The Well-Bred English Wooden Doll Standing front and center of any doll collection fortunate enough to offer haven would surely be an English wooden doll of the mid1700s. That the doll would also be of regal stature and with a distinctive portrait-like face would seal its role as the queen of the collection. And should that doll also be the owner of a fine trousseau of costumes, some from its own moment of creation, and others of later decades, her triumph is complete. Such a doll is the 29” English wooden lady, circa 1740, presented at Theriault’s Marquis May auction “And Then The Page Turns…”. Previously the property of the Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art,
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