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9) Life Size 25” ‘Laughing Jumeau’ - big PWs & great mohair wig, original body & period clothes. All excellent. $650; WPA Hand Puppet - mother to the Three Little Pigs set. $250 10) 18” Classic JD Kestner - gentle bisque, original fine clothes, ivory leather booties & Factory Skin Wig plus wax on sl. eyes. $375

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Wig & Silk Party Dress. $1995 26) 11” Rare Heubach ‘417’ Boy - a ‘Just Me’ companion; Orig. Wig, sl. eyes, quality bisque character. $1100; Mint 4. 5” Steiff Manni’s - Buttons, Tags & so cute. $350 27) 15” Rare Gbr. Heubach Flange Neck Character - vivid blue eyes, great Skin Wig,“mute” Key Wind body.

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The Quest A Collecting Column by Linda Edward

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Famed British illustrator, Mabel Lucie Atwell‘s charming illustration for the old nursery rhyme Bye-Bye Baby Bunting backdrops dolls in bunnyinspired outfits.

Left to Right, we see a paper doll set of the 1910s included an illustration of a crib doll in bunny outfit, a pair of Hanne Kruse Däumlinchen dolls wear their original bunny-eared sleepers, a small German bisque doll with a mohair covered composition body including rabbit ears (photo courtesy of Frasher’s Doll Auctions), and a 4.5” Hertwig & Co. all-bisque child in bunny costume (photo courtesy of MyLittleDolls2).

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pring is in the air; the garden is starting to come to life, and once again, I find my thoughts turning to bunny rabbits. Long before artist Anne Geddes started photographing babies in animal costumes, baby clothing with animal ears was used in many cultures.

Luckily for doll collectors, over the past one hundred years or so, doll makers responded with a variety of dolls wearing rabbit-related apparel.

The nursery rhyme Bye-Bye Baby Bunting has been known for centuries and was first published in the 1700s.

The image of a baby wearing a bunny-inspired outfit has been deeply entrenched in western culture ever since.

This inspired baby bonnets with ears and sleeper sets which included bunny ears. These became quite popular in the early-20th century. The character babies of the 1910s and infant and baby dolls of the following decades were often costumed in such apparel.

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century traded on the public’s fascination with this type of character. The work of Beatrix Potter, Margaret Tarrant, Mabel Lucie Atwell, Margaret Mary Tempest, Angus Clifford, Racey Helps, and many others brought these bunny-babies to life in the imaginations of their young audiences. The German and American doll manufacturers of the period were only too happy to include such products in their lines.

Being harbingers of spring and renewal, rabbits have also long been associated with the Easter holiday. Dolls representing Easter bunnies were extremely popular in this same period. Bisque, composition, and celluloid doll heads can be found on items running the gambit from candy containers to costumed dolls to bunny rabbits with doll’s faces. All of which can be found at shows and shops today, and it seems that the vigilant collector will have no difficulty allowing bunny-related dolls to multiply within their collections. continued on page 12

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Gigi’s Dolls & Sherry’s Teddy Bears Inc. 24.5” Kestner Baby Jean Hilda’s Baby Sister w/ fabulous molding & coloring, blue sleep eyes, wobble tongue, repainted baby body, sweet addition to any collection $795.

Madame Alexander’s: 15” Sonja Henie All original in black velvet tagged skating outfit, HH wig in original set, clear brown eyes, slight crazing $195. 20.5” Cynthia 1952, beautiful hard plastic doll in vintage organdy dress by Sarah, few paint rubs, hard to find size $645. 17.5” Leslie 1965 All Original in Pink Ball Gown (Polly face), beautiful coloring, tag & ring $225.

Hard to Find Judy Garland – Wizard of Oz Dorothy 1939. 13.5” Dorothy marked – Ideal Doll Made in USA, brown eyes, brunette HH wig – redressed, slight crazing $895. 15.5” Dorothy marked 15 Ideal Doll Made in USA, brown eyes, brunette HH wig – redressed, slight crazing, slight crazing $995.

18” Ideal Shirley Temple Baby w/ clear flirty eyes, original mohair wig & booties (polished), vintage dress, head marked Shirley Temple, slight crazing, cloth body, compo limbs $625.

German All Bisque Dolls 5.5” Googlie w/ blue eyes, blonde mohair wig $190. 4.5” #170 4/0 with orig. mohair wig, blue painted eyes $175. 5” #150 4 ¼ 0 w/ brown sleep eyes, original mohair wig $195. 5” I with blue painted eyes, original mohair wig, pink socks $195.

16.5” O/M Tete Jumeau (red stamp) on stiff wrist body, blue glass eyes, antique mohair wig, pierced ears, 1” hairline front rim $895.

18.5” 28 SFBJ 301 6 w/ blue eyes ( rocker missing), HH wig, paint flacking on hands $395.

4.34” Handmade yarn doll from Viana, Portugal, great detailing $39.95

8” All original Alexander 1963 Southern Belle, BK walker $225.

Schoenhut embossed – Jan 17, 11 20” Miss Dolly 19/316C w/ teeth, green eyes, wear on nose, replaced mohair wig, antique clothing $475.

14” #14/107 in original union suit, mohair wig (sparse), blue eyes, some wear on face $285.

22” Schoenhut Miss Dolly girl w/ teeth, green eyes, blond mohair wig, original clothing & shoes, some paint damage on forehead & right cheek, hands repainted $585. 7” Steiff 1960’s mohair monkey $69.95

13” Ideal Flexy Clown Mortimer Snerd all original, small paint crack on head $95. 9 x 7.5” Mohair Elephant w/glass eyes, great personality, slight wear $85. 13” German Mystery Doll Artist head on Steiff?

Body or maybe artist worked at Steiff?, felt jointed body, leather shoes, right hand some damage $250.

14” 1952 Alexander Bride #1550 All Original w/ bouquet & curler box, few spots on dress ( not laundered), few holes in veil $295.

15.5” Ruthie by Maggie Iacono #17/80 Maggie Made, felt ball jointed doll in beautiful felt dress & embellished jacket $450.

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by Hazel Drukker, 1921, Louis Amberg & Son Co., repainted head & arms, crazing, cloth body $895. 18.5” General Douglas MacArthur WW11 by Freundlich 1942, All original in uniform w/ belt, nice compo, paint chip on hat $195. 19.5” Snow White by Knickerbocker, original dress & cape, replaced undergarments, slight crazing $150. 12.5” All Original Cameo Giggles in romper, shoes & socks, sweet expression, 1 paint chip by mouth $110.

19” Movie Queen – Wieboldt’s Quality Doll all original – Shirley Temple want to be, slight crazing, tin hazel eyes $195.

13” Shirley Temple all original in white & blue dot dress w/ pin, clear eyes $215.

13” Shirley Temple all original in pink organdy – Curly Top dress w/ pin, minty condition compo & clear eyes $295.

17” 1925 Effanbee Baby Evelyn in tagged NRA Mary Lu J.C. Penney dress, HH wig, slight crazing, missing 1 shoe & sock $125.

20” 1939 Horsman’s Gold Medal Baby w/ caracul wig, beautiful compo & coloring, vintage clothing w/ medal $135.

12.5” Campbell Kids all original pair, she has slight crazing & 1 eyes paint as is $95.

13.5” Effanbee Candy Kid with original shoes & vintage clothing $95. 14” All compo Sweet Baby with tin flirty eyes, redressed $95.

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15” Joseph Kallas “Joy” with compo head & torso & wood jointed limbs, repainted - head, lower arms & legs, sweet face $225.

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Appearing in Tiger Tim’s Annual in the early 1920s is this illustration entitled “Please, which is the way to the bunnie’s ball?”

Posed around it are: a 6.5” Gebrüder Heubach pouty in his bunny ensemble (photo courtesy of Sara Bernstein’s Dolls); a 3.5” Hertwig & Co. all-bisque flapper style doll wearing a molded bunny-eared hat (photo courtesy of Appletree Auctions); an Advance Doll & Toy Company’s “Wanda Walker” in her original bunny costume; and a Knickerbocker Rose O’Neill “Kuddle Kewpie”-faced bunny.

From dolls in bunny costumes it is just a quick hop to anthropomorphic rabbits. British illustrator Racey Helps’ drawing entitled The Late Scholars was published as a post card by the Medi Society Ltd. of London.

Gathered around it are; an Ideal Toy Co. vinyl mask-faced girl rabbit, a delightful mid-20th century schoolroom of small bisque dolls in bunny costumes (photo courtesy of Bertoia Auctions), a set of Baps rabbits, and Madame Alexander’s 12” “Bunny Belle” from the 1930s ((photo courtesy of Morphy Auctions).

More closely tied to themes of Easter are the early-20th century 6” German candy container featuring a bisque doll head (photo courtesy of Frasher’s Doll Auctions), six 9.5” – 15.5” plush rabbits with celluloid doll faces (photo courtesy of Merrill’s Auctioneers and Appraisers), and a 1950s Vogue Doll Co.’s “Crib Crowd” doll in her Easter Bunny Costume (photo courtesy of Morphy Auctions).

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Special Auction Services in Newbury, UK has a “Doll, Dolls’ House, Traditional Toy, and Teddy Bear“ Auction organized by Daniel Agnew on the June 21st and 22nd, 2022, It is online and a room auction! This auction will include dolls that may be familiar to readers of this magazine they will be sold in Part 1 of the estate of English antique doll collector, Jackie Wyartt who is a charter subscriber and reader of Antique DOLL Collector.

Jackie Wyartt, a long-time collector of antique dolls, was inspired by her grandmother, who ran the Birmingham SAS Auction doll’s hospital between the wars, up Services until her death in the early 1950s. Jackie Top: Early English Wooden bought many Bottom: French items from Character doll people known to her via Antique Doll Collector magazine. She loved large dolls measuring at 25/28.”

Especially bisque and china shoulder heads, papiermâché, English woodens, SAS Auction Services Native American Indian dolls, China shoulder head and much more. Part 1 of her collection includes over 300 dolls. A highlight includes four important Polish folk dolls made in Bergen-Belsen. p.s. Daniel is co-organizer with Hilary Pauley of 200 Years of Childhood, the London International Antique Doll, Teddy Bear, and Toy Fair. Absent for two years due to Covid, but now, fingers crossed, happening in London, October 8th/9th, 2022. Visit their website at www.200yearsofchildhood.com/ for more information.

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Alderfer Auction Left: R John Wright doll Right: Baby doll with antique bisque heads.

Representative dolls from the April 5-6 auction.

Alderfer’s in Pennsylvania has something for everyone in their two-day on-line April antique doll auction. It is scheduled for April 5th and 6th, 2022.

The auction features two great collections; Part 1 is the estate of Judith B Reis, and Part 2 has dolls from the collection of Betsy Steger. Highlights include Doll Artists, UFDC, German Bisque, French, MultiFaced, and dolls made of Composition and Cloth You will also find a selection of Half Dolls, All Bisque, Figurines, China, Papier Mâché, Wax, Holiday/ Novelties, plus Black and Native American antiques.

For more information, see the ad in our March issue and go to www.alderfers.com.

Also in Europe, Galerie de Chartres is getting ready for their May 21st, 2022 auction of Collectible Dolls, including two Belgian collections. For more information about this auction, follow the website for Ivory-Chartres at ivoire-france.com/chartres/.

And results for the Wendl Spring Auction on March 3-5, 2022, can be found on the auction house’s site, www.auktionshauswendl.de. One result is listed below is number 569, “My new favorite” Kämmer and Reinhardt closing at 1,000 € or $1100 US.

Wendl - #569 “My New Favorite”. Kämmer & Reinhardt.

Market “K & R Simon & Halbig 117n Germany 70”. From 1911.

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Friday-Saturday, April 1-2, 2022 Spring Auction 0049 (0) 6203 13014 | mail@spielzeugauktion.de www.spielzeugauktion.de

Alderfer Auction

Tuesday-Wednesday, April 5-6, 2022 at 10AM both days Catalog of Antique and Other Fine Dolls Online Auction. From the Estate of Judith B. Ries; The Collection of Betsy Steger and others.

501 Fairgrounds Road, Hatfield, PA 19440 215.393.3000 | www.alderferauction.com

Sweetbriar Auction Saturday, Apr 9, 2022 Saturday, June 11, 2022 Antique & Vintage Doll Auction 700 Highland Drive, Westampton, NJ 410.275.2213 | sweetbriar@live.com www.sweetbriarauctions.com

Theriault’s

Saturday, April 9, 2022 Marquis: The Madame Alexander Collection of Judith Merrill Saturday, April 30, 2022 Marquis: Antique Doll Auction Saturday, May 1, 2022 Marquis: Antique Doll Auction 410.224.3655 | info@theriaults.com www.theriaults.com

Withington Auctions

Doll Auctions in Spring and Fall, 2022 TBD DoubleTree by Hilton, 2 Somerset Pkwy, Nashua, NH Hotel RSVP: 603-886-1200 (ask for the doll rate) 603.478.3232 | withington@conknet.com www.withingtonauction.com

C and T Auctions

Thursday, May 5, 2022, 10:30 am Dolls, Dolls Houses & Teddy Bears Auction ++44(0) 7736668702 leigh.gotch@candtauctions.co.uk www.candtauctions.co.uk

Galerie de Chartres

Saturday, May 21, 2022 Collectible Dolls-Two Belgian Collections +33 (0)2 37 88 28 28 chartres@galeriedechartres.com www.ivoire-chartres.com and www.interencheres.com/2800

Daniel Agnew

Tuesday-Wednesday, June 21-22, 2022 Doll, Dolls’ House, Teddy Bear and Toys Auction + 44 (0) 751 500 4635 daniel@danielagnew.com | danielagnew.com

Joyce Kekatos joycedolls@aol.com 917-859-2446 or 718-863-0373

I buy dolls and will sell on consignment. LAYAWAY AVAILABLE • Member UFDC & NADDA www.grandmasatticdolls.com • Look for me on Ruby Lane!

16.5” E. 7 J Jumeau Bebe, gorgeous pale bisque, big pw eyes, orig. mohair wig, orig. knit dress w/ red silk under layers of lace, orig. slip & undies, ant. Fr. leather shoes & Jumeau earrings, orig. str. wrist “signed” Jumeau body.

BREATHTAKING!! $6200.

15” S & H #1279 Character, mint bisque, gorgeous sl. eyes, orig. mohair wig, “FACTORY ORIGINAL” batiste dress, slip, undies, leather shoes & socks, orig. S & H body, BEST #1279 character face w/desirable flyaway brows, dimples & the most beautiful eyes. GORGEOUS!! $2275.

8” K * R w/Trunk & Trousseau, sl. eyes, mint bisque, orig. mohair wig, “FACTORY ORIGINAL” incl. trousseau w/3 dresses, nightie, bone hand painted fan & trunk w/lock & key, wears orig. costume, shoes & hat, orig. K * R body w/jointed knees.

BEAUTIFUL!! $2750.

21” S & H #949 Closed Mouth Character, early closed dome, mint bisque, pw eyes, orig.

HH wig, orig. woolen dress & jacket w/ batiste underdress, ant. undies & shoes, orig. early S & H str. wrist body, fabulous modeling.

A STUNNER!! $2250.

13” JDK #245 “Hilda” Toddler, sl. eyes, mint bisque, orig. mohair wig, orig. brushed cotton dress, ant. hat & undies, orig. fully jointed JDK toddler body w/str. wrists.

The BEST!!! $2500.

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You’re invited to

The Antique Doll Collector “Spring Has Sprung” Doll Show & Sale

(In print and online on Facebook)

Tuesday-Thursday, April 12-14, 2022

You’ll discover dealer booths chock full of fabulous antique, vintage, and artist dolls, clothes, patterns, bears, miniatures, furniture, and so much more.

The Print Show:

Access the show in this issue of Antique DOLL Collector magazine, pages 17-19. Your dealer friends will be waiting to connect with you so please contact them with questions and to buy. Have fun!

The Virtual Show (on Facebook):

To attend, sign up to follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AntiqueDOLLCollectorMagazine.

Beginning April 12th at 1 PM Eastern time the doll show will be available to access. ♥ Start shopping at 1 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, April 12th. ♥ Stop shopping at 9 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, April 14th. ♥ Admission is free. ♥ Additional dealers included online. ♥ Dealers will be adding dolls and updating their inventory throughout the show, so check back often.

Great Door Prizes!!!

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1) Rare small size, composition Scootles designed by Rose O’Neil and made by the Cameo Doll Co. starting in 1925......................All original 8” Scootles ~ $800 ................................................................................ All original 9” Scootles ~ $600 2) 22” Simon & Halbig, Santa Mold number 1249, circa 1889...........................$895 3) 6” all Bisque, swivel neck Kestner #620 with original basket and extra clothing....... $795 4) 16” Mibs by Louis Amberg & Sons circa 1921.................................................$895 5) 10” Googly #323 by Armand Marseille circa 1910........................................$895

All Dolled Up Gail Lemmon

440-396-5386 | glemn@frontier.com 13100 Durkee Rd., Grafton, OH

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17.5” Depose Tete Jumeau, blue PW eyes, HH wig, antique clothing ............... $2495 20” K * R 101 Marie w/ blue painted eyes, mohair wig, antique clothing ............ $1595 15.5” Alexander RARE all original Nurse in tagged outfit, princess Elizabeth face $350 20” Kestner J 167 10, brown sleep eyes .................................................................$595 16” Terri Lee All Original Irish Lass, Platinum Blonde ..............................................$190

Gigi’s Dolls & Sherry’s Teddy Bears 773-594-1540 | questions@gigisdolls.com www.gigisdolls.com

1) Kestner baby 257, 10 inches, brown hair brown eyes..................................... $275 2) BSW Toddler 2097,15 1/2 inches, blond hair, blue eyes................................ $600 3) K*R Toddler 122, 15 inches, blond hair, blue eyes has cheek rub................... $400 4) Simon & Halbig 1248 Santa, 20 inches, brown hair, brown eyes...................$650 5) Heinrich Handwerk 21 inches, blue eyes, blond hair..................................... $400 Antique French wicker loveseat. $250 - Easter wreath - $35 - Easter Basket $25

TOP-Earliest 18” EJ w/orig. Jumeau blue ensemble.................................................... $10,800~ RT-17.5” China Glazed Huret in Tartan Plaid on Wood Body. ........................Please Call/Email BOT R-Superb 14.5” Rohmer w/ artic. arms. Marked Torso. Call for Details!................$8,600~ BOT LT-11” Prem. Jumeau marked only ant. wig, orig. gold Jumeau shoes, costume...$9,300~ LT-18” Fr. Fashion Poupée in ant. plaid wool, silks & velvet. DELUXE artic. Body..........$9,850~

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Marion Maus

Bradley Justice

mmausantiques@gmail.com 443-838-8565

1) 32 1/2” Jumeau French Bebe.......................................................................$2,500 2) 10” German Bisque Closed Mouth AM 323 Googly Doll.............................. $775 3) 23” Kley & Hahn Walkure................................................................................. $325 4) 18” Tete Jumeau La Petit Parisien Bebe Steiner Bisque French Doll..............$975 5) 22” Lenci Doll in Peach Colored Taffeta Dress - 22” tall..................................$425

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16” Tagged #7 Izannah Walker repro by Lucille Totman, Maine 1996............... $225 5.5” NASB #86 Family Series Bride w/ box–both excellent, frozen legs..............$85 35th Anniversary “Original 1959 Barbie Doll w/ Package!” 1993 SE, NRFB.............$45 14” Armand Marseilles 370. All original w/ kid body & upper arms, cloth legs......$325 9.5” Rare, early Lenci Mascotte. Pre-WWII Italian Soldier. 2021 UFDC 2nd ........$350

eclectic-collective Monica Bessette

monica.bessette@gmail.com Accepts Paypal only. Payment must be received within 3 days of sale.

Does not ship internationally.

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1) 3-D, Doll Painting of Alice by artist Nancy Latham, 19” l x 10” w.....................$850 2) Little Bo Peep/3 sheep - 8” All felt one of a kind by T. Watson.......................$899 3) Louisa 7” wooden doll by Erika Catellani.........................................................$536 4) The Mad Hatter by R.J. Wright, All felt 16-18”................................................$1875 5) 3 pc one-of-a-kind set - Alice/Rabbit/Cheshire Cat on wooden frames 9 x 10”

by Friedericy....................................................................................................$999

Diane’s Doll Shoppe 203-531-3370 www.dianesdollshoppe.com ddrake5555@aol.com

1) Antique 19” German Bisque Kammer Reinhardt 192 Closed Mouth Doll 2) Antique French 23” SFBJ 60 Bisque Doll 3) Antique Papermache Horse Toy, German 4) Ca. 1910 19” Antique German RARE Closed Mouth 183 526 Kley Hahn Character Doll 5) 23” German Wax Fashion lady Staatdamen with unique painted gloves and boots RARE 6) Antique 23” Fully Jointed German Mohair Teddy Bear With Shoebutton Eyes

Anne Demuth

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1) 20” French Musical Automaton “Little Girl with Doll and Opera Glass” by Lambert, 1890. Blue-eyed Tete Jumeau, all original, functions well........... $5750 2) 18” French bisque blue-eyed bébé , J Steiner Fre A....................................$3900 3) 20” French musical automaton “Little Girl with Basket of Flowers and Butterfly”

by Lambert,1890, Brown-eyed Tete Jumeau, functions well......................$4500 4) 9” Sonneberg Bisque, blue-eyed bébé, Jumeau look-alike, incised 117...... $1795 5) 17” French bisque brown-eyed bébé by Jumeau, 7, closed mouth, signed Jumeau shoes........................................................................................................$4200 The 16” Jules Steiner Bebe has an appealing delicate face and the Sasha Boy is a Limited Edition Prince Gregor with elegant attire including a feathered hat.

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Museum Review

by Eliza de Sola Mendes

Miniatures in the Imaginative Eyes of

Walt Disney

Exhibition Review: Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Wallace Collection.

Catalog: Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts by Wolf Burchard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Distributed

by Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

ISNB: 9781588397426 Hardcover, 240 pages, $50.00

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Entrance Gallery of the Exhibition (Eliza de Sola Mendes)

his interactive exhibition can be experienced virtually by going to: https://www.metmuseum. org/exhibitions/listings/2021/inspiring-walt-disney.

The exhibition has a visitor’s audio guide introduced by actress Angela Lansbury. Exploring the site, you can do a virtual walkthrough of the exhibition, listen to lectures, and more.

Walt Disney (1901-1966), founded his studio in 1923, creating an animation empire that remains today the embodiment of his constantly surprising and unbridled imagination. This exhibition, devoted to Disney’s legacy and the French Decorative Arts, is a first for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Wallace Collection, in London where it will travel this spring. It includes sixty works of European 18th century decorative arts and design from tapestries and furniture to Boulle clocks and Sevres porcelain. The show also brings together 150 production artworks and works on paper from the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, The Walt Disney Archives, The Walt Disney Imagineering Collection, and The Walt Disney Family Museum.

The exhibition showcases the significant influence of miniatures on Disney’s creative vision. Walt’s love of finely scaled miniatures developed through his numerous visits to Europe starting in 1917, and subsequently through the 1960s. By the 1950s Disney had acquired more than 1,000 miniatures including paintings, model cars, books, pistols, and musical instruments. He found

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pieces for his personal collection, “when leisurely perusing the Marche aux puces in Paris, Portobello Road in London, Third Avenue in New York, and the Farmer’s Market in Los Angeles.” Some items he purchased came from catalogs in the US, and at one point he even had his secretaries put an anonymous advertisement in several American newspapers looking for, “Anything miniature to a scale of 1 ½ to the foot or under. Up to and including early 1900s. Give full description and price.”

Disney initially thought of his collecting as a form of relaxation, and a “recreational pursuit.” He also began to

Miniature Album with the Prussian royal crown and photographs of Paris, ca. 1918 (The Walt Disney Family Museum)

Six chairs from Walt Disney’s collection of miniature furniture, from left to right: William and Mary arm chair, Schinkel dining room chair, Victorian rocking chair, Windsor chair, antler chair, mid 20th century (The Walt Disney Family Museum)

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Doll Bed Walt Disney, Four-post bed with steps and bedding (miniatures), ca 1951 (The Walt Disney Family Museum)

Walt Disney Miniature Stove Works, Three hand-painted pot-bellied stoves, ca 1951 (The Walt Disney Family Museum)

make miniature furniture, notably stealing fabric from one of his daughter Diane’s dolls for the coverlet for a small bed, for which she was not pleased. “My hobby,” Walt wrote to a friend in 1951, “is a lifesaver. When I work with these small objects, I become so absorbed that the cares of the studio fade away…at least for a time.” A statement surely universally all collectors can relate to.

Gradually, his miniature collecting would play a pivotal role in his work.

A major influence for Walt Disney from the miniature world were the room boxes of Narcissa Niblack Thorne (1882-1966).

In 1939 he visited the San Francisco Golden Walt Disney Miniature Stove Works, Gate International Three hand-painted pot-bellied stoves, ca 1951 (The Walt Disney Exposition, and it Family Museum) is believed that this experience increased his interest in miniature collecting.

Thorne’s artisan crafted miniature rooms from the 16th to early 20th century were seen there by more than one million visitors, including Disney.

For Walt Disney, Mrs. Thorne’s “shadow boxes” (miniature rooms without one wall), were similar to movie stage sets and helped draw in a child’s imagination.

Disney wanted to do the same in his films and theme parks. While her French salons in perfect miniature scale, and the European castles he had visited influenced him with décor, the 18th century dancing couples seen on some of the miniature Limoges plates he collected, helped spark his imagination for movement and storytelling.

Where Walt Disney and Narcissa Thorne differed in approach to the miniature was evident with Disney’s creation of “Disneylandia,” a set of 24 rooms displaying an old American Western town. For Thorne, there were purposely no figures in her creations, though a miniature

Disney Studio Artist, story sketch for “The China Shop” film

Johann Friedrich Luck, Hochst Manufactory, Two dancers, ca 1758 (Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Limoges group of so called Fragonard plates and other miniature plates, collected

by Walt Disney, mid-20th century (photo: Eliza de Sola Mendes)

book might be opened in one of her interiors, as if an imaginary person had only just left the room. Disney on the other hand, wanted figures to occupy the spaces of his miniature visions.

This is where the artistic merging of the miniature and animation begins to form in the mind of Walt Disney.

He envisaged a traveling exhibition, similar to the way the Thorne Rooms were originally exhibited, only his concept was, “a miniature Americana village inhabited by mechanical people nine inches high who sing and dance and talk to you as you peek through the windows of their tiny shops and homes.” Eventually the miniature world of “Disneylandia” would be replaced by the life size theme parks “Disneyland” and “Disneyworld.”

Ultimately, it was miniatures which had been the magical key to open the door of his imagination.

The exhibition has been organized by Wolf Burchard, Associate Curator in The Met’s Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. The show closes at the Met on March 6th. It travels to the Wallace Collection in London, opening April 6th 2022-October 16th, 2022.

We want to thank The Metropolitan Museum of Art Press Office, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Walt Disney Family Museum for the use of photographs in this article.

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July 4, 1862…

The Day That Brought Us

Alice In Wonderland

By Susan Foreman

Chapter I

Down the Rabbit-Hole

Charles Dodgson’s original handwritten manuscript now resides in the British Library.

“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?’

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’ (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.”

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The story must begin with Charles Lutwedge Dodgson who would one day be better known by his pen name: Lewis Carroll. Charles was born in England in 1832. He was part of a large and loving family of eleven children. He grew up in the Daresbury Parsonage in Cheshire where his father was the Archdeacon.

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Alice Liddell and Charles Lutwedge Dodgson

Left and center: 1898 edition of Alice in Wonderland.

Right: 1898 edition with both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Both feature John Tenniel illustrations.

“Charlie” was a precocious child. He adored mathematics and drawing, built toy theaters and marionettes, and from his father acquired an early love of nonsense (Edward Lear had recently published his Book of Nonsense which popularized this literary genre). From an early age Charles loved to amuse little girls, specifically his eight sisters, by performing magic acts and writing family magazines. While confident at home, beyond home he was withdrawn, awkward, and selfconscious. Adding to that, he stammered.

His few years at boarding school, Rugby, were miserable, so he was home schooled the last year, before leaving for Christ Church, Oxford, in 1851. Graduating with a first in mathematics, he became a fellow at 23, ordained a deacon at 29, and remained a bachelor don at Oxford until his death in 1898.

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Three artists’ interpretations of the Mad Tea Party. Mabel Lucie Attwell in 1910, Salvador Dali in 1969, and Nancy Wiley in 2009. (All books from my personal collection)

Left: Vivian Tobin as Alice, 1915. Center: My Alice doll at Midstate Fair. Right: My Alice with RJ Wright White Rabbit.

It is through this connection that Charles first met the Liddell family in 1855, when Henry George Liddell became Dean of Oxford. This initial encounter led to his eventually meeting Alice Liddell, who would become the star of Alice in Wonderland.

Alice Liddell was born in 1852, the fourth of ten children. Alice, along with her sisters, Edith and Lorina, first met Charles Dodgson on April 25, 1856, as he and a friend were setting up to photograph Christ Church Cathedral from the garden of the Dean’s residence.

Over the next few years, Charles would become a close friend of the Liddell family. Alice and her sisters were frequent models for his photography, and he often took the children on outings.

The July 4, 1862 outing, however, would prove to be the most remarkable one ever. Charles and his friend Robinson Duckworth (that sounds like a name right out of Alice in Wonderland) both dressed in white flannel trousers wearing straw boaters, and the three Liddell girls (Alice, Edith, and Lorina, aged ten, eight, and thirteen) dressed in white cotton dresses and wide-brimmed hats, crossed Christ Church Meadow to Folly Bridge, picked up a boat, rowed three miles upstream to Godstow, went ashore, and unpacked their picnic hamper. Alice later recalled that, as they took tea on a shaded bank, she implored Carroll to “tell us a story” and the tale of Alice began.

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Left to right: 1910 U.S. silent film (photo imdb.com), the 1933 Paramount version (photo TCM), and the 1951 Disney animated film (autographed lobby card, my personal collection)

Left: 24”, circa 1864, swivel neck china with Alice band. She wears her original dress and was once in the important 19th century collection of Henri Rene d’Allemagne.

Right: 9” Taufling baby with “Alice band”, circa 1865.

(All dolls shown are from the author’s collection unless otherwise noted)

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pon their return, Alice Liddell asked Mr. Dodgson to write the story down for her. Two years later, and after much procrastination, he finally presented her with the manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground in November of 1864.

While putting the words on paper for Alice, Dodgson decided to rewrite the story as a possible commercial venture. Prior to gifting the original manuscript to Alice, he sent a copy to a friend, the author George MacDonald, in the spring of 1863. The MacDonald children read the story and loved it. This enthusiastic response no doubt encouraged Dodgson to seek a publisher. The book, retitled Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was published in 1865, with Dodgson’s pen name, Lewis Carroll as the author and illustrations by John Tenniel. A second book, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, followed in 1871. Tenniel was as much of a perfectionist as Carroll, and his artistic talents added a new dimension to the story.

When the original story was published in 1865, even Queen Victoria proclaimed the new novel excellent. “Alice” set itself apart from other children’s literature of the time in that it was pure entertainment, rather than containing any elements of instruction. Dodgson’s love of “nonsense” is apparent throughout the Alice stories.

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An amazing set of Alice characters made by Martha Chase, circa 1905 (Strong Museum collection).

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ome of the characters Dodgson depicted as he began to weave this story appear to be based on real people.

The White Rabbit for example is based on Dean Liddell who was notorious for being late for services at Christ Church. In Chapter 3 we encounter A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale depicting Alice as Alice, the Dodo is Charles who often, because of his stutter, would pronounce his last name as Dodo-Dodgson, the Duck is Mr. Duckworth, and the Lory and Eaglet are Alice’s sisters Lorina and Edith. Queen Victoria inspired the Queen of Hearts and, in Chapter 9, the “drawling master” is in reference to art critic, John Ruskin, while the Mad Hatter is based on Thomas Randall, who actually was a hatter in Oxford.

It is this cast of characters that so inspired artists; John Tenniel was the first, after Lewis Carroll, who illustrated the original manuscript. One can only imagine the interaction of these two perfectionists. It is known that Carroll often questioned Tenniel’s drawings and Tenniel likewise questioned Carroll’s prose. Despite this challenging relationship the results were outstanding.

When the copyright on the original book with the Tenniel illustrations expired in 1907, new editions quickly appeared featuring illustrations by numerous artists including Mabel Lucie Attwell in 1910, Salvador Dali in 1969, and the talented doll maker-artist Nancy Wiley in 2009.

By the late 19th-century Alice was appearing on stage. The first Alice on the American stage was Vivian Tobin in 1915.

She starred as Alice both in Chicago and in New York. This “Alice” is very special to me, in that she was the mother of a friend of mine. In 1995, I created a Vivian Tobin/Alice doll and actually won Best of Show at the California Midstate Fair.

Technological innovations in entertainment brought Alice to the “moving pictures.” As early as 1903, an English version of Alice appeared. In 1910, Alice was adapted to a

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In 1934 Madame Alexander joined with Tony Sarg to create a line of marionettes, including this extremely rare Humpty Dumpty from Through The Looking Glass Tenniel’s depiction of Humpty Dumpty (right).

10-minute-long silent film in the U.S. directed by Edwin Porter (famous for The Great Train Robbery film). The 1933 Paramount film features an array of now famous stars including Charlotte Henry, W.C. Fields, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, and Edward Everett Horton. And in 1951 Disney debuted the animated version with Kathryn Beaumont as the voice of Alice.

Manufacturers’ took advantage of the popularity of Alice and soon she was advertising a vast range of products from refrigerators and televisions to beer and automobiles. And merchandise depicting Alice seemed to appear everywhere with dolls being the perfect vehicle.

By the mid-1860s dolls began to appear with the popular “Alice band.” Alice did not have a headband in Alice in Wonderland. It was not until Through the Looking Glass that John Tenniel gave her something to keep the hair out of her eyes.

In 1935, Madame Alexander introduced a 7” composition Tiny Betty as Alice which was made for just one year.

The petticoat of her original outfit still retains a gold paper label stating “wig contains 75% wool.”

Madame Alexander definitely liked “Alice.” In 1936, she introduced the 13” composition Alice using the Wendy Ann face. This example has the swivel waist.

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In 1946, Madame Alexander’s composition Alice used the Margaret face as seen in this 18” example.

In 1951, turning to the new medium of plastic, Madame Alexander introducd this 14” Alice with the Maggie face.

In 1938, Nancy Ann Abbott (think Storybook dolls) found Alice to be perfect for this early bisque Judy Ann.

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The marked bisque Nancy Ann Storybook doll at left below dates to 1943. While the photo at right was the reintroduced bisque Nancy Ann Storybook Alice from 2008. The new interpretation of the Storybook doll, although short-lived, was sculpted by Dianna Effner.

During the post WWII years in Germany Edith von Arps and Hilda Bartel created these wonderful cloth miniature Alice and the White Rabbit. Their dolls were marketed under the trade name BAPS.

In 2015, R. John Wright created a felt limited edition Alice with a flamingo.

This is #120 of 250. She is currently displayed in front of an original cell from Disney’s 1951 animated feature.

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n 1933, Madame Alexander introduced her cloth “Alice” dolls. The 15” tall doll in blue was advertised

by Gimbel’s in 1934 as their most popular doll, selling for $1.50. Her original costume has a cloth label stating, “Original Alice in Wonderland/Trademark US Pat. Off/ Madame Alexander, NY”. The 13” example wears her original dress tagged “Original Alice in Wonderland/ Trademark 304,488/Madame Alexander NY” and retains her original paper tag noting that she was licensed by permission of Macmillan Publishers.

While there is so much to be shared about Alice, this article will conclude for now with Alice Liddell and Charles Dodgson saying farewell. May the legacy of Alice continue for generations to come.

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Hertwig & Co. CHINA DOLLS:

Not Just Low-Brows

by Mary Elizabeth Lampron Groupé

This article is dedicated to the memory of Mary Gorham Krombholz, whose pioneering work in the field of china dolls has taught me so much.

Four Hertwig china dolls which do not have low-brow hairstyles.

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ertwig & Co. was founded in 1864, to produce porcelain and earthenware.

The new factory was located in the village of Katzhütte, in the German region of Thuringia. Katzhütte had formerly been home to an iron-smelting company. The iron-smelting company, whose physical plant still existed, had once employed most of the working population of Katzhütte. Now unemployed and impoverished, these former iron-smelting workers worked the forest during the summer. During the winter, they molded porcelain figures for the Scheibe-Alsbach porcelain factory. Thus, Hertwig & Co. was able to acquire in Kazthütte both a physical plant and an available workforce with experience in porcelain manufacture. By 1888, only twenty-four years after it became a company, nearly all the inhabitants of Katzhütte were employed by Hertwig & Co. Three hundred people were employed at the factory and another six hundred as cottage workers.

In 1865, only one year after its founding, the company took part in the Leipzig Fair. An advertisement in the Leipzig daily newspaper, published on April 28, 1865, stated that Hertwig & Co. had samples in its showroom of “bathing children and doll heads.” The Hertwig company would be an enduring presence in doll manufacturing, surviving both World Wars. After World War II, when the Allied Powers partitioned Germany, Thuringia lay in the new communist country of East Germany. The company was finally confiscated by the East German government in 1953, ending almost a century of ownership by the Hertwig family.

A very important area of doll production by the Hertwig company was its china dolls.

Hertwig is known for its china dolls with low-brow hairstyles and, indeed, the company produced such dolls in enormous quantities.

Shown in Illustration 1(a) is a typical example of a Hertwig china with a low-brow hairstyle.

Dolls with such a hairstyle, where the hair comes down fairly low on the doll’s forehead, were produced in great numbers beginning in the 1890s. Another well-known example of a Hertwig low-brow china doll is the doll shown in Illustration 1(b). This doll is commonly known as a “pet name” china, as each doll had her name printed in raised letters painted in gold on the front of her shoulder head. There were also child versions of the low-brow Illustration 1(a). An example of a Hertwig china doll with a hairstyle, as seen in Illustration 1(c). low-brow hairstyle.

Hertwig sold low-brow china dolls such as these well into the twentieth century.

And because they were sold in such large numbers, there are many extant examples.

The large number of these dolls available for purchase has had the unfortunate consequence of rendering them common and, therefore, undesirable to some collectors. Moreover, the prevalence of these dolls has caused many collectors to think that Hertwig only made low-brow china dolls. However, the china dolls produced by the Hertwig company were not limited to the low-brow model.

Illustration 1(b). A low-brow model commonly known as a “pet The Hertwig company, as mentioned above, name” china. This doll’s name, Marion, is written in raised letters began its existence in 1864. The china dolls on the front of her shoulderplate. with low-brow hairstyles did not become the Illustration 1(c). predominant model produced until 1890 or A child china thereabouts. In the intervening twenty-four doll with a lowyears, the Hertwig company produced some brow hairstyle. china dolls of great artistry and beauty. In this article, we will explore four such dolls.

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article have black, single-stroke eyebrows over an orangish-red line that indicates the crease of the upper eyelid. The upper eyelid and its eyelashes are represented by a black line. The dolls all have blue eyes that are neither outlined nor highlighted. The black pupils press up against the line of the upper eyelid. The eyes of a Hertwig china doll have the curious and distinctive feature of looking past the viewer; one cannot meet the doll’s gaze. The noses of Hertwig china dolls tend to be simply modeled and accented with orangish-red nostril dots, which are often carelessly placed. The mouth painting of Hertwig china dolls is quite distinctive.

The orangish-red upper and lower lips form a rounded heart shape. If you cover the line dividing the lips with your fingertips, the distinctive heart shape of Hertwig china dolls can be clearly seen. (For more information on the painting of the eyes and mouths of Hertwig china dolls, please see A Pictorial Reference Guide for German Chinas, by Mary Gorham Krombholz, p. 299.) The dolls in this article all have plump cheeks, which are highly blushed in pink. Finally, Hertwig shoulder heads either have two sew-holes on each side or lack sew-holes altogether. On its assembled dolls, the company glued the shoulder heads in place whether or not they had sew-holes. Gluing the shoulder heads was probably a cost-cutting measure, but it benefited the dolls by avoiding the tearing of the body, which can happen when the shoulder head is sewn on.

The doll shown in Illustration 2(a) has a modified flat-top hairstyle. This doll measures 21 inches tall, on a replaced body, with a shoulder head that is 6 inches tall.

Hertwig china shoulder heads are usually unmarked, but this one has an incised size number, “10”, on its back. This doll dates from the 1880s, when Hertwig & Co. made a variety of china dolls with flat-top hairstyles.

She is a massive doll, with a very large shoulder head and heavy china lower limbs.

I imagine that because of her large size and the lavish use of porcelain expended in her creation, she was an expensive doll to produce. Her black, painted hair is divided in the center by an unpainted white line. Her face is framed by a symmetrical arrangement of molded curls and waves that partially exposes her ears. Her nose is modeled with more detail than is usual with on Hertwig’s china dolls. The ridge of the nose is fairly sharp, and it has indented nostrils over an impressed philtrum. The lower lip is well modeled, as is the area on either side of the mouth. The left cheek has a speck of 32

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Illustration 2(b).

Front and back views of the doll’s shoulder head. The back of the doll’s shoulder head is incised with the number “10”.

Illustration 2(b). The arms are heavy from a lavish use of porcelain, long (beyond the elbow), and left- and right-hand specific.

Illustration 2(c). These lower legs, like the doll’s lower arms, are heavy from a lavish use of porcelain. They have expensive details, such as fine vertical ribbing on the stockings and gold paint accents on the shoes.

kiln dust, which has left a tiny hole. The neck is somewhat short. The shoulder head is very deep, which is unusual for a Hertwig china doll, as this was an area where porcelain could be (and was) conserved to save money. For this reason, Hertwig china shoulder heads are usually somewhat small in relation to the doll’s head. Despite its large size and massive weight, the shoulder head does not have sew-holes and would have been glued on the body. I wonder if this particular shoulder head was only available as a fully-assembled doll?

The doll’s body has unfortunately been replaced. It would be interesting to see the original body, particularly if it was a Hertwig factorymade body. Hertwig bodies tend to be rather long and thin, so this doll would have been as much as five to six inches taller on such a body, perhaps taller. The doll has retained her original china lower arms and lower legs, and they are very interesting. The arms, shown in Illustration 2(b), are long, as they include the entire elbow and part of the upper arm. The hands are right- and left-side specific. Such hands were more expensive to produce than interchangeable ones, as the manufacturer had to produce two differently shaped hands. They also made assembly slower, since each doll had to be matched with a left hand and a right hand. The doll’s hands also have separate thumbs, which are more difficult to mold than thumbs that lie alongside the fingers. The hands are slightly cupped and there is modeling of their palms.

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encompassing the entire knee. The legs are covered in white stockings with a very fine, molded, vertical ribbing that can barely be felt, although it can be seen. The top of the stockings has a molded, scalloped edge, and the stockings are tied above the plump, shapely calves with a painted blue garter ribbon. The doll wears brown painted, heeled boots which have been carefully outlined at the top edge with gold paint. The gold paint is another expensive detail, as it requires a separate firing. The boots are ornamented in the front with a molded pompom. Unlike the arms, the legs are interchangeable, as they are identical. I have never seen Hertwig porcelain legs that are right- and left-foot specific, nor have I seen them from another manufacturer, although perhaps they exist.

The doll shown in Illustration 3(a) is 14½ inches tall, with a shoulder head that is 3¼ inches tall. As mentioned above, Hertwig china shoulder heads are usually unmarked, but this one has what might be an incised size number, “l,” on the back of the shoulder plate (near the left-hand sew-hole). She is on a replaced Hertwig factory-made body, which has been covered in muslin. The replacement body is a fairly good fit for the doll. However, as the body is a replacement, albeit a Hertwigmade replacement, only the shoulder head will be discussed in this article.

This doll has an unusual and very beautiful hairstyle (see Illustration 3(b)).

A person I described it to said it is called a “waterfall.” The molded hairstyle is comprised of four large curls, two at the forehead and one at each of the temples. Below the temples, there are painted comb marks, which show how the hair is pulled back from the face and added to the mass of hair at the top of the doll’s head.

Behind the two forehead curls is a large knot of hair. Behind it are three more knots, arranged in a row across the top of the head, with a final knot behind this group of three. Seen from the front, the large knot, which was described first, appears to be the center of a flower, with the smaller knots and forehead curls acting as the petals.

There are more curls at the back of the doll’s head. Out of these depend two long vertical curls (sometimes referred to as “love locks”). The two vertical curls hang well below the doll’s neck, coming to rest on her back. It is difficult to paint a hairstyle such as this, as care must be taken not to get the hair color (in this case, black) on the white of the shoulder head. Perhaps this is why this hairstyle is not more commonly seen among Hertwig china dolls.

The shoulder head is turned very slightly

Illustration 3(a). Front and back views of the doll’s shoulder head.

Illustration 3(b). Four different views of the doll’s waterfall hairstyle. Note the two long curls hanging down the doll’s back and the comb marks at the temples.

to the doll’s left. The doll’s ears are both exposed by her hairstyle. Their modeling is very simple. The doll’s left cheek is more highly blushed than the right. The doll’s mouth, while the typical heart-shape, is missing the elongation of the lip painting on the left-hand side. Unlike the shoulder head of the previous doll, with its massive shoulder head, this doll’s shoulder head is barely large enough to seem in proportion to the head. It slopes steeply from the doll’s neck to her shoulders. The shoulder head has two large sew holes on each side.

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Illustration 4(a). Front and back views of the doll’s shoulder head.

Illustration 4(b). Four different views of the doll’s intricate, “figure-eight” hairstyle.

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the 1870s, has a wonderful, very unusual hairstyle (see Illustration 4(b)). The doll wears a very proud expression, as though she is fully conscious of possessing such an outstanding hairstyle. The doll’s hair, which is painted black, is asymmetrical in the front, with a molded curl hanging down onto her forehead and molded waves that frame her face. On the top and back of the head, the doll’s hair, in a molded braid, forms a raised figure-eight shape. The center of the figure-eight is crossed by a large, molded fold of hair that hangs down into the bottom half of the figure-eight.

The shoulder head is turned to the doll’s left. She has a high forehead which is accentuated by her hairstyle. The doll’s hairstyle leaves her molded ears fully exposed. There is an orangish-red accent dot at the inner corner of each eye. Such accents are not typical on Hertwig china dolls, although they appear on two of the four dolls discussed in this article. She has a small, slightly impressed philtrum beneath her nose. The heart shape of her mouth is somewhat elongated. (I discussed this doll with Mary Krombholz, as there was a question as to its manufacturer. She agreed that the doll was manufactured by Hertwig, and said that this mouth painting can be found on Hertwig figurines.) Her neck is longer than those of the other dolls studied in this article. The rather steeply sloping shoulder head is appropriately sized for the size of the doll’s head and has two sewholes on either side (but the shoulder head is glued in place).

The doll is on her original, factorymade Hertwig body, with its original china lower arms and legs. The lower arms are the interchangeable “spoon” variety. The hands have five digits but lack a defined thumb (see Illustration 4(c)). Hertwig made these arms with interchangeable hands for many of its dolls as a way of cutting costs.

It is somewhat surprising that Hertwig would use this type of arms on such a beautiful doll, but this undoubtedly helped the company keep costs down, which was of great importance to Hertwig in its competition with other doll manufacturers.

The doll’s lower legs, like the lower arms, are simply crafted. The legs, shown in Illustration 4(d), have dark blue garter ribbons tied in a painted bow and simple brown painted boots with a molded heel.

They are marked with the raised number “2.” The modeling and painting of the legs are not as elaborate as on the legs of the

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Illustration 4(c). Spoon-shaped hands are interchangeable, saving money in both manufacturing and assembly.

Illustration 4(d). Simply crafted lower legs.

flat-top doll discussed above. There is no fine vertical ribbing or scalloped edges, nor is there any gold trim at the top of the boots. Furthermore, it was a desirable feature to have large, shapely calves, and this doll’s calves are not quite as large (in proportion to the doll’s size) as those on the flat-top doll discussed earlier. While Hertwig was capable of making beautiful dolls, as this example clearly demonstrates, the company was always very focused on the economics of doll making. It also has to be kept in mind that doll companies, such as Hertwig, were not in the business of producing art objects that would be collected and cherished for more than 100 years. Such companies made toys, and the kind of details that we appreciate, as doll collectors, would probably not have been noticed or appreciated by the children the toys were meant for.

As mentioned above, the doll is on her original, factory-made Hertwig body.

Illustration 4(e). The doll is on her original factory-made Hertwig body.

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Illustration 5(a). Front and back views of the doll’s shoulder head.

The body is in very good condition, as shown in Illustration 4(e). The muslin body fabric has a lot of sizing in it, which was a way to make the fabric of the body seem heavier and of better quality than it really was. Curiously, the Hertwig company put a wire into the cloth bodies of some of its dolls. The top of the wire, which was bent into the shape of an upside-down “U,” was embedded in the sawdust of the lower torso.

The two free ends of the wire were then pushed into the upper legs and embedded in the sawdust there.

When the doll was placed in a seated position, the wire would bend and allow the doll to hold the seated position unaided until the body was straightened out again. I have come to refer to this as a “seating wire.”

Unfortunately, as the “seating wire” was repeatedly bent and straightened, it moved from its proper position in the sawdust of the torso and upper legs. As it did so, it frequently caused tears to the cloth of the upper legs and sometimes the torso of the doll. While this “seating wire” was not a good idea, for the reasons stated above, it was apparently considered a deluxe feature by the Hertwig company and was put in the bodies of its more expensive dolls.

Shown in Illustration 5(a) is a doll that measures 17 inches tall, with a shoulder head that is 4 inches tall. This is a very unusual Hertwig china doll. Male china dolls are not, in general, a common sight. While a number of child china dolls exist where the gender may be determined by the beholder, dolls like this one, which are clearly meant to be seen as male, are much less frequently found. I am not sure of the age of this china doll but I believe, based on his hairstyle and his molded, heeled boots that he probably dates from the period between 1866 and 1870.

The doll’s black, painted hair is parted on the left, with a part that is indicated by the hairstyle rather Illustration 5(b). The doll’s original factory-made body is somewhat frail.

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Illustration 5(c). Doll’s left arm, shown from both sides. The doll’s arms are left- and right-hand specific.

than with a line. The hairstyle is, as a result of the side parting, necessarily asymmetrical, with molded curls near the center of the forehead and at the temples. The remainder of the doll’s hair is very slightly modeled, with molded waves covering the top, sides and back of the head. There are painted comb marks at the doll’s temples. His hairstyle leaves both modeled ears fully exposed. He has a small orangish-red accent dot in the inner corner of each of his eyes. His nose is long and a little tip-tilted. The rather short neck meets a shoulder head with sharply angled sides that come together in a narrow center (where the two sew-holes are located).

The shoulder head is glued to the doll’s body.

The doll is on his original factory-made body, which is in somewhat frail condition (see Illustration 5(b)).

He has china lower limbs, consisting of lower arms that terminate slightly above the elbows and which are right- and left-hand specific. The fingers and thumb are not separated, but each of them is clearly delineated (see Illustration 5(c)). The lower legs are quite long, terminating, as they do, well above the knee. He wears

Illustration 5(d). Doll’s legs, with molded, low-heeled boots.

simple, painted black boots, which are modeled with a low heel (see Illustration 5(d)). As with the previous doll, this doll has a “seating wire.”

CONCLUSION During its prolific corporate existence, Hertwig & Co. would create millions of dolls. Many of these dolls are little considered by today’s collectors, partly because the enormous number produced renders them common. This is particularly true of the low-brow china dolls that Hertwig made. However, as this article has demonstrated, Hertwig made china dolls other than the low-brow model. These other china dolls, like the four described above, are dolls of great interest and beauty.

Hertwig & Co. achieved a number of goals. It brought affordably priced dolls to many people who wanted them. But it also created dolls of fantasy and beauty, some of which display a very high degree of craftsmanship. The china dolls shown in this article are, in and of themselves, proof that we would be the poorer without the products of this inventive, long-lasting doll company.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Bristol, Olivia, Dolls: A Collector’s Guide. London, England: De Agostini Editions Ltd., 1997.

2. Butler Brothers, catalogue, August 1921, p. 112.

3. Butler Brothers, catalogue, December 1929, p. 44.

4. Cieslik, Jürgen & Marianne, German Doll Encyclopedia: 1800-1939. Cumberland, MD: Hobby House Press, Inc., 1985.

5. Krombholz, Mary Gorham, A Pictorial Reference for German Chinas. Grantsville, MD: Hobby House Press, Inc., 2009.

6. Krombholz, Mary Gorham, Identifying German Chinas: 1840s - 1930s. Grantsville, MD: Hobby House Press, Inc., 2004.

7. Lampron Groupé, Mary Elizabeth, Hertwig & Co. Shoulderhead Dolls: 1890 - 1930. Great Mills, MD: self-published, 2012.

8. Theriault, Florence, Hertwig & Co. Archives: 1890 - 1937. Annapolis, MD: Gold Horse Publishing, 2000.

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Topper’s

Dawn Dolls by

Donna W. Brown

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and clothing as low as 50 cents. Dawn was much more opper Toys Corporation, originally Deluxe economical than other fashion dolls, and Topper bet on Reading, produced blockbuster dolls for repeat purchases. almost two decades, beginning with their The dolls came in rectangle boxes decorated with blue Grocery Store Dolls and more recently with Penny Brite, starry backgrounds, a large yellow oval behind the dolls, Reading Suzy Smart, and Suzy Cute. The founder and and fronts of transparent plastic. The girls all wore mini genius behind these dolls, Henry Orenstein, was looking dresses. The first Glori and Dawn dolls were labeled with for a new hit doll idea in the late 1960s. He knew that Japan on their back, but most were made in Hong Kong. even the most popular toy waxes and wanes over its They had holes on the bottom of their feet so that they lifetime, and right now he needed something spectacular. could have a clear plastic stand inserted which allowed Henry knew that Barbie had been a front runner for the dolls to pose. more than ten years and realized that little girls loved Barbie for her fashions and accessories, yet recent Barbie sales had been stagnant. Perhaps younger sisters yearned for a doll that their old sister hadn’t had. He decided it was time to go in a totally new direction with his dolls. Something new and bold, and tiny.

In 1969, Topper Toys employed more than 5,000 workers in their factory in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Henry set his engineers on a quest to miniaturize the Barbie doll. It had to be economical yet flashy. He supposed that the cost and size would allow for purchases of multiple dolls, and if the fashions kept changing and he added various playsets, Henry believed that he would soon outsell Mattel’s Barbie. Also, smaller dolls led to smaller displays which would let his fashion doll be exhibited in stores with little display space.

The doll that was finally created was a 6.5-inch fashion doll with a hard vinyl body, long straight blonde rooted saran hair, painted eyes with real lashes, and a swivel waist. She had soft vinyl legs with an inner core of copper and a mechanical knee that would bend and keep a pose. Dawn was released in 1970, along with three friends: brunette Angie, red-headed Glori, and African Maureen with side ponytail from Modeling Agency series wearing Fluted Flutter #8212 and Gary in original Dancing series outfit American Dale. The dolls sold for under $1.50

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Dawn and Glori with the canopy bed, dressing table and stool from Dawn’s Apartment set

Topper had numerous foreign factories produce their dolls, so the head molds and hair quality varied. The bodies were labeled with Hong Kong, Japan, or Taiwan.

The quality of the vinyl also differed in density, as did the size of the dolls’ limbs. Often the copper joints that made the knees bend turned the knees green over time.

The same year Topper added five more dolls to the Dawn family and reissued Dawn, Glori, Dale and Angie wearing different dresses. The new dolls included three boys, African American Van in a football uniform and helmet, brunette Gary and blonde Ron, both in colorful shirts and pants. Two new girls were added. Jessica was dressed in an airline stewardess outfit and had a blonde pageboy, while Longlocks was a brunette doll with hair below her knees. The dolls were given similar style packaging, but the backgrounds were now psychedelic or outdoor designs.

The original Dawn fashion dolls were released along with forty-four outfits packaged on boxed cards, much like Barbie’s. All outfits came with a pamphlet identifying outfits, a clothes hanger, clothes mannequins, shoes, and either a handbag, stockings, scarf, or another item, such as a telephone or tennis racket. The outfits had cute names like Flirty Flounce, Peachy Kean, Glamour Jams, and Groovy Gear. They can be identified as authentic by a metal or plastic z-shaped clip that slides into a cloth loop. Another fastener used was an elastic loop that fits over a round button. Often dresses were bright colors and had metallic trim. Shoes and boots can be identified by

Dawn’s friends, brunette Angie dolls and red headed Glori shown with the kitchen from Dawn’s Apartment set, missing table.

the holes in the bottom to access the doll stand. Because the clothing was manufactured in different countries, the same outfit could vary in the fabric, trim, and accessories.

In 1970, Topper released three series of Dawn clothing, 600, 700, and 800, which were all in pink and blue boxes.

Then in 1971, the 8100 series introduced forty new outfits in floral green boxes. In 1972 the 8200 and 8300 series outfits arrived in green packaging. Packages half the size have been found in green but did not come with a mannequin, are rare, and may only have been prototypes.

There were over two hundred Dawn outfits in all.

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Once Topper had their new fast-selling doll line, they quickly produced playsets for Dawn and her friends. Dawn’s Fashion Show playset was introduced in 1970. It consisted of a round plastic stage that spun so that two dolls could be attached and turn as they showed off their fashions. Two D batteries were needed to work the stage. The same year Dawn acquired a blue convertible with a chrome luggage rack and an antenna. It was motorized by two D batteries. In 1971 Dawn’s car was no longer battery-powered, but did have her name on the side, was pink, and decorated with flowers.

In 1970, Dawn had a Talking Sofa Telephone playset. It consisted of a blue chaise lounge and a buffet with a phone attached. The phone could be hooked to the doll’s hand and an actual double-sided record in the buffet could play six conversations. One C battery worked the record, but unfortunately, the set was very fragile, and it is difficult to find one in working condition.

Back of Dawn outfit package showing playsets: Dawn Fashion Show, Car, Sofa/Phone, Music Box/Pocketbook and Beauty Parlor At the same time, Dawn was given Dawn’s Beauty Parlor which included a sink, stool, chair, hairdryer, The nine original dolls soon were transformed into and accessories all in pink. Topper often recycled playsets the Dancing series. The dolls danced because there was a adapting them from one doll to another. This set had been mechanism that cause their hips and head to turn when a playset for Penny Brite, which is why it seems slightly the left arm was raised and lowered. The male dolls wore too large for Dawn and her friends. Dawn’s Apartment fringed vests, and the female dolls had either fringed furniture had also belonged to Penny Brite but was now dresses or long chains to swing as they danced. yellow and orange, not turquoise. This playset included Topper spent $4 million on an ad campaign in 1971, a canopy bed, dressing table with mirror and stool, a and took to television almost immediately to advertise kitchen cabinet with sink, a table, two chairs, and an the Dawn collection. The Dawn Beauty Pageant was array of dishes. marketed, and television ads used authentic pageant footage to create excitement about their new playset. It consisted of one Dawn doll and a pink plastic battery-

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Angie Head to Toe doll with three wiglets, 1972

Dawn clone doll, Diana, with similar packaging, clothing and poodle

powered stage with a long runway. The dolls could be attached, walk down the runway, and turn for the audience. A Dawn Deluxe Beauty Pageant soon followed, and the only difference is that it also came with a Gary doll in a tuxedo and Dawn had a fur-trimmed cape.

The black and white commercial for the Dancing dolls shows four preteen girls dancing with their Dawn dolls.

In the last scene, a man is shown dancing with a Dancing Dawn doll and the announcer says, “You’ll love to dance with Dawn and Dad will, too.” The man dancing with Dawn is the creator and President of Topper Toys, Henry Ornstein. In addition to television commercials, Topper placed ads in magazines and on the back of comic books.

Topper complimented the Dancing dolls with a Dance Party playset. Its plastic dance floor was bright with bold colors and a place to attach a dancing doll. Then a manual lever on the side was turned it moved the doll across the stage or side to side causing them to dance.

Sets came with either of two new friends, Fancy Feet with long straight platinum hair or Kevin with black hair. The two Dance Party sets could be attached to make one large floor. The two new dolls were sold only with the playsets.

Later a Double Dance Party was sold with both dolls and needed four D batteries to make the dolls dance.

Dawn’s Dress Shop soon followed and featured three full-length mirrors attached to a pink base with a gold stage that was turned by a knob on the side of the base. A doll could be attached to the center, and as she turned, she looked at her outfit from different angles in the mirrors.

Van in football uniform and helmet, 1970

Kip from the Majorette Series, 1972

Dancing Dale, head and hips turn when left arm is moved

Dawn was so popular that Topper engineers were working overtime to come up with more innovative dolls and playsets. The next dolls to be issued were the HeadTo-Toes series which included Dawn in 1971, and Angie and Longlocks in 1972. All three dolls had short bubble hairstyles but came with three wiglets; a fall attached to a headband, a short curly ponytail, and a long braided ponytail that clipped onto the doll’s hair.

Topper sold carrying cases for Dawn and her friends.

The first was white with a drawing of Dawn’s profile on the front and only large enough for one doll, clothing and accessories. The second was hot pink, covered in a flower design and large enough to hold Dawn and two of her friends. It had a clothing rod for an array of outfits and a drawer for accessories. Topper also sold a small case like the first, but it had the hot pink flower design like the larger case. Finally, Topper created a six doll case in blue with a drawing of Dawn and her friends dancing in a field of flowers.

Never to let the public wait for the next innovation, five new dolls were issued as the Model Agency Series. It included a brunette doll, Maureen, with a side ponytail held in a gold ribbon. Daphne had red hair placed in a ponytail on top of her head with two curls. The third model was Dinah, a platinum haired doll with two long braids. All three dolls can be identified by their straight, instead of arched, eyebrows. Also in the Model Agency was blonde Denise, who had a bun on top of her head and Melanie, who wore her black hair in a ponytail. Both had arched eyebrows.

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The Model Agency dolls were sold in elaborate gowns, and they all wore gold or silver jewelry, choker or chain.

Each doll had a matching plastic portfolio with her name on it and six photos of themselves inside. Once again, Topper had a winner and the sales kept booming.

On the back of each Model Agency package was an advertisement for Dawn’s Majorette series. There were four Majorette dolls, Dawn, April, Kip, and Connie decked out in typical majorette outfits with boots and hat complete with a feather plume. The costumes were in assorted colors with metallic accents. The dolls’ arms were rebuilt so they could swing together, and the right arm could spin a glow in the dark baton.

Topper sold Dawn Floral Stands in 1971, made to hold three dolls. They were molded plastic in yellow, blue or pink and did not capture the look of natural flowers. The last Dawn doll series, Dawn Floral Fantasies are coveted by collectors but were not as popular as the previous Dawn dolls. The Floral Fantasy series consisted of a Dawn doll standing on a flowerpot as if growing among artificial flowers and leaves. There were five flower types and color variations. The clothing was similar to other Dawn dresses, and there had been no innovations to Dawn.

During the height of the Dawn doll craze, many companies were licensed to manufacture Dawn related items. Whitman sold three different paper doll sets and a coloring book, while Colorforms used actual photos of Dawn, Glori and Angie for their set. There were Dawn umbrellas, Dawn combs, and a Dawn lunch box with thermos. McCall’s sold Dawn patterns and Milton Bradley had a knitting set for making clothes for Dawn.

Dawn and her friends seemed to be everywhere. In 1971, you could get a free Dawn doll with three Cheerios cereal box seals, but if you wanted the doll sooner you could send in one seal and 75 cents. If you had $2.00 to spend and one seal, you could receive Dawn, three outfits and accessories.

By 1972, Dawn was out selling Barbie.

When a doll is successful, it soon spawns clone dolls which usually are inferior copies and sold at cheaper prices; of course, Dawn had many look-alike dolls. The clones had molded or painted on eyelashes and were made of softer vinyl body parts. Many were manufactured in Hong Kong, and there is no company name on those dolls or packaging.

Playmate used the Topper head and body molds for their Barbra, but her lashes are molded. Another clone, Diana, has Hong Kong on her shoulders and her eyelashes were molded. Diana came with various hair colors and fashions with Topper imitation accessories, including a pet poodle.

There were also clone cases and playsets including furniture, a patio set, and game room all by Amsco.

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production, Dawn had already lost her sparkle. Maybe Over forty Dawn clones were sold, but the most girls got tired of the little dolls and moved on to other popular American competitor came out in 1971, and was toys, or perhaps the Dawn line had grown so quickly the Rock Flowers by Mattel. There were five different they had nowhere else to go. Yet, when listing successful dolls with decal eyes and jointed only at the neck, but fashion dolls, Dawn will always take her place near they had a great gimmick. Each doll came with a 45 the top of the list for originality and popularity. With record with an original song, and they could be attached Dawn, the old adage rings true, “Good things come in to the record and spun. Their additional clothes were sold small packages.” in record shape packages.

British toymaker, Palitoy made a highly popular Dawn clone, Pippa, in 1972. Over several years they produced over 30 different Pippa friends with varied nationalities. Pippa was much like Dawn, with a swivel waist and higher quality than most clones. Pippa also had playsets and spin-off merchandise.

As popular as Dawn and other Topper toys were, the New York Times reported the following on February 27, 1973, “The Topper Corporation of Elizabeth, N.J., yesterday filed a petition under Chapter XI of the Federal Bankruptcy Act in Federal District Court in Manhattan, listing liabilities of $32,795,000 and assets of $14,152,000. Liabilities include $14,244,000 owed to banks.”

During the bankruptcy, the old stock was repackaged and sold. Collectors look for mismatched or odd clothing and doll Dawn Dress Shop with three mirrors and turning stand, 1971 combinations from this time. At the end of

ABOVE: Two Topper Corporation confidential internal memos discussing items for the Deluxe Beauty Parlor Gift Set RIGHT: Topper Corporation internal memo naming and assigning Dawn outfits

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Calendar of Events Send in your Calendar Listing to: antiquedollcollector.com/enhancedevents.html or email events@antiquedollcollector.com or mail to Antique DOLL Collector, c/o Calendar, P.O. Box 349, Herndon, Virginia 20172. If you plan on attending a show, please call the number to verify the date and location as they may change.

LONG TERM 4/09/22-10/30/22 ~ Switzerland. Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel. Special exhibition “Happy Birthday Globi!” +41 (0)61 225 95 95. sina@swm-basel.ch. www.swmb.museum.

APRIL 2022 1-2 ~ Germany. Spring Auction. Ladenburger Spielzeugauktion. www.spielzeugauktion.de.

0049(0)6203-13014. mail@spielzeugauktion.de.

3 ~ Erlanger, KY. Doll Show & Sale. Triple Crown Doll Club. Holiday Inn Cincinnati Airport. Kathy Woods. 859-663-8298.

Kathymsn@zoomtown.com. Cathy Flaig.

859-689-4255. chflaig@fuse.net.

3 ~ Dedham, MA. Spring Dedham MA Doll, Bear & Folk Art Show. Collins Gifts. Holiday Inn Boston-Dedham Hotel. Wendy Collins. 603-9691699. CollinsGifts14@aol.com. collinsgifts.com.

5-6 ~ Hatfield, PA. 10 AM both days. Catalog of Antique and Other Fine Dolls Online Auction. From the Estate of Judith B. Ries; The Collection of Betsy Steger and others. Alderfer Auction. 215-393-3000. AlderferAuction.com.

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8-11 ~ Online. Wildlife & Teddies Teddy Bear Online Show. Valerie Rogers. 502-423-7827. brtstar1@aol.com. www.bright-star-promotions.com.

23 ~ Alexander, NY. Alexander Doll Show and Sale. Alexander Firemen’s Rec Hall. Rt 98. Linda Vilsack. 585-482-0835. dolllin@frontiernet.net.

9 ~ Scottsdale, AZ. Doll Show & Sale.

10am-3pm. World Doll Day Celebration, Grovian Doll Museum. Embassy Suites by Hilton, 5001 N. Scottsdale Rd. Mary Senko.

425-330-1770. mary.senko@comcast.net. www.WorldDollDayShows.com.

24 ~ St. Charles, IL. Chicago Toy Show. Kane County Fairgrounds, Lincoln Hwy/IL Route 38.

Herb@chicagotoyshow.com. 847-800-3009.

Diana@chicagotoyshow.com. 847-772-6760. www.illinoisdollshows.com/.

9 ~ West Chester (Cincinnati), OH. Spring Fashion Doll Show & Sale.Queen City Beautiful Doll Club. EnterTRAINment Junction Expo Room, 7379 Squire Court, 45069. Margie Schultz. 513-207-8409. askmargie@aol.com.

9 ~ Westhampton, NJ. Crescent Shrine.

Sweetbriar Auctions Antique & Vintage Doll Auction. Dorothy Hunt. 410-275-2213. sweetbriar@live.com. www.sweetbriarauctions.com 10 ~ St. Charles, IL. Kane County Doll Show.

Karla Moreland Presents. Kane County Fairgrounds. Prairie Events Center West. 525 S. Randall Rd. Karla Moreland. 815-356-6125. kmorela@ais.net.

24 ~ Northglenn (Denver), CO. Toy & Doll Supershow. Delta Hotels by Marriott Northglenn Denver. Dana Cain. 303-347-8252.

Dana@DanaCain.com. www.tdsupershow.com.

24 ~ Lancaster, PA. Doll, Toy & Teddy Bear Show. Lancaster Farm & Home Center. Ron Funk. 717-371-0395.

28-30 ~ Essington, PA. Doll & Teddy Bear Artist Convention. Clarion Hotel & Convention Center. Cindy Malchoff. 518-578-0006. dollnbearshow@tbai.com.

29-30 ~ Westminster, MD. In-house Yard Sale at Frizellburg Antique Store. 1909 Old Taneytown Rd. Information: 410-848-0664 or 410-875-2850.

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30 ~ Grapevine, TX. Doll & Toy Show & Sale.

Metroplex Doll Club. Grapevine Convention Center. Linda Crowsey. 903-429-0128. lindacc45@ hotmail.com. Rodney Waller. 817-988-8019. rwaller@swbell.net.

30 ~ Mt. Juliet (Nashville) TN. Doll & Bear Show & Sale. Community Center. Southeastern Doll Shows. Jackie Stone. jackiestone@charter.net. www.SoutheasternDollShows.com.

30 ~ Rossford (Toledo), OH. Toledo Doll, Bear & Toy Show & Sale. Total Sports Complex Rossford, 10020 S Compass Dr. Karen Kosies.

520-270-0179. toledo@dollshows.net. www.toledodollshow.net.

MAY 2022 7 ~ Maitland, FL. Doll Show & Sale. Greater Orlando Doll Club. Venue on the Lake Maitland Civic Center, Inc. Barbara Keehbauch.

407-678-5678. bkeehbauch@msn.com.

13-16 ~ Online. Spring Stars Teddy Bear Online Show. Valerie Rogers. 502-423-7827. brtstar1@aol.com. bright-star-promotions.com.

14-15 ~ Anaheim, CA. Huge Doll Estate Sale. 9 AM - 3 PM. 1304 S. Westchester Drive, 92804.

Sherryl Shirran. 174-343-4865. sherrylks@aol.com.

14-15 ~ Pecatonica, IL. 41st Semi-Annual “PEC THING” Antique & Flea Market. Winnebago County Fairgrounds. Off US Route 20, Halfway between Rockford and Freeport, IL. 815-239-1641. www.winnebagocountyfair.com. fairinfo@winnebagocountyfair.com.

15 ~ Madison Heights, MI. Doll Show & Sale.

Doll Show Productions. UA Local 98 Plumbers.

Michael Wolk-Laniewski. 248-252-9635. Jan Napier. 586-731-3072. jannapier69@gmail.com.

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MAY 2022 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 47 19-22 ~ Orlando, FL. “Out of This World” Doll Convention w/Public Sales Room. Fire-Flies Golden Age of Dolls. Avanti Palms Resort and Conference Center. Cynthia Harris. 321-431-3133 (Message). charris779@aol.com. fire-fliesdollconvention.com.

21 ~ Orlando, FL. “Under the Sea” Luncheon with Sales Room. Fire-Flies Golden Age of Dolls.

Avanti Palms Resort and Conference Center.

Cynthia Harris. 321-431-3133 (Message). charris779@aol.com. fire-fliesdollconvention.com.

21 ~ Seattle, WA. Doll Show & Sale. 10am-3pm.

World Doll Day Celebration, Grovian Doll Museum.

Doubletree Suites by Hilton, Seattle Airport/South Center, 16500 Southcenter Parkway. Mary Senko.

425-330-1770. mary.senko@comcast.net. www.WorldDollDayShows.com.

21 ~ Tucker (Atlanta), GA. Doll Show & Sale.

Atlanta Doll Collectors Club. Doubletree by Hilton Atlanta Northgate. Vickey Harris.

404-543-8866. vickeydharris@aol.com. Ebony. ebonyjb@hotmail.com. AtlantaDollCollectors.com.

22 ~ Paris, Fr. Cherubins Toy Show. Pavillon Ballard. Samy Odin. Cherubinsparis.com. samy.odin@cherubins.fr.

JUNE 2022 4-5 ~ Gaithersburg, MD. Doll Show & Sale.

Montgomery County Agricultural Center. SFB Events/S. Bellman. 239-440-3184 (message). sbellman714@gmail.com.

5 ~ Belleville, IL. Doll, Bear, &Toy Show. BelleClair Fairgrounds & Expo Center, 200 S Belt E #2650, 62220. Bobby Lee Frerking. 618-540-9054. bobbyleefrerking@yahoo.com.

10 ~ Elk Grove Village (Chicago), IL. Pullip and Dal Doll Lovers Convention. Puddle Convention. www.puddlestyle.com/.

11 ~ Milton (Pensacola), FL. Doll Show & Sale.

Pensacola Doll Study Club. Santa Rosa County Auditorium. Cindy Cosson. 708-528-0087. weedezigns@yahoo.com.

11 ~ Westhampton, NJ. Crescent Shrine.

Sweetbriar Auctions Antique & Vintage Doll Auction. Dorothy Hunt. 410-275-2213. sweetbriar@live.com. www.sweetbriarauctions.com 12 ~ Fullerton, CA. Summer Clearance. Hotel Fullerton. 1500 S. Raymond Ave. Rowbear Presents. Rowbear Lowman. 831-438-5349.

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12 ~ Naperville, IL. Naperville Doll & Teddy Bear Show. Karla Moreland Presents. Marriott Hotel. 1801 North Naper Blvd. Karla Moreland.

815-356-6125. kmorela@ais.net.

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

12 ~ Bismarck, ND. World of Dollhouses and Miniatures Doll Event and Sale. Bismarck Municipal Country Club. Bismarck Doll Friends.

Ila Marvel. 701-258-7869. imarvel@msn.com 17-20 ~ Online. Furry Frenzy Teddy Bear Online Show. Valerie Rogers. 502-423-7827. brtstar1@aol.com. bright-star-promotions.com.

21-22 ~ Newbury, UK. Dolls, Dolls’ Houses, Teddy Bears and Traditional Toy auction.

Special Auction Services, UK. RG14 5RL (If using SAT NAV please use RG14 5TR). 01635 580 595. Daniel Agnew. danielagnew.com.

26 ~ Sturbridge, MA. Sturbridge MA Spring Doll, Bear & Miniature Show & Sale. Collins Gifts. Sturbridge Host Hotel. 366 Main St., 01566. Wendy Collins. 603-969-1699.

CollinsGifts14@aol.com. www.collinsgifts.com.

JULY 2022 4 ~ Iowa City, IA. Ackerman’s July 4th Stars and Stripes Antique Market. Johnson County Fairgrounds. Ackermans. 319-338-8449 or 319-430-3737. ba_iowacity@yahoo.com.

9 ~ Fletcher (Asheville), NC. Doll & Bear Show & Sale. WNC Agricultural/Boone Bldg, 1301 Fanning Bridge Rd , 28732. Southeastern Doll Shows. Jackie Stone. jackiestone@charter.net. www.SoutheasternDollShows.com.

17 ~ Buena Park, CA. Doll Show & Sale.

Sherri’s Doll Show Featuring Barbie Dolls.

Holiday Inn, 7000 Beach Blvd. Sherri Gore.

424-394-7612. sherribean7@aol.com.

24 ~ St. Charles, IL. Chicago Toy Show. Kane County Fairgrounds, Lincoln Hwy/IL Route 38.

4th Sunday of April, July & October.

Herb@chicagotoyshow.com. 847-800-3009.

Diana@chicagotoyshow.com. 847-772-6760. www.illinoisdollshows.com/.

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