Antique DOLL Collector January 2019 Vol. 21, No. 12
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The Complete Guide to Antique, Vintage and Collectible Dolls
January 2019, Volume 21, Number 12 Follow us on... facebook.com/antiquedollcollectormagazine pinterest.com/antiquedollcollectormagazine instagram.com/antiquedollcollectormagazine
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THE PLAYFUL FIGURES OF HIRATA GOYO
THE LANDMARK DOLL COLLECTION OF MARGARET LUMIA by Florence Theriault
26 2018 UFDC COMPETITIVE EXHIBITION BLUE RIBBON WINNERS - PART 4
By Alan Scott Pate
57 Auction Gallery 32 Emporium
62 Calendar 63 Classified
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A mere lad, yet with august dignity in his expression and eyes is the rare 102 art character model by Kammer and Reinhardt, circa 1910 featured at Theriault’s January 12, 2019 auction in Newport Beach, CA.
42 THE DIONNE QUINTUPLET DOLLS AND HOW THEY SAVED THE DAY FOR MADAME ALEXANDER by Rodney Waller
52 TO RESTORE, OR NOT TO RESTORE…THAT IS THE QUESTION! By Melanie Luther
58 COLLECTING MODERN ART
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1) Boutique Original SFBJ 235 - Step back into a luxury Paris doll shop to find this kind of playful opulence & luxury Presentation of a baby. One in a million and Flocked Hair too.! $950 2) 5” Rare Pair Doll House Parians 1870’s w. jtd. arms, molded heeled boots & socks w. Lustre Finish & Garters.! Matching Vintage Outfits. $395 each. 3 A Rare 16” Wax Socket Head Kestner All Original in Precious Layers and Fancy Shoes; mint 8-ball Schmitt Body, sl.eyes, So important yet dear. $1800 4) Choice JDK 247 Flirty - Hilda’s sister was never so cunning until you see her flirt those big grey eyes in that angelic creamy bisque.; Original Wig, Clothes and Body too! A really different Kestner! $850 5) Important & Rare Meissen School Heubach - so very unique, Mint and Signed; elegantly charming & museum worthy character atop her Elaborate Scrolled Pedestal. $895 6) Haunting 16” Belton ‘Bebe’ - a soulful French Trade jeune fille w. moonlight pale bisque, big Blue Spiral PWs, feathered brows, early body,all antique clothing a uniquely winsome spirit! $2250
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7A-B) A 20” Luscious ‘Portrait Face’ Jumeau Fashion - dreamy expression, sultry ice blue PWs with Lid Liner & Shaded Lids, set in snowy pure bisque! Original Jumeau Leather Body, vintage clothes & shoes, plus a cascade of luxurious Hip Length Mohair Tresses. Breathtaking! $4995 8) 29” Boutique Original Handwerck Beauty - drenched in her multiple layers of rich Lacework & Finery w. the Boutique Label in her Hat, incredible Factory Wig, mint bisque & body.This very doll is in Coleman’s Encyclopedia. $1250
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9) 20” Gibson Style Kestner Lady 162 - Early & Mint; w. Stiff Wrist, Molded Bust Lady Body. Factory Pate & lady Wig wears antique Silk gown. $1495 10) Large 10” Heubach ‘Winker’ Character - that has Factory Clothes, Shoes & the best Starfish Toddler Body possible! What a face! $1500 11) A Gibson Type Halbig Lady 970 - never seen 1887 patent character, with dimples, Square Teeth, PW’s w. Shaded Lids; Factory Wig & Original Lady Ensemble hat to shoes! $1495
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arely do antique doll collections appear today that can be rightfully labeled legendary or lodestar. Or “Landmark”, which is the title of the book featuring the collection of Margaret Lumia. Chosen with a discerning eye, acquired with a dogged persistence and nurtured carefully during time in her care, the collection offers doll lovers, historians, and art scholars an extremely rare look at some of the world’s most cherished antique dolls. The Lumia Landmark Collection has previously been known to few collectors. Margaret Lumia is a private person, deeply involved with research and other family and business commitments, who has cherished her collection as a personal venture. But no dilettante is she. Every acquisition was made after extensive study and comparison with other examples. She worked with only a few vendors who quickly learned to offer her only the best. Her acquisitions at auction have been from the estates or notable museum closings of the last 25 years including the Lucy Morgan Collection, the Legoland Museum of Dolls and Toys, the Puppen & Spielzeug Museum of Vienna, the estate of Richard Wright, the Mildred Seeley Collection and the Mary Merritt Doll Museum. Margaret Lumia came to the collecting of antique dolls through her involvement in the world of doll artistry in which she was inspired to create unique portraitures in doll form. So admired was her talent that her original dolls were featured on the cover of numerous magazines and won countless awards during the heyday of doll artistry in the 1990s.
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Margaret has noted that undertaking the nuances of creating a doll gave her a better appreciation for the work of doll makers in the 18th and 19th centuries and inspired her to begin her collection of these earlier dolls. During this time, Margaret Lumia developed the intention of creating a splendid doll museum. The museum would include not only the finest antique dolls but also dollhouses, automata and other antique playthings. No strangers were the couple to the notion of creating a new venture. In the 1980s, they had left their corporate investment jobs, determined to establish their own firm designing and manufacturing revolutionary medical devices. In a wonderful article published in the November, 1990 magazine, Money Magazine, the author describes how the young couple spent their last pennies for a booth at a medical trade show, only to have their product develop a leak at the last moment. Frantically, they sought an answer for immediate temporary repair and it came to them. Duct Tape! The day was saved, the product was a grand success and, as the author said, “Like Thomas Edison before them, they headed home with another problem: how to mass-produce the thing.” And so it went. The medical supply company flourished under Margaret’s inventive ideas and David’s business acumen. Then another turn in the road took place. Margaret Lumia was a skilled and avid tennis player, and as her professional involvement in this interest grew, the couple moved to their home in Florida where she became involved in tennis competitions, eventually earning a place in the ranks of the top 700 worldwide in the Professional WTA circuit. So much of the Margaret Lumia story echoes others in the world of dolls and doll collecting. The words “duct tape!” eerily calls up the words of the 19th century American doll
Shown above are two examples of the beloved Bebe Modele by Leon Casimir Bru, but also the extremely rare Bebe Gourmand. The collection also includes classic Bru Jne bebes in superb original costumes, as well as early poupees by the firm.
An imposing 24" tall, the early English doll is notable not only for highly-personalized carving of facial features and original costume, but also for very shapely legs, a feature only found on very early and luxury dolls of this genre.
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Featured on the cover of the “Landmark� catalog is this all-original Jumeau bebe as Asian child, with outstanding complexion, distinctive painting of facial features, original wig, and superb multi-layered original silk costume.
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The beautiful and rare Huret bebe has superb painting and a most gentle expression. The collection includes several Huret poupees, too, with fine antique costumes.
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For many years the pair of A.T. bebes by Thuillier were features in the Mary Merritt doll Museum and, later, were shown of the cover of the museum auction catalog.
maker Izannah Walker who was said to have awoken in the middle of the night with the answer on how to obtain a permanent finish on her doll heads, “Use paste!” There is the story of Mildred Seeley, school teacher, who created one of the world’s most important firms in doll artistry. There is the story of Lucy Morgan, who left her opulent Florida home late in her life for the coast of Maine where she
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opened Lucy’s Doll House. Margaret Lumia takes her place with these former giants. The collection includes so many notable dolls for when Margaret Lumia became engrossed with a subject she wanted to learn all about the companies, the people and the dolls they made. Shown here are just a few of the categories which engrossed her.
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Only six examples of the rare painted-eye portrait poupee are known to exist; he has a wooden articulated body with bisque hands, and superb antique costume including beaver top hat. Other superb poupees in the collections focus on those with distinctive portrait like faces and/or having rare experimental bodies. Antique DOLL Collector
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So many dolls from the famed art-character movement are highlighted in the Lumia collection and shown here is the outstanding 22" Kammer and Reinhardt model 102.
Known as Clapham genre wooden dolls for their distinctive resemblance to the noted Lord and Lady Clapham in the Victorian and Albert Museum, shown are three examples in various sizes, including the rare Clapham baby, acquired from the famed Bodner collection.
Standing a regal 28� tall, the statuesque Grodnertal wooden ladies features rare elements such as unique body type and modeled bodice. Carved wooden dolls from England and the Continent have been of special interest to Margaret Lumia and the collection features a grand array.
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The Lumia Collection includes two very rare examples from the Jumeau 200 art character series, including model 210 (shown in the ad on the inside front cover) and this splendid 26" example.
The entire collection will be on display Friday evening and Saturday morning, January 11 and 12, 2019 at the ballroom of the Fashion Island Hotel in Newport Beach, CA for a rare exhibition, open free to the public. If you cannot attend the exhibition you can also view the dolls at Theriault’s YouTube channel. You can view all of the dolls in the auction by visiting www.theriaults.com Antique DOLL Collector
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