Antique DOLL Collector March 2017 Vol. 20, No. 2
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The Complete Guide to Antique, Vintage and Collectible Dolls
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March 2017 Volume 20, Number 2
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EVALUATING JAPANESE ICHIMATSU DOLLS
A POUPEE’S EXQUISITE WARDROBE
By Alan Scott Pate
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By Laurie Baker
W.C.Fields, THE MAN AND THE DOLL by Gail Lemmon
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About The Cover
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ROOMS FROM THE MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD
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MORE 1920s CARNIVAL DOLLS
by Sharon Hope Weintraub
9 Withington Dealer Showcase 18 Auction Gallery 27 NADDA Dealer Showcase 6
35 Toledo Dealer Showcase 44 Emporium 60 Calendar 62 Classified
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COLLECTIBLES: THE JAPANESE DOLL FESTIVAL
By Ellen Tsagaris
Ichimatsu ningyo by Hirata Goyo II (1903-1981), designated Japanese Living National Treasure (Ningen kokuho) in 1955, exceptionally high quality ichimatsu-ningyo depicting a young girl dressed in a spectacularly designed kimono with painted designs depicting classic allusions of poets set amidst flowering fields, sensitively rendered face with painted details, real hair, eyelashes, inset glass eyes and delicately pursed lips, hako sekko purse, fan, brilliant red brocade obi, red under kimono with embroidered collar, white silk tabi socks, on a wood framed stand with red base cloth and white metal upright, signature cloth bearing “Goyo Dojinsha” mark. Minor fading , overall excellent condition. 20-1/2” High (Overall 21-1/2”). Circa 1938. She is now in the Barr Collection Her price today would be $55,000
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1 and 2) Sophia Smith and Lydia - two of the rarest of chinas Mint and Original. 14.5” Sophia boasts creamy pink tint w/ big brown eyes, and her photo in Krombholz book of China Dolls. The very one! $3250. Lydia at 24” claims an Original Kintzback Body and pretty Silk Sunday Clothes and Shoes! $4500.
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3) From turn of the century Paris swaggers this 19” All Original French Papier Mache Character fully jointed in extravagant Factory Silk Ensemble w/ leather Shoes and grand plumed Chapeau! Quelle Panache!! $2500 4) The Exclusive Bebe Mothereau - Only rarely does this luxurious hyper rare Bebe present itself and none finer than this rare size 30” model w/ her Original Signed Body and gorgeous Mint Head, stupendous Mint HandTied Wig and wearing an Important Historic Ensemble and Signed Shoes exhibiting her Continental history. Truly a historic doll of major import for the advanced collection. $18,500
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