & Co. porcelain factory building is still

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standing in Huttensteinach, a suburb of Koeppelsdorf and Sonneberg. The factory displayed character dolls at their Leipzig Fair booth only during the years 1910-1913. The Goebel porcelain factory made this 6-inch bisque socket-head doll circa 1912 (4). The colors on the original dress are similar to the colors used to paint the molded flowers decorating the doll’s center-parted hairstyle. The Wm. Und F. & W. Goebel porcelain factory founded their factory in Oeslau, Germany in 1879. The factory produced their first bisque doll heads in 1887, and continued to make bisque-head dolls through the 1930s. The back of the head is marked: Goebel Bee (mark)//R23/x. A Gebrueder Heubach character boy (5) is tied inside his original cardboard box filled with excelsior. The German words printed in a semi-circle on the box lid translate as follows: “Think of Our War Orphans! We Only Have One Will: To Win or Die.” The bisque head on the 10-inch doll, circa 1912, is marked with the mold number 7603. The original clothing, hat and boots are similar to the clothing worn by the boy pictured on the cover of the box. This 23-inch Schoenau & Hoffmeister bisquehead doll (6) is tied inside her original cardboard box marked “Rosebud.” The box is made of heavy cardboard and it is well stapled at each corner. The original redand-white label is in excellent condition. The doll is lying on a paper mattress filled with straw. This type of paper cushion protected dolls from breakage during

5 4 6 shipment to their ďŹ nal destinations. The doll, marked: S (PB inside Star) H//5200//1906, is wearing an original wig, lace-trimmed underwear, silk dress, socks and boots. This 1911 archival photograph, which has been hand colored, pictures two boys and a male worker making cardboard boxes (below). Box making was a very important part of the overall production of Thuringian dolls. The 1996 book by Angelika Tessmer titled Sonneberg Geschichten, Von Puppen, Griffeln und Kuckuckspfeifen (Sonneberg Stories of Dolls, Slate Pencils and Cuckoo Whistles) provides the following words told by the son of a box maker, which graphically describe Sonneberg box making as it is pictured in this photograph: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The box maker was a profession you had to learn. Mainly boys were trained in the doll factory because the work was very hard and space consuming.

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Only a few box makers worked from their home factories and supplied the doll makers, the manufacturers of Christmas tree ornaments and toy makers in our town. I started my work in the company Martin Eichhorn in Sonneberg after graduating from school. Here dolls were produced and packed in cartons for shipping. We bonded pieces of cardboard in all sizes, stapled the corners and added lining paper as well as labels. The paper liners were often colorful or edged with lace paper borders in order to catch the attention of buyers in shops and department stores. We cut the forms for the boxes from big pieces of cardboard with big punching machines. Then we seamed and folded the edges. With a large staple machine we connected the matching cardboard pieces together.

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The women sewed the dolls with needles and thread onto the back wall of the box. It was important that the stitches would not disturb the overall impression of the doll. The stitches also had to give the doll enough stability that the sleeping-eye mechanism, the clothing and hair would not get damaged during transport. Often the dolls had to take long trips on ships and roads in order to reach their new owners in America or England.â&#x20AC;? A 13-inch Gebrueder Heubach character boy (7), dressed in original underwear, cotton jacket and pants, is stroking the head of a 5-inch glazed-porcelain dog marked with the blue-stamped Heubach Sunburst trademark. The dollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bisque socket head, circa 1912, is marked: 6//Germany. This original 11-inch Armand Marseille heart-shaped felt novelty purse (8) contains a bisque shoulder head, circa 1901, marked: Lilly//11/0. The doll is wearing an original wig and felt hat trimmed with silk bows. Thuringian all-bisque dolls sold well in American retail

stores because they were appealing as well as inexpensive. This 4-inch all-bisque unmarked doll (9) is wearing an original dress and hat made of crepe paper. Dressing a doll in crepe paper rather than fabric lowered the overall cost of a dressed doll. This 11-inch bisque-head Googly doll (10), dressed in original clothing, was made by the Armand Marseille porcelain factory in Koeppelsdorf, a suburb of Sonneberg. The back of the circa 1914 head is marked: Germany//323//A.3/0.M. The family of Sonneberg home-trade workers, pictured in this 1910 hand-colored archival photograph (left), is making composition bodies which resemble the toddler body on the bisque-head Googly doll in the preceding photograph. The six children pictured are helping their parents make composition doll bodies. According to the Ciesliks’ research, on January 1, 1904, the “Act on the Work of Children” was passed. Beginning on this date the following work was ofﬁcially allowed in the Thuringian doll and toy industry for children from the age of 8 on: “Painting and brushing of doll-body joints; sorting and inserting of doll eyes; blowing of doll eyes by bellows; sewing, crocheting and knitting of doll dresses; sewing of cloth doll bodies; making curls for the doll wigs as long as cleaned hair of wool or mohair was used; and packing the dolls in paper boxes.” The Ernst Heubach porcelain factory in Koeppelsdorf made this 9½-inch bisque socket-head doll circa 1914 (11). The doll is wearing an original wig, hat, underwear, blouse, dress, lace-trimmed apron and bead necklace. The bisque head is marked: Heubach.Koepplesdorf//250.14/0//Germany. Two Ernst Heubach bisque socket heads (12) have identical incised marks which read: Heubach Koeppelsdorf//250.10/0//Germany. The 8-inch dolls, circa 1914, are wearing original wigs, underwear, clothing, socks and shoes. The doll on the right is wearing clothing which resembles a Dutch Volendam regional costume. This bisque socket-head doll is marked: Heubach Koeppelsdorf//250.16/0// Germany (13). The 8-inch doll is wearing an original braided wig, underwear, blouse, scarf, vest and skirt. According to a former Heubach employee, home workers in the Sonneberg area often supplied the wigs, shoes, dresses and

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accessories in order for complete dolls to be assembled inside the Ernst Heubach doll and porcelain factory in Koeppelsdorf. These twelve, 4-inch all-bisque Hertwig dolls with molded hair are still tied inside an original factory box (14). The brightly colored tissue paper is meant to attract the attention of buyers visiting the Hertwig factory sample rooms. Seven of the dolls are dressed in felt jackets and pants while the other ﬁve dolls are dressed in sailor-type cotton jackets and pants. Five, circa 1900, Hertwig shoulder-head dolls, wearing bonnets and hats, are still tied inside an original cardboard box (15). The dolls measure about 7 inches in height and are wearing original underwear, slips and dresses made by Katzhuette home workers. The dresses vary slightly in style and trimming details. The porcelain bonnets, hats and boots vary in color and coordinate with the original clothing. These two bisque socket-head dolls (16), pictured in a 1915 Butler Brothers Catalog, are dressed in original wigs, hats, underwear and clothing. They were made by the Dressel doll factory in Sonneberg. The 6½-inch girl is marked: I/15/0 and the 5½-inch boy is marked: I/13/0. A light-brown bisque socket-head was made by the Schoenau & Hoffmeister porcelain factory circa 1920 (17). The 6-inch doll, marked: Germany//S(PB inside Star)H//Hanna//12/0/ is dressed in an original wig, cotton blouse, underpants, grass skirt and lei. This bisque socket-head Googly doll (18), marked: 208.12/0//W&S, was sold by the Walther & Sohn doll factory, which was located in Oeslau, Thuringia. According to the Ciesliks’ research, the doll factory was founded in 1908 and advertised the following products in 1941: “Doll heads, baby heads and bathing dolls.” The doll is wearing an original mohair wig, hat, underwear, cotton dress and coat. This 10-inch, circa 1920 doll (19) was made by the Ernst Heubach porcelain factory in Koeppelsdorf. It is wearing an original mohair wig, hat, underwear, dress and jacket. The bisque socket head is marked: Heubach.Koeppelsdorf.//320.12.0//Germany. The facial modeling includes pierced nostrils. The Armand Marseille porcelain factory made this bisque socket-head Googly doll (20), circa 1925, marked: A.253.M//Nobbi Kid//Reg.U.S.Pat.off// Germany//10/0 for the New York based doll importers, George Borgfeldt & Co. All of the Marseille #253 mold-number heads were made for Borgfeldt. The doll is wearing an original mohair wig, underwear and sleeveless cotton dress. An 8-inch bisque-socket head doll, wearing an original wig, hat, underwear and lace-trimmed baby dress (21), was made by the Armand Marseille porcelain factory circa 1925. The bisque head is marked: Armand Marseille//Germany//990.//A.8/0.M. This 1911 sample-room photograph (right), which has been hand colored, pictures completed dolls ready to be purchased by buyers from all over the world. According to the Ciesliks’ research in their German Doll Encyclopedia, “the Dressel doll factory in Sonneberg

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was supplied by small factories and many home-trade workers which helped the doll factory to produce the incredible assortment of 20,000 to 30,000 different dolls and toys in their sample rooms.â&#x20AC;? This 10Â˝-inch bisque socket-head Googly doll (22), made by the Ernst Heubach porcelain factory in Koeppelsdorf, is wearing an original wig, velvet jacket and pants, as well as original socks and shoes. The character head, circa 1926, is marked: Heubach. Koeppelsdorf//417-10/0//Germany. Credits: Mary Krombholz Doll and Archival Paper Collection. Doll Photographs by Tony Arrasmith. Computer Colorization of Archival Photographs by Paul Brinkdopke.

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hope your readers can help me identify these artist dolls. They are about 9 1/2” tall and are made of a plaster/ composition type material. There are no markings on them except for their paper tags. They were part of an old-time collector’s things and I’m guessing 1940’s. Here’s another doll I’d love to ﬁnd out about. She is all hand carved wood and totally jointed at neck, hips, knees, and shoulders. She is in her wooden rocking chair that is made of clothespins. She has a small paper label stitched to her skirt that says Aunt Sophronia. She is 10” tall and her clothing is totally hand stitched. She is dark wood and the only painting is her boots. Thanks for your help. I look forward to each issue of your magazine. Contact Sherri at 1009sld@gmail.com Perhaps there is a doll in your collection that you and others have never seen before. Send us a high resolution photo and any information you have to antiquedoll@gmail.com (you may also send a print photo to Antique Doll Collector P.O. Box 39, East Petersburg, PA 17520). If you can identify a mystery doll, write to us at the address or email above.

A Room of Their Own

by Laurie Baker

hen my first French fashion doll arrived, I was besotted! I carefully placed her in the mirrored doll cabinet with a bevy of German china ladies. But something was not working. I moved her onto her own level with just a few pieces of antique miniature furniture. And that was that, or so I thought. Shortly after, I found a hatbox for her. And then, a pair of gloves. Those two purchases were the beginning of a passion for French fashion dolls that would radically change the direction of my collection. As I did more research into French Fashion dolls, pouring over auction catalogs and reference books, I saw dolls displayed against photographic backgrounds of France. Sumptuous French interiors of the day, all to scale, leapt from the pages of my reference books. The dolls were radiant in their lush, period settings, so much more so than my one lady in her rather lackluster display. Epiphany! I made my first salon, moved Mlle. into it, and neither of us has been the same since! My first salon had mirrors and family portraits on the walls, and a picture window looking out on a photograph of the Loire Valley, and heavy draperies. I quickly found, though, that less was more, and abandoned excessive and heavy-handed treatments. Instead, I adopted the credo that rich fabrics, fine passementerie and tassel trims, antique wallpapers, and painted wood moldings were all I needed to make a backdrop that would enhance, not compete with, the dolls themselves. This article will help you to create a salon to do the same for your own poupees. Happily, it is a forgiving process, not so exacting as to be daunting, and is easily adaptable as you go. ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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Instructions Decide on your plan: ❖ One fabric with baseboard and crown molding ❖ Two fabrics with a wainscot, baseboard, chair rail ❖ Cornice for depth Here is what you need to get started: ❖ 30” x 40” sheet of foam board. ❖ Elmer’s Craft Bond spray adhesive, medium-loft polyester batting, glue gun and glue sticks, Elmer’s wood glue ❖ Utility knife, metal straight edge, scissors, measuring tape ❖ Fabric and trim: One-fabric backdrop option: 1 yard 54” Two-fabric wainscot option: 1/2 yard each of two 54” fabrics Cornice/wainscot option: 1/3 yard 54” fabric for cornice Trim: (braid, tassels, etc.) 1 to 1 ½ yards, depending on width of the cabinet I recommend medium-weight brocade fabric, jacquard, ﬁne heavier silk like Dupioni, or antique French silk jacquard fabric available online. Very thin fabrics are not recommended with spray adhesive. If you are lucky enough to have a length of antique wallpaper, use that with a coordinating fabric – smashing!

❖ 2” Styrofoam spacers for behind the cornice. Depth will add dimension to your completed salon. This is a great way to use those ﬂat foam pieces that come in the shipping boxes with the arrival of your latest doll! ❖ Thin wood trim pieces for the chair rail, wider trim for the baseboard and crown molding. Latex paint for the trim pieces. I use a creamy color that goes with everything, but use your imagination! ❖ Read all these instructions before you begin your project. ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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Now you are ready to create your salon! Refer to the photographs, and have fun! 1. Measure the back wall of your cabinet. Using the utility knife and straight edge, cut the foam board ¼ inch smaller on each side to allow for the thickness of the fabrics. Save the leftover foam board if you plan to make a cornice. Fit the foam board into the cabinet. Too large? Cut a little off the bottom or sides. Too short? You can move the baseboard down a little, later, to add length on the bottom. 2. If you are using only one fabric, skip to Step 8. 3. If you are using two fabrics on the “wall,” determine how high you want the wainscot, and mark a horizontal line the foam board. 1/3 of the wall height is the usual wainscot guide. 4. Iron the fabrics. Wrinkles will show! Cut the fabrics 1 inch larger than the areas to be covered. 5. Spread newspaper on the work area to protect from overspray. Apply the adhesive spray lightly to the foam board and smooth on the ﬁrst fabric. Be sure to follow the grain or pattern, and smooth out any air bubbles underneath. Don’t worry if you are off on this. Just peel off the fabric and try again. On the back, wrap the raw fabric edges over and hot-glue in place. 6. Cover the completed section with newspaper, to protect it when you spray the next section. Apply the second fabric, leaving a narrow gap between the two fabrics, to prevent bulk.

Cut the narrow wood molding for the chair rail to the length of the foam board, paint, and let dry. Apply the wood glue to the back, and position the rail over the two fabrics where they meet, making sure it is straight. Things are starting to look good, aren’t they? Skip to Step 9.

If you skipped the wainscot steps, steps, iron the fabric, cut a piece one inch larger than the foam board on all sides. Apply fabric to the foam board, using a light coat of the adhesive spray, aligning any fabric pattern. Smoothing out any wrinkles. Turn over the foam board and hot-glue the edges down. 9. Place the foam board in the cabinet and check for ﬁt, so you will know how to position the baseboard. If the backdrop is too short for the cabinet, you can glue the baseboard a little lower to the foam board to cover the gap. 10. Measure and cut the baseboard and crown-molding trim. Paint, let dry, and wood-glue in place. TA DA!

You could stop right here and have a fine backdrop. But if you want a cornice, continue on with the following instructions.

11. Cut out a newsprint pattern for the cornice. The cornice must be cut 3/8” shorter, on both the right and left sides, than the width of the backdrop, so you can ﬁt it easily into the cabinet. Use a gentle curve in the pattern so it will be easier to work with. Trace the pattern onto the foam board and cut out the cornice piece. 12. Cut a piece of batting one inch larger than the cornice piece, all around. Lap the batting over the back and hot-glue it in place. 13. Cut a fabric piece one 1 ½” larger than the cornice foam board. Clip curves. Lap the fabric snugly over the foam board and batting , folding in corners, and hot-glue at the back. If your fabric has a pattern, be sure to center it on the cornice piece.

14. Glue braid or tassel trim around sides and bottom of the cornice, if desired.

15. Using a bread knife, cut Styrofoam pieces and hotglue all along the top edge of the backdrop. They should not show under the cornice. 16. Hot-glue the cornice securely to the Styrofoam spacers. This 3-D effect adds depth and interest in the ﬁnished salon!

17. Carefully place the backdrop into your cabinet space. If the spacers are visible, glue fabric strips over the exposed areas. If the backdrop fits snugly, you are finished! If it falls forward, use a length of adhesivebacked Velcro to hold it against the back wall of the cabinet. Your dolls, at this point, should be itching to move in! 18. In the salon pictures you will see variations on cornices and draperies. Pleats, gathers, festoons and trims add further dimension. 19. Take a few minutes to admire your handiwork! The first salon is the most difficult—the next one will just assemble itself! 20. Now that your backdrop is in place, the real fun begins! Your vignette will come to life as you place your dolls, their furniture, gowns, hats and accessories into the salon. Rich fabrics and trim, your vision for the project, and your skill with display will combine in a lovely, luxurious new home for your dolls. Trust me…they will thank you for it! ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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Theriault’s Sets New World Doll Auction Record! Stein am Rhein Puppenmuseum

Swiss doll museum closed some ﬁfteen years ago, no one knowing in the intervening years if its rare contents had been sold or not… it was a recipe for sweet success. Following last year’s death of Frau Steiner, the founder of the Puppenmuseum Stein am Rhein, Theriault’s was contacted by the family to sell its contents. The auction took place March 29 and 30 at the Waldorf Astoria Beach Resort in Naples, Florida. One of the ﬁnest doll museums in Europe, it was long renowned for its collection of classic French and German dolls, unusual accessories and foremost, an all original A. Marque numbered 27 which sold for $270,000 (over $300,000 with buyer’s premium). The results seen here speak for themselves. For additional prices visit theriaults.com and click on proxibid. Prices listed do not include the buyer’s premium.

The “H” by Halopeau, 18 inches, c. 1880, one of only a few examples known, brought $40,000. A lovely Huret poupée, c. 1860, with a later wooden body, $19,500.

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These rare all original French character dolls designed by the artist Poulbot, incised SFBJ 239 Paris Poulbot, surpassed their pre-estimate to sell for $40,000.

The musical automaton, clown with Fan and Ball, by Roullet de Decamps, 43 inches, brought $42,500.

This fabulous walking elephant automaton by Roullet et Decamps, 15 inches tall, with its four all original seated bisque dolls, c. 1890, brought $32,000. A lovely A.T., 16 inches, with exceptional deep blue paperweight eyes, dressed in an antique costume, realized $37,500.

A French bisque bebe by Schmitt et Fils, 17 inches, was sold with the miniature dachshund for $19,500. 58

22 inches, Incised A. Marque and 27, with a partial pencil label on foot, and cloth label in the original costume, “Margaine-Lacroix 19 Boulevard Haussman Paris,” this magnificent example (one of 100 dolls made) soared to $270,000.

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rare Steiner Series B, marked “Sie B4”, 23 inches tall, sold for approximately $30,200 during the Chartre auction on March 22.

n 18-inch early cloth pre-patent model doll by Izannah Walker realized $12,600 at the March 22nd Morphy Auction featuring the collection of the Foote family of Maryland.

size 10 Tete Jumeau, 26 inches, wearing the original silk costume, sold for $6,435 during the Sweetbriar April 5 auction.

large Steiff golden mohair bear with muzzle and underscore Steiff button, 24 inches, brought $10,300 at the recent Bertoia auction in Vineland, NJ. An early portrait Jumeau incised 1, (original body but the missing right leg) 16-1/2 inches, realized $5,900.

rom the Leon Casimir Bru period, this Bebe Bru with pressed bisque head, 29 inches, brought approximately $13,800 at François Theimer’s March 29 auction in Paris.

his 7-inch Heubach “Tiss Me” sold for $3,693 at Alderfer’s April 2 auction in Hatﬁeld, PA.

We would like to thank the following auction houses for their participation: Alderfer Auction, 501 Fairgrounds Road, Hatfield, PA 19440. 215-393-3000. www.alderferauction.com Bertoia Auctions, 2141 DeMarco Drive, Vineland, NJ 08360. 856-692-1881. www.bertoiaauctions.com Galerie de Chartres, 10 rue Claude Bernard – ZA Le Coudray - BP 70129 – 28003 Chartres Cedex, France. www.ivoire-chartres.com Morphy Auctions, 2000 North Reading Road, Denver, PA 17517. 717-335-3435. www.morphyauctions.com Sweetbriar Auctions, P.O. Box 37, Earleville, MD 21919. 410-275-2094. www.sweetbriarauctions.com Francois Theimer, 4 rue des Cavaliers 89130 Toucy France. www.theimer.fr ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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Calendar of Events Send in your Free Calendar Listing to: Antique Doll Collector, c/o Calendar, P.O. Box 239, Northport, New York 11768 or Email: adcsubs@gmail.com. If you plan on attending a show, please call the number to verify the date and location as they may change.

4/19-10/5/14. Switzerland. Japan & Switzerland Special Exhibition. Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel. www.toy-worlds-museum-basle.ch.

MAY 1-3 Essington/Philadelphia, PA. Doll & Bear Convention. Clarion Hotel & Convention Center. Terry Quinlan. 805-687-8901. 3 Dover, NH. Doll Show. Dover Elks Hall. San-D-Over Dollars. Trudi Googins. 603-868-7039. 3 Fullerton, CA. Mini Conference. Crowne Plaza. Doll Council Serving Los Angeles, Orange & Riverside Counties. Frances Shelby. 714-847-2361. 3-4 Greensboro, NC. Doll Show. Embassy Suites. NADDA. 336-668-4535. www.NADDA.org. 3 Greenwood, IN. Doll & Bear Show. Greenwood United Methodist Church. Greenwood United Methodist Women. Jo Ann Gates. 317-882-5787. 3 Maitland, FL. Doll Show. Maitland Civic Center. Greater Orlando Doll Club. Barbara Keehbauch. 407-678-5678. 3 Oklahoma City, OK. Doll Show. Oklahoma City Fairgrounds. Kyle Productions Unlimited. 405-810-1010. 3 San Diego, CA. Doll Show. Al Bahr Temple. Mini Doll Friends of Southern CA. Gloria Osborn. 619-298-2447. 3 Shoreline, WA. Doll & Toy Show. Shoreline Conference Center. Seattle Doll & Toy Collectors Club. Joy Hill. 425-712-1575.

4 Cedar Rapids, IA. Dolls & Toys Show. Teamster’s Union Hall. Elaine Klein. 712-889-2154. porcdoll@wiatel.net. 4 Easton, PA. Doll Show. Forks Township Community Center. Twin Country Doll Club. Earl Bethel. 610-866-5326. ebgeeb@ptd.net. 10 Arcadia, CA. Doll Show. Oak Tree Room. Serendipity Doll Show. Michael Kouri. 626-791-1129. 10 Batavia, NY. Doll & Bear Show. Clarion Hotel. Saturday’s Child. Martha Smith. 585-265-1226. 10 Kimberly, WI. Doll Show. Tanners Grill. Enchanting Dolls of the Fox Valley. Sharon Roxanne Wallis. 920-739-0461. 10 Nashville, TN. Doll Show. Marriott Airport Hotel. Knight SE Doll Shows. Howard Knight. 803-783-8049. www.knightshows.com. 13 Laurel, MD. Doll Auction. Oseh Shalom. Maryland Doll Club. Barbara Dugan. 410-626-2028. dugan@dollshousebandb.com. 15-18 Orlando, FL. Doll Convention Show. International Palms Resort. Fire-Flies Golden Age of Dolls. Margaret Wulff. 636-825-7584. 16 Sale Lake City, UT. Luncheon. Utah State Fairgrounds. Madame Alexander Doll Club of Salt Lake City. Dorothy Drake. 775-348-7713. 17 Chartres, France. French Dolls & Accessories Auction. Galerie De Chartres. 33(0)2 37 88 28 28. (F)33(0)2 37 88 28 20. chartres@galeriedechartres.com.

WELCOME SPRING!

Come to the 166th Eastern National Doll Show and Sale! Join the UFDC in the Learning Room © at the June 7 and 8, 2014 show in Gaithersburg, MD. Programs at 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday - Val Star Building an Eclectic Collection. Sunday - Jonathan Green VEB Bad Kösen Dolls. Display of Russian Stacking Dolls Victoria Christopherson, both days. Plus doll stringing and repair, UFDC club sales tables, hourly door prizes including Antique Doll Collector subscriptions and free tickets for upcoming Eastern National Doll Shows! Celebrate spring at the show and ﬁnd that doll treasure you have been searching for! All activities are free and open to all doll show attendees. For more information about UFDC and its activities in the Learning Room contact Barbara Stone at BSConsults@aol.com.

17 Columbus, IN. Doll Show. Bartholomew County 4-H Fairgrounds. Dolls Night Out Club of Columbus Indiana. Barb Joy. 812-342-6106. 17 Nazareth, PA. Doll Auction. Dotta Auction Co., Inc. 610-759-7389. www.dottaauction.com. www.auctionzip.com. 17 Pasadena, CA. Doll Show. Pasadena Elks Lodge. Forever Young. Sandy Kline. 818-368-4648. 17 Salt Lake City, UT. Crossroads Doll & Bear Event. Utah Fairpark. Dorothy. 775-348-7713. info@crossroadsshows.com. www.dolls4all.com. 17 San Diego, CA. Doll Show. Our Savior’s Lutheran Church. Doll Collectors of North Park. Denise Perkins. 619-602-9043. Suzanne McHenry. 619-444-3529. 17 Sequim, WA. Doll Show. Sunland Country Club. Olympic Peninsula Doll Club. Connie Holtz. 360-582-9982. 17 Waltham, MA. Doll Study Club of Boston Fundraiser Auction. Must Pre-pay & Pre-Register. Barbara Scully. edpscully@aol.com 18 Chartres, France. Automata Mechanical Music Auction. Galerie De Chartres. 33(0)2 37 88 28 28. (F)33(0)2 37 88 28 20. chartres@galeriedechartres.com. 18 Madison Heights, MI. Doll Show. UFCW Hall. Michael. 248-399-4345. Sharon 586-731-3072. www.dollshowproductions.com. 18 Mayﬁeld Heights/Cleveland, OH. Doll Show. Sherwin-Gilmore Party Center. Eileen Green. 440-729-9690. 18 Mounds View, MN. Doll & Bear Show. Mermaid Event Center Coral Bay Ballroom. Carol Benson. 612-669-1613. 18 New Hope, PA. Doll Show. Eagle Fire Hall. Mark Lehmann. 215-657-2477. markvleh@cavtelnet. 20 London, England. Dolls & Teddy Bears Auction. Bonhams. Rachel Gotch. +44 (0)208-963-2838. Rachel.gotch@bonhams.com. 24 Koeln (Godorf), Germany. Toys & Automata Auction. Auction Team Breker. +49 2236 38 4340. (F)+49 2236 38 43430. Auction@Breker.com. www.breker.com. 24 Bremerton/Seattle, WA. Doll Show. Kitsap Conference Center. Paciﬁc North West Ball-Jointed Doll Expo. Marie Adair. 360-779-9806. 24-25 Las Vegas, NV. Marquis Auction Weekend. Bellagio. Theriaults. 410-224-3655. (F)410-224-2515. www.theriaults.com. 29-31 Albuquerque, NM. Doll & Bear Show. MCM Elegante. Crossroads. Dorothy. 775-348-7713. www.dolls4all.com.

31-6/1 Bismarck, ND. Doll Show & Luncheon. Best Western Seven Seas Hotel. Bismarck Doll Friends. 701-258-7869. 31 Fulton, NY. Luncheon. All Saint’s Church. Triple O Doll Study Club. Lynne Field. 315-593-1853. 31 Prescott, AZ. Doll Show. La Quinta Inn. Lynne. 928-713-1909. Diane. 928-308-2644. Prescottdollshow.com. prescottdollshow@gmail.com.

JUNE 1 Belleville, IL. Doll & Collectible Show. Belle-Clair Expo Bldg. Kay Weber. 618-233-0940. www.kwebershows.com. 1 Portsmouth, NH. Doll & Teddy Bear Show. Frank Jones Center. Wendy Collins. 603-939-1699. 5-8 Dallas, TX. Doll Convention. Hilton Anatole. DollAKon. Kelly Herrington. 972-317-7175. 7 Benicia, CA. Doll Show. Benicia Yacht Club. Stephanie Blythe. 415-455-8415. 7 Elk Grove Village, IL. Doll Conference & Competition. Jane Easterly. 309-299-0486. 7-8 Gaithersburg, MD. Doll Show. The Fairgrounds. Bellman Events. 410-357-8451. 443-617-3590. Infodolls@comcast.net. 8 Buena Park, CA. Doll Show. Holiday Inn. Sherri Gore. 310-386-4211. 8 Naperville, IL. Doll & Teddy Bear Show. Marriott Hotel. Karla Moreland. 815-356-6125. kmorela@ais.net. www.napervilledollshow.com. 9 Gaithersburg, MD. Theriault Discovery Day Auction. Hilton. info@theriaults.com 14 Green Valley, AZ. Luncheon Program & Display. Green Valley East Social Center. Tucson Doll Guild. Marti Nelson. 520-393-0502. 14 Thousand Oaks, CA. Doll & Bear Show. Palm Garden Hotel. Rowbear & Friends. 831-438-5349. 14 Westampton, NJ. Sweetbriar Dolls at Auction. Sweetbriar. 410-275-2094. SweetbriarAuctions.com. 15 Anaheim, CA. Doll & Bear Show. Anaheim Plaza. DollFestival@aol.com. 831-438-5349. 19-20 Nashua, NH. Doll Auction. Holiday Inn. Withington Auctions. 603-478-3232. (F) 478-3233. www.withingtonauction.com. withington@conknet.com. 21 Paciﬁc Grove, CA. The Lenci Luncheon. Registration required. Carmel Doll Shop. 831-643-1902. www.carmeldollshop.com. Calendar cont. on page 64

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Lynne & Di’s Fourth Annual Doll Show & Sale

Saturday, May 31st, 2014 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM La Quinta Inn 4499 East State Route 69, Prescott, AZ 86301

Great Door Prizes & Grand Prize Drawing for Charity Lots of Parking! General Admission: $5

($1 off with ad, flyer or coupon)

Lynne Shoblom (928) 713-1909 Diane Vigne (928) 308-2644 www.PrescottDollShow.com www.DollShowUSA.com prescottdollshow@gmail.com

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5th Annual Fall Doll Show & Sale New Location & All Sellers in One Room! Medina Entertainment Center 500 HWY 55, Medina, MN 55340

Sunday October 5, 2014

10 Sami Court, Englishtown, NJ 07726 Ph. 732-536-4101 Email: santiqbebe@aol.com Exclusively at www.rubylane.com/shops/sarabernsteindolls

Visit our shop at www.rubylane.com/shops/ kathysandterrysdolls 717-979-9001

Hours: 11-4, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or by appointment. Visit us at www.kydollandtoymuseum.com Like us on Facebook at ky doll and toy museum

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Sherman’s Antiques

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106 W. Main St., Carlisle, KY 40311 859-289-3344

Show time 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Looking for Sellers/Vendors of any Doll, Toy and Bear related items. 29th Annual Doll Jamboree on Saturday October 4, 2014 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel only 5 miles away. Call 239-282-9499 or visit our Website for more information and Contract:

1103 6th St. N.W. Winter Haven Florida 33881 We specialize in antique and collectable toys and dolls and also deal in all types of antiques. Our doll doctor has over 20 years experience with all doll services performed on site. We make as well as restore teddy bears too. Our doll doctor can make wigs, clothes or any service your doll may need. We are located in central Florida and opened year around seven days a week. Monday thru Saturday 10 am – 5 pm and Sunday 12 pm – 5 pm. Call 863-956-4333 or 863-221-4035. Email: Jerry@Shermansantiques.net Website: www.shermansantiques.net Member of UFDC and Doll Doctors Association of America

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VICTORIAN RETREAT ANTIQUE DOLLS

Beautiful dolls at reasonable prices! Lynne Shoblom, 928-445-5908 or cell 928-713-1909.

email victorianretreat@msn.com Lovely 20” DEP made for the French Market. Big blue spiral glass sleep eyes with lashes, French body. A beauty! $895

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Come join us at the 4th Annual

PRESCOTT DOLL SHOW AND SALE Saturday, May 31st at the La Quinta Inn, Prescott, AZ. Door prizes, rafﬂes and fun for all! Visit our website: prescottdollshow.com or call Lynne 928-713-1909 or Di 928-308-2644 for details.

ANTIQUE dolls and collectibles. LSADSE for color fully illustrated list. 10 month layaway available. Member UFDC & NADDA. Regina A. Steele, 23 Wheatfield DR, Wilmington, DE 19810-4351. Phone 302-475-5374 Email: RSteele855@aol.com Visit my website: www.ReginaSteele.com ONE OF FLORIDA’S LARGEST DOLL SHOPS... is just a short drive from the interstate. Come find the doll of your dreams in historic downtown DeLand, FL. We have a large selection of dolls over 100 years old, as well as vintage and one of a kind. Dolls of DeLand, 118 N Woodland Blvd (Hwy 17-92), DeLand, FL 32720 (386) 736-0004 Tues-Sat 11:00AM-5:00PM CERTIFIED DOLL APPRAISALS – Doll appraisals online at www.doll-appraisals.com by Certified C.A.G.A. appraiser, for insurance, bankruptcy, divorce, casualty loss, or just to see what a doll is worth, its history, etc. I can also do appraisals by mail. Victoria Way, P. O. Box 501, Tehachapi, CA 93582. Phone 661-823-7828 or 661-972-7728. Please visit my website at www.doll-appraisals.com or www.antiquedollappraisals.com

ANTIQUE DOLLS – French and German Bisque, All Bisque, Chinas, Limited Ed. Doll Plates. SASE. Ann Lloyd, 5632 S. Deer Run Road, Doylestown, PA 18902. 215-794-8164. Email: alloyd@nni.com RubyLane.com/ shops/anntiquedolls Member NADDA, UFDC

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Back row: 16” Chase, original dress, body signed - $650; 15” French Fashion, head & shoulder plate mkd. 3 - $2,800. Front row: 12” marked CB 3 Face Doll, pull string cryer $1,800; 10” Gibson Kestner 172 - $800 Contact Evelyn Gigante dixiedollshop@aol.com 954-537-9325 or 954-253-6494 www.Dixie Doll Shop. com

The Doll Works Judith Armitstead (781) 334-5577 P.O. Box 195, Lynnfield, MA 01940

Please visit our website for a ﬁne selection of antique dolls, dollhouse dolls, dollhouse miniatures, teddy bears, all bisque dolls, bathing beauties, kewpies, dresser boxes, snow babies, half dolls, and doll accessories at www.thedollworks.net

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OUR BIGGEST AND BEST EVENT! The Frizellburg Antique Store’s

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Fri. May 16 and Sat. May 17 We get started around 8:00 till ? Many dealers with quality merchandise at SUPER prices. Both days are worth the trip so put us on your calendar! FRIZELLBURG ANTIQUE STORE 1909 Old Taneytown Road, Westminster, MD 21158 410-848-0664 or 410-875-2850 Open every Thurs-Sun. 11-5 $10 daily to join us, please call ahead

Calendar cont. from page 61 21-22 Puyallup, WA. Doll & Bear Show. Puyallup Fairgrounds. Crossroads. Dorothy. 775-348-7713. www.dolls4all.com. 22 Sandwich, MA. Doll Show. American Legion Hall. Cindy Burke. 508-697-5781. Jaide73@hotmail.com. 27-29 Lakeland, FL. Miniature Convention Show. Hilton Garden Inn. Lakeland Miniature Guild. Pat Gazie. 407-733-7988. Carol Kira. 863-646-1354.

JULY 13 Ewing, NJ. Doll Show. W. Trenton Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1. Delaware Valley Doll Club of NJ. Michael Szvetkovics. 609-599-1498. 14-18 San Antonio, TX. Doll Show. Wyndham San Antonio Riverwalk. Rowbear & Friends Doll Festival. Rowbear. 831-438-5349. Dollfestival@aol.com. 15 San Antonio, TX. Doll Auction. Hyatt Regency. Theriaults. 800-638-0422. 16-20 San Antonio, TX. UFDC Doll Convention. JW Marriot San Antonio Hill Country Resort. Reservations: 877-622-3140. Info.: www.ufdc.org. 23 Nashville, TN. Doll & Bear Show. Marriott Airport Hotel. Howard Knight. 803-783-8049. www.KnightShows.com. 31-8/2 Austin, TX. Doll Convention (BJD). Omni Southpark. Ball Joint Doll Collectors Convention. Sherri Rhein. 512-414-3793.

Ashley’s Dolls & Antiquities

Billye Harris • 723 NC Hwy 61 South, Whitsett, NC 27377 • (336) 266-2608 Website: AshleysDolls.com • E-mail: AshleysDolls@gmail.com Visit us on Rubylane.com/shops/Ashleysdollsandantiquities • Generous Layaways Member UFDC and NADDA