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Antique DOLL Collector May 2022 Vol. 25, No. 5

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Buying & Selling Fine Antique Dolls 1025 Bowman Rd., Westfield, NC 27053

Find my latest treasures in a charming setting.

Make an appointment to visit my private doll shop.

Socially distanced and by appointment only.

Please call or text me to make an appointment: 336.755.1400

You’ll be greeted by a fresh collection of brand new items, some pictured below!! Plus, my shop is always chock full of doll goodies galore and the option to buy, sell or trade! Choose from my large and well-priced collection of antique and vintage doll dresses, slips, chemise, pantaloons, shoes, wigs, ribbons, fabrics, furniture and accessories. Bring your dolls to dress, trade and repair. Have fun!!

If you are thinking of selling your doll treasures, I buy everything from one doll or doll accessory, to an entire collection. I pay excellent prices for dolls, shoes, clothes, wigs, miniatures, doll jewelry, doll houses, furniture and accessories.

Fresh Collection Just In! All NEW INVENTORY OF DOLLS AND ACCESSORIES For prices and descriptions visit my eBay store at anniepoojewels or call: 336.755.1400

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1. 22 1/2” Steiner Fre. A, French bebe, open mo., fully jointed compo body with “mama” pullstring, gorgeous antique costume. $2,450.

2. 9 1/2” Pair of early Simon Halbig dolls in orig. costumes, gl. eyes, molded hair, cl. mo., finely detailed painting. $1,995 for the couple.

3. 24” Supreme Kestner doll in harder to find mold 128, brn. sl. eyes, cl. mo., antique wig, fine quality Kestner compo body, exquisite antique bonnet and clothing. $1,675.

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Gorgeous 20 inch Bébé Jumeau - This is a stellar example of one of Emile Jumeau’s most popular creations. This darling has creamy bisque, enamel paperweight eyes, a beautiful original blue stamped body w/ clean original finish, a superb curly long-tail wig in rich honey blonde, and finally she is dressed in a charming couture costume of pale antique blues and creamy laces with a lovely matching chapeau. Wistful look of a young child. It’s easy to be entranced by her wide blue eyes fringed with lashes & softly painted brows. Generally Excellent condition. $3985

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Lovely DEP Jumeau - Here’s a very pretty girl with a split personality!

Twenty-six inch Bébé Jumeau DEP 12 marked on head with Bébé Jumeau label on body. She is priced at two different levels. She is available with an antique blonde wig or you may choose to purchase her with the deluxe antique long tail auburn wig. Looks adorable in either one. Her costume is lined with muslin gauze. At one time she had a voice box which no longer works. Her Bisque is free of damage. Her body bears the original patina. Priced $1185 in blonde wig or $1850 in auburn wig!

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17” Early Wood Body Poupée Superior deluxe Fashion Poupée.

Her beautiful head is incised 4.

She has an articulated wood body, tightly covered w/ kid leather from the shoulders to jointed knees. Carved wood legs w/ aged gesso finish. Upper arms jointed at elbows attached to exquisitely formed bisque forearms w/ well-defined hands & fingers. Swivel head & shoulder plate are pale w/ delicately painted features & deep blue enamel eyes, evenly set; fringed w/ delicate lashes and warm sienna brows. Mademoiselle wears a 19th-century enfantine frock of fine windowpane cotton. The matching bonnet is exceptional w/ a wired brim festooned w/ layers of flounces and pleats. A red snood keeps curls tamed & antique red heeled shoes. Perfect for the collector that sews! She is sturdy, graceful, & easy to dress. **Candy container box for display only. $8875

11” JDK Googly - I’ve found it’s best to always have a Googly in the house!

There’s a bit of magic in their eyes and that whimsical smile! Possibly they are related to leprechauns or other magical folks! This little girl is having a grand time on her Easter egg hunt! This charmer is free of damage on the popular jointed chubby toddler body with original finish. She has large side glancing brown eyes, a classic watermelon smile, and raised eyebrows. She will come with her original short ash blonde pageboy wig (not shown) and this fantastic curly mohair wig by DSB! Her costume appears to be completely original down to her adorable navy blue leather shoes and white floret toe bows. Rare to locate in this petite cabinet size! Don’t let her escape!! $5450

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The Complete Guide to Antique, Vintage and Collectible Dolls

May 2022, Volume 25, Number 5

On the Cover

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CROSSING THE LINES The Quest

by Linda Edward

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AUCTION NEWS Izannah Walker doll originally owned by the Mary Merritt Doll Museum.

A rare example of an American doll with painted ringlet curls and a hand-sewn brown and blue dress.

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"CAUSE YOU'VE GOT PERSONALITY" Kammer and Reinhardt Dolls

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WAITING FOR IZANNAH One Doll's Journey

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1) 4.5” Side Glancing Blue Eyes! adorable in pink ruffles,shirred hose & flowered bonnet. $275 2) 5.5” Slender GK Swivel Neck Male - Orig. Clothes, Wig & PW eyes. $750; Swivel Head 5” ‘Mignonette’ - mint wig, PWs, Clo/Mo, fancy couture & 4-strap Bootines. $750 3) 7.5” Dagmar China Lady - orig. body, porc. flat soles, frail orig. silks, UFDC Ribbon. $185

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4) 7” All Orig. Body in vintage Wine Silk Gown - $120; 7” All Orig. in Fancy Pink - $145 5) 7” Good Kestner ‘130’ - Mint mohair, bl. sl. eyes, clo/mo, chubby limbs. $450 6) 9” Flesh Tint A/O 1870’s Scot - Glazed Limbs & Leather Buckled Shoes. $495 7) Pre-1900 Fully Jointed 9” Kestner orig. pate,mint wig, eyelids & many layers! $450; Factory Original 11” Halbig ‘540’ - So unusual in this fully jtd. size, cabinet escort. $495

8) Important German Kitchen with Dining Alcove - clean orig. Delft Paper & Dinette w. lattice work window set this one apart!

The furnishings are all authentic w. no late additions.

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9) Rarely seen Gutter House with Side Porch - 11x14x22” overall This is one of only 5 or 6 styles produced. It features 2-large square rooms & a spacious wrap-around porch & balcony. The paper is original & it is front opening. Brilliant colors, lots of fun! $1295 10) Orig. Lacey 4.5” All Bisques! - L: brn sl.eyes, pursed lips, Bonnet. R: Smiling Face w. big bl. eyes, dimples. Each $225

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11) 5” Yellow Boot Kestner ‘184’ - choice quality, pretty bl. Ptd. eyes, orig. mint wig & very fine clothes! $275 12) 10” 1870’s Cabinet China - really choice quality, great Factory Body w. 4-porc. limbs & garters plus Victorian choker. $145 13) 5.5” Picture Perfect All Bisque- Big blue round sleep eyes w/wax, Carved Teeth, silky Mohair wig, quality Silk Dress, All Mint! $295

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14) 3” Early Doll House Doll - very antique lady in Orig. Green Silk w. Jtd. Arms. rare. $850 15) 3” Regency Snuffbox - w. an Oil Painted lady portrait for your cabinet display! $250 16) Antique English Pop-Up Book - 7” tall, opens to form a carousel of 3-D Cinderella vignettes. Excel. condition. $250 17) 1870’s Doll House Parian Boys - rare ones, jtd.arms, purple luster heeled boots & ptd. gold garters, Orig. Matching Velvet Victorian Suits. $395 each or Pair for $675 18

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23) 17” Heirloom Original ‘French’ Pressed China - light pink tone, exquisite clear glaze, brush marks, heavy black lid lines, coral nostrils & lips, tiny lashes surround the eyes, French Kid Fashion Body w. pink stitches & separate thumb. Period open work layers w. shoes & Matching Cap. Important doll in a rare large size. $3800 24) Slender 14” Factory Original Kinderkoph - molded & brush marked short hair, national clothes include leather Orig.

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18) 13” 1830’s ‘Apollo’ Milliners pretty face & color, woven braid, orig. body $695; 10.5” Waterfall Milliners orig paint, body, & period clothes. $495 19) 6” Original Wooden Lady - ca: 1900 hand carved w. fine original clothes & jtd. arms. Just $295 20) 20” Kestner Wax Child - original Pre-1900 Clothes & wig, sl. eyes.$375

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21) Wonderful 10-piece Punch & Judy Set - great classic Victorian characters, bright original facial color & costumes, plus FAO Schwarz 1880’s Children’s Script to enact. Fantastic. $1100 22) 5.5” Palmer Cox Brownie - 1890 mache w. Orig. paint, jtd. limbs, plus separate tricycle. $295

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25) 17” Oil Painted American Rag “Betty Lou” - near mint w. bright orig.colors & vivid eyes, plus 4-layers of Original Clothes & Shoes! $1100

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26) French Export ‘Child Fashion’ - A round face Steiner type Young Miss, w/Closed Mouth, PW eyes, swivel head, leather body, in Original Wig & Clothes. $1595 27) All Original 17” Jumeau Fashion - from Factory Wig & her high style Chapeau & Leather Boots, she’s dressed for Spring in her french green vintage pin-striped taffeta Bustle Back Gown. Like new! $2895

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28) Very Rare Small Vichy Automaton - att. 12” overall height includes base with Hand Painted decor opens to reveal hidden compartment. A rare mechanical Mignonette nods her head as she strums her mandolin to the music box melody. Orig. Wig & Silk Clothes. A cabinet gem. $1595

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30) ‘Lady Snow’- 24” All Original Barrois Era Poupée - this stunning fashion features both a seldom seen for this maker Swivel Head; as well as a striking height - not to mention her Original beautifully Tailored Ensemble w. Elaborate Chapeau, segmented fabric body w. leather arms, plus Elaborate Parasol & Picnic Basket! Immaculate quality & condition! $4200

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The Quest A Collecting Column by Linda Edward

Crossing the Lines “An antique is anything old with class.”

- John Bartlett (Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations)

As time marches ever forward, each day more dolls cross the line to join the ranks of antique dolls. Ideal’s Toni will be 75 years old in 2024!

ncient, Antique, Early, Vintage, Collectible, Modern – all terms we bandy about in the doll world, but what do we actually mean by all this?

Doll terminology is a language developed by collectors so that we can discuss our hobby and the items we love to collect. Primary amid the plethora of terms we use are those that relate to the age of dolls. But even among those of us who read Antique Doll Collector, there is a wide range of interpretations as to what dolls fall into the category of “Antique.”

The Cambridge Dictionary defines the noun antique as “something made in an earlier period that is collected and considered to have value because it is beautiful, rare, old, or of high quality.” According to the United States Customs Department, an antique is an item that is at least 100 years old. Today’s standards adopted by collectors of automobiles defines an antique vehicle as being 45 years old or more. In the late 1970s when I began my journey as a collector of antique dolls it was generally accepted

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within the hobby that the term antique applied to dolls from 1920 or earlier, making the definition of the use of that term about 55 years.

Over the ensuing decades, many numbers have been thrown out in an attempt to define what constitutes an antique doll. In recent years, the general consensus seems to have settled at 75 years to qualify a doll as antique.

OK, fine, so where does that take us for vintage? Again, in the current mainstream use, the term “Vintage” tends to be used by most to denote dolls made 50 to 74 years ago. (I never imagined when I started collecting that the dolls I played with as a child would be considered vintage!?! LOL) Dolls 49 years old or less are generally still regarded as “Modern” in comparison to the two and a half centuries of dolls that preceded them which are being collected today.

Using these general guidelines, with every day that passes new dolls move along in their respective categories, crossing lines from one term to another. The

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The Quest (continued from page 10) Left: In the 1920s to 1940s the collectors of antique dolls focused on what are now referred to as “Early” dolls, which in today’s parlance generally denotes dolls from 1840s or before. At that time many of the bisque headed dolls coveted by today’s collectors were thought to be too modern to be of special interest.

Right: Dolls such as Vogue Doll Company’s Toddles and their painted-eye Ginny are another example of dolls which to many long-time collectors feel Vintage (or even Modern!) but are in fact on the verge of being antique.

vintage doll of today is the antique doll of tomorrow, as the modern doll of today is the vintage doll of the future.

I think most of us who collect antique dolls are in part moved to do so because of the history they represent, and the stories they tell. As researchers, we delve into these stories looking for clues to build a fuller picture of the time in which the doll was created. This same desire or need to know about our dolls points to a good case for including the study of vintage dolls in our collecting life. Nothing vanishes more quickly or is more difficult to recapture than first-hand, primary source information. The generations that designed, made, and played with the dolls which stand on the brink of joining the ranks of antique dolls will all too soon be gone, making it more important than ever to record their stories now.

The date ranges given here are the opinion of this collector based on forty-five years of hunting for dolls and talking dolls with other collectors. Undoubtedly there will be those who look at this question differently. Like all forms of language, the terms we use to define the age of our dolls are not static but will continue to change in the decades and centuries to come. In the final analysis, it is the artifacts themselves, the record of the history they keep alive and the enjoyment of the art they bring to our lives that matter far more to the hearts of those of us who were born to collect than which side of an often arbitrary and ever-changing dateline they may fall onto.

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As more and more vintage dolls edge up to the line to cross into the realm of antique, we have an opportunity to record primary source information for the benefit and enlightenment of the collectors who will follow in the hobby that has added so much to our lives and to the history of humanity.

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20” 11 99 DEP Heinrich Handwerck, blue sl eyes, on early stiff wrist body $795.

25“ Kestner 171 on beautiful lady body, stamped Germany, original mohair wig in original set, blue sleep eyes, antique shoes, and antique clothes, repaired left thumb. $695.

15” Kestner 167, brown sleep eyes, orig mohair wig & pate, body stamped Germany $295.

8.25” K star R 101 Peter 21, 5 piece body, orig mohair wig $775.

20 “ Bru Jun 7 on Chevrot body with label on chest and stamped body, replaced arms, blue paperweight eyes, pierced ears, possible original undergarments. $16,995.

17“ Madame Alexander Elise in blue ball gown, 1964 with 18 tiers of gathered lace, In original box. $450.

19” CM French Belton type marked 183 (faint), on French stiff wrist body, upper left thigh remade?, brown PW eyes, HH wig, pierced ears $1295.

25” K star R S & H 62, blue sleep eyes, orig HH wig, pierced ears, beautiful body $595.

12” Possible Defussiaux Belgian – sold to make money for war orphans, right hand glued, Bisque head with blue eyes, mohair wig, and original clothes $390.

21.5” CM French 1880’s R2D, brown PW eyes, stiff wrist body, piece chipped upper left leg, eye chip left eye, mohair wig $995.

24.5” Kestner 168 w/ square cut teeth, blue sl eyes, antique dress, small flake rt eye $295.

24” Walkure 3 ½ Germany, br sl eyes, orig mohair wig, nice BJ body $375.

16.5” K star R 126 toddler, blue sl eyes, HH wig, sweet expression $315.

15” Kathe Kruse Slim hip #1 Boy 1930’s, brown painted eyes & facial features, some paint wear, both thumbs as is $675.

29” Simon & Halbig 939, blue sl eyes, orig HH wig, repainted body, hairline by right ear $725.

9.5” English Liberty of London tagged on skirt – Mary II of William & Mary, missing cape $175.

21” K star R 192 9, br sl eyes, pierced ears, original HH wig, sweet face $545.

14.5” Effanbee DyDee Baby, beautiful face & body, legs stringing loose, caracul wig $185.

15” Effanbee DyDee Baby w/ caracul wig, rubber body $145.

7.5” Cathy Hansen Bru with blue eyes and mohair wig. Leather body with bisque hands and lower legs, pierced ears. $325. 5.5” Cathy Hansen Bru all bisque with blue eyes, and mohair wig. $195.

Uneeda Dollikin Mint in Box w/ tag, vested shirt & pants set w/ cream shoes $250.

12.5” German K star R Stockinette Man w/ monocle, missing one eyebrow $200.

19” Kestner 167 blue stationary eyes, human hair wig, dress lace overlay as is. $265.

Kestner all bisque pair, open/closed mouth with teeth, blue painted eyes - 5.5“ Boy 160/4 with blonde molded hair, right thumb as is. 5“ Girl 166/3 with mohair wig, hairline behind left ear. Pair $165.

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Auction News There is good news on the doll-buying front, as we emerge from lock-down.

Auction houses in both Europe and the America report positive results and plans for their spring antique doll sales, in both antique and vintage dolls.

For example, at Ladenburger Spielzeugauktion, our own cover girl (March 2022 ADC), a Bru bébé in blue was a winner, fetching €28,000 ($32,260) at the Spring Auction on April 1-2, 2022.

Alderfer Auction Recent Highlights from their auction on April 5th and 6th, excellent results for the two babies, Heubach and Chase, seen here.

Alderfer Auction Lot 4276-14” Black 7659 Germany (HEUBACH Sunburst) $8400

Alderfer Auction Lot 4087-9” Chase Doll $12,000

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Ladenburger Spielzeugauktion GMBH She has bisque porcelain socket head, very fine porcelain, large almond-shaped paperweight eyes, slight shading on the eyelids, closed mouth, pierced ears, marked BRU JN 16. 97cm, jointed body, hand-carved arms and legs made of linden wood, re-sewn light blue children’s dress, real hair wig.

At the same event, rare Steiff toy animals were a hit, including a rare orangutan baby, and a monkey, 29 cm, 1930-1936, rust-red mohair, jointed, felt face with eyes that can move left and right as well as rolling; extremely expressive, Koskinen collection with a result of €2000 ($2160).

Theriault’s Lot-8 Mod Barbie Dolls and Ken in Braniff costumes, Montgomery Ward Exclusives.

Final: $6750; Presale Est: $1500/2000

Theriault’s Barbie is alive and well achieving a nice result at their recent auction. Barbie and Ken in Emilio Pucci for Braniff expected a price of $1,500, realized price was $6,500.

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Galerie de Chartres’ next auction features interesting automata, shown here. Please note that the dates of the auction have been moved up one day to May 20-21, 2022.

Back in the USA, Withington Auctions event on June 15 and 16th promises some fine American dolls.

(See their advertisement for location and details.)

Withington’s past highlights include Maggie Bessie and Martha Wellington, seen below.

Galerie de Chartres Vichy - Elegant with a fan, seated on a tree trunk.

Musical automata with Gauthier head and bisque hands. 40 cm. $2160-2700 (€2000 / €2500)

Withington Auctions Left: 116-18” Cloth Maggie-Bessie from Salem NC, painted oil cloth features, muslin cloth body with oil painted limbs. This fine example was in the collection of Shirley Temple, sold by Theriaults.

Right: 117-23” Martha Wellington cloth doll from Brookline Massachusetts, circa 1880’s, oil cloth painted features, stuffed stockinette cloth body, antique clothing & white christening gown.

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Auction Calendar C and T Auctions

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Waiting for Izannah One Doll’s Journey Laurie W. McGill ver the years, much has been written about nineteenthcentury American doll maker Izannah Walker and her pressed cloth dolls. Born in 1817, Izannah grew up in Massachusetts and by 1865, she was listed in the Rhode Island State Census as a “Doll Maker.” She applied for, and secured, a patent for her doll design in 1873, making her the first woman in the United States to obtain a patent for the design of a doll. Her dolls—each different, each a work of art—have long been admired by doll collectors.

Yet, this is the story of one special Izannah Walker doll—an imposing 19-inch, brown-eyed girl with two ringlet curls in front of each ear and five ringlets painted around the nape of her neck. Clad in a hand-sewn blue and brown dress with black painted shoes, this is her story… …and mine.

The Mary Merritt Doll Museum opened on May 27, 1963 in Douglassville, Pennsylvania. Pictured is Mary Merritt among her dolls. (Photograph from the Touring Mary Merritt’s Doll Museum booklet, 1963. Dan Weidner, photographer)

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In the beginning With no written documentation as to when the doll was made, current-day doll maker/craftsperson Paula Walton of A Sweet Remembrance offered a probable date to be in the 1855-to-prior-to-1861 group (with an educated guess that the doll is closer to the latter end of this time period). She based her conclusion on the doll’s head/body/ nose shape, arm length, and paint style. Paula, who has done extensive research on the Izannah Walker dolls, has broken the pre-patent dolls into groups by date: 1845-before-to-1855, 1855-to-1861, and 1861-to patent date 1873. This doll likely falls in the second category.

Nothing is known of the doll’s early years. Who was the child who loved her? What became of the doll when the child grew up? One thing is certain—the doll was cherished to have survived this long.

What is known is that the doll was in the collection of twentieth century collector Mary Merritt, and she was put on display when the Mary Merritt Doll Museum opened in Douglassville, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1963.

Mary had collected dolls for 40 years before she opened her museum, but there is no record of when—nor from whom—Mary acquired her Izannah.

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A 19-inch brown-eyed Izannah Walker doll, circa 1855-1861, wears a blue and brown hand-sewn dress with black painted shoes.

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The doll was placed in the ragdoll category in a display case in the museum where she was on continual exhibit for the 42 years the museum was open.

She was one of the dolls featured on a set of colored postcards offered in the museum’s gift shop. The Izannah was seated in a small chair for the photograph surrounded by a printed Art Fabric cloth doll, a cut-and-sew Brownie, and a faceless Pennsylvania Dutch cloth doll.

The Izannah Walker doll was also selected to appear in the Touring Mary Merritt’s Doll Museum booklet (copyright 1963), sold in the gift shop. “Ragdolls are as old as the hills,” wrote Ann Kilborn Cole on the “Rag Dolls” page in the booklet. “In 1855 a woman named Izannah Walker of Central Falls, Rhode Island made rag dolls of exceptional quality and received a patent on them in 1873. The features were made in relief and painted. It was an Izannah Walker doll that inspired the dolls of Mrs. Martha Chase of Pawtucket, Rhode Island about 1891.”

In 1971, another museum book—Dolls in Color—was published (Wallace-Homestead Book Co., Iowa). With text by Mary’s stepdaughter, Marjorie Merritt Darrah (curator of the museum), the Izannah was posed with an Arnold Print Works tabby cat, a Chase stockinette doll, a cloth Welsh rag doll, a Beecher Baby, and a large English rag doll. “Nineteen-inch Izannah Walker doll, patented in 1873 in Rhode Island,” the text read. “Made of cloth with painted head, arms, and legs.

Fingers separated. Note curls in front of the ears. These are among the hard-to-find cloth dolls.”

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Also sold in the museum’s gift shop was a booklet, Touring Mary Merritt’s Doll Museum, which featured Mary’s Izannah Walker doll on the Rag Dolls page. (Photographed and published by Dan Weidner, 1963)

A larger book picturing some of the museum’s dolls was published in 1971. Dolls in Color (Wallace-Homestead Book Co., Iowa) displayed the Izannah Walker doll with four other cloth dolls and an Arnold Print Works tabby cat.

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The Advertisement I was a schoolgirl in the 1960s, too old to play with dolls in the opinion of my peers.

Not ready to put my dolls away, though, I proclaimed myself to be a doll collector.

Thus began a lifelong passion for dolls and their history.

I was blessed with a mother who nurtured my interest in dolls, an interest that had quietly slipped from play to academia. She subscribed to Lightner’s Hobbies: A Magazine for Collectors, Kimport’s Doll Talk and Elizabeth Andrews Fisher’s Toy Trader for me. I looked forward to receiving these publications each month, rushing through my homework so I could read the articles and pour longingly over the advertisements.

One advertisement in Toy Trader stood out to me—the Mary Merritt Doll Museum’s advertisement for its postcard set. One day my mother sent off the $1.60 required to purchase the sixteen cards.

I went to the mailbox every afternoon, hoping the cards were waiting for me.

When they finally arrived, three postcards immediately became my favorites—one pictured a grouping of bisque Kewpie dolls; another pictured a trio of pedlar dolls with their baskets of tiny wares; and the third featured four cloth dolls, one of which was Mary’s Izannah Walker doll.

After the museum opened in 1963, Mary Merritt advertised a set of 16 colored Doll Postals for $1.60. (Toy Trader, December 1963) The postcard set featured dolls from the museum’s collection. Pictured are two cards featuring an array of Kewpies and a trio of pedlars. (Color-Art Studio, Reading PA, 1963)

1,500 Miles and 30 Years Mary Merritt’s extensive doll collection was a strong influence on my growing taste in antique dolls.

By 1972, I had entered the workforce.

One of the first dolls I purchased for my fledgling collection of antique dolls was a pair of German bisque Kewpie Huggers, primarily because of the appeal that the Kewpies in Mary’s collection held for me.

In 1974, I joined the United Federation of Doll Clubs as an Associate Member in a local club, and in 1984, I attended my first UFDC doll convention. Six years later, when the convention was held in Washington, D.C., I seized the opportunity to travel 160 miles north to Pennsylvania so that I could visit the Mary Merritt Doll Museum.

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The Mary Merritt Doll Museum Auction Part 1 was held on September 30 and October 1, 2006. (Noel Barrett Antiques & Auctions LTD in Association with Andy Ourant)

Unavoidable circumstances caused my arrival at the museum to be 30 minutes before it was to close. I begged the woman at the admissions desk to allow me to make a quick sweep through the museum because, I pleaded, “I’ve come 1,500 miles and 30 years to see the Mary Merritt Doll Museum.” She graciously granted me access, and I ran from case to case taking photographs of the dolls and their signage as best I could, and when I came to the case that bore Mary’s Izannah Walker doll, I paused.

I still remember the thrill of being face to face with the dolls I had come to know from the 16-color postcard set from childhood.

The Mary Merritt Doll Museum Auction 2006-2007 During the summer of 2005, the United Federation of Doll Clubs hosted its annual convention in Philadelphia.

By that time, the Merritt family had decided to close the museum and send Mary’s doll collection to auction.

Auctioneer Noel Barrett hosted a reception at the museum for the conventioneers. Boarding the tour bus at the hotel, camera in hand, I knew I would not have to rush through the museum this time, and I was beside myself with excitement.

Mary’s Izannah Walker doll was Lot 271 in the Noel Barrett auction catalog.

Little had changed since I had swept through the museum in 1990. The Izannah was still in the rag dolls case with the Brownie, the Art Fabric cloth doll, and the faceless Pennsylvania Dutch cloth doll. The Kewpies still romped on their glass shelf, and the pedlars continued selling their small wares. We learned that the museum’s contents would be sold in two separate auctions, both presented by Noel Barrett and assisted by Becky and Andy Ourant. The first auction would be held in the fall of 2006, and the second would take place in the spring of 2007.

Mary’s Izannah Walker doll was Lot 271 in the first auction.

It is believed that the doll was in Liv Greta Brem’s private doll museum in Oslo, Norway until 2017.

A Rendezvous on a Wednesday Mary Merritt’s Izannah came to auction again in April 2017. This time she was sold by Theriault’s in a Wednesday evening uncatalogued Rendezvous auction as Lot 7. “…the most sought-after model of the rare American doll with beautifully painted ringlet curls,” the description read in part. She was not promoted as being from the Merritt museum. The doll had been out of public ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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Mary Merritt’s Izannah was auctioned, again, on April 5, 2017 as Lot 7 in Theriault’s Wednesday evening uncatalogued Rendezvous Auction. (Photograph Courtesy Theriault’s)

The winning bidder at the Rendezvous Auction shared her doll (back row, center) in the October 2017 Jenny Lind Doll Club’s special exhibit, “Izannah Walker Iconic American Doll Maker 1817-2017,” organized by Paula Walton with the Jenny Lind Doll Club. (Collection of Suzanne Fox. Photograph courtesy Dennis Fox.)

view for eleven years, and the wrist tag indicating she was from the Merritt museum was no longer with her. The small cloth bag she carried on her right arm while in the Merritt museum was missing, too.

The successful bidder learned of the doll’s provenance later, and while in this private collector’s possession, the doll was part of the October 2017 Jenny Lind Doll Show and Sale’s special exhibit of Walker dolls. Paula Walton organized the exhibit in honor of Izannah Walker’s 200th birthday and the Jenny Lind Doll Club’s 30th Annual Doll Show and Sale. Called Cordelia by her new owner, the Merritt doll was one of 25 Izannah Walker dolls loaned to the “Izannah Walker Iconic American Doll Maker 18172017” exhibit.

A Tap on the Shoulder Ever since I had seen the Izannah Walker doll on the Mary Merritt Doll Museum’s postcard, I dreamed of someday owning one like her. In my heart, I knew that dream might never come true. With soaring prices, the dolls—when they did come up for sale—were out of reach.

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focus is on early papier-mâchés and woodens, with a deep interest in the Walker dolls.

Offered for sale were two Izannah Walkers, and one of them was Mary Merritt’s doll. Still wearing her hand-sewn brown and blue dress, she looked no different than when she had posed for the postcard 60 years before.

I immediately wrote to the seller inquiring about the doll’s price, and as I read the seller’s reply, I felt Mary tapping me on the shoulder…

“This is your chance. It is meant to be.”

Without hesitation, I heeded that tap.

A Dream Realized Mary Merritt’s Izannah Walker doll is now reunited with an English pedlar and a German bisque Kewpie from the Mary Merritt Doll Museum, both of which were acquired from the second Noel Barrett auction in 2007.

I am overjoyed that this one doll’s journey eventually led her to my care.

Long ago I read that if you love something strong enough and long enough, one day it will come to you.

I believe this to be true.

(With sincere appreciation to Susie and Denny Fox, Edyth O’Neill, and Paula Walton)

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Left: The doll joined several other Izannah Walker dolls from the special exhibit for a “Morning After Party” in Paula Walton’s Izannah doll house. The Mary Merritt Izannah is seated second from left, back row. (Photograph courtesy Dennis Fox) Below left: In February 2022, Mary Merritt’s Izannah was offered for sale on Facebook on a private group’s page.

One of two dolls offered, she is seated on the left.

(Photograph courtesy Suzanne Fox) Below: Mary Merritt’s Izannah Walker doll is posed beside an English pedlar and a German bisque Kewpie. All three were part of the Mary Merritt Doll Museum (1963-2005). (Laurie McGill Collection)

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“Cause You’ve Got Personality” Dolls with Character …The Creations of Kammer and Reinhardt by Susan Foreman

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loyd Price’s 1959 R&B hit song “Personality” certainly sums up the dolls of Kammer & Reinhardt…. “Cause you’ve got personality, smile with personality, charm with personality”.

As doll collectors, certain types of dolls seem to call out to each of us in a different way. I appreciate all types of dolls, but invariably seem to be drawn to the character dolls by Kammer & Reinhardt. Although Kammer & Reinhardt also made the more traditional “dolly faced” dolls (in fact, this was the primary type they made from 1886 to 1909), it is the character face that calls to me.

Over the years auction prices have confirmed just how special the works of Kammer & Reinhardt are. For example, January 2012 saw a Kammer & Reinhardt 104 sell for $212,800 at a Theriault’s auction. The Model 104, according to Theriault’s, was sculpted by the renowned Berlin artist Arthur Lewin-Funcke (1866-1937), whose own daughter served as the model. The doll was discovered in an old trunk in the home of a noble Spanish family, who had left their ancestral estate in the early 1900s to emigrate to a mountain village in Peru.

Being hidden away for nearly a century accounted for its costume being still as vibrant as when the doll was first released in about 1910. This sale price was truly a testament to the importance of dolls being appreciated as not only a commercial item but also a lasting work of art. Granted, this doll is extremely rare (only two or three other examples are known to exist), however, all the Kammer & Reinhardt dolls are made with the same attention to detail. The modeling of the character expressions is exceptional.

K*R 104 (Theriault’s photo)

K*R 108 (left) K*R 105 (right) (Bonhams photo)

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the name Kammer & Reinhardt on January 5, 1886, in Then, on September 24, 2014, at Bonhams London Waltershausen, Germany. The company prospered from auction a K*R 108 sold for just shy of $400,000. the beginning.

According to the auction company, this may have been Ernst Kammer’s numerous inventions are an an experimental mold as no other example was known. important part of doll history and include bisque heads Other Kammer & Reinhardt dolls brought exceptionally with teeth, eyelashes of genuine hair, and improvements high prices at the Bonhams auction as well including a in body construction. Kammer was a man of great talent mold 105 selling at $278,000 and a mold 106 at $188.000. and great integrity. Sadly, he died in 1901. The business Like the 104 model noted above, both the 105 and acumen of Franz Reinhardt, however, enabled the 106 were designed by Lewin-Funcke. One of his four company to continue to prosper following Kammer’s daughters served as the model for the 105 while his untimely death. nephew Heinz Burkowitz was the model for the 106.

In 1902 Kammer & Reinhardt acquired the Heinrich My first Kammer & Handwerck firm. Although Heinrich’s director, Gottlieb Reinhardt was a model Nussle, became a partner of Kammer & Reinhardt, the 115A, a gift from my Handwerck division remained a separate entity. The year husband. The year 1902 also marks the beginning of the collaboration with was 1979. I had just the porcelain factory Simon & Halbig of Grafenhain. The started collecting and familiar 100 numbering system began in 1902 as well. The had discovered a small Handwerck division made the parts for the composition shop near our home bodies used by Kammer & Reinhardt. While Simon & that had some antique Halbig, known for their excellent quality, made the bisque dolls for sale. This was character heads in the 100 mold number series. Kammer where Jay discovered & Reinhardt then assembled the bodies and heads in their “Jimmy”. The original own factory. Eighteen years later Kammer & Reinhardt owner of the doll had purchased the Simon & Halbig porcelain factory. named him Jimmy.

The first “character doll” (a phrase coined by However, I was soon to 115A “Phillip”….aka “Jimmy” Reinhardt) made by the firm was inspired by the learn that Kammer & 1908 exhibition of art dolls at Munich. This exhibition Reinhardt called the doll Phillip although he will always represented a milestone in the history of the German be Jimmy to me. Coleman’s Collector’s Encyclopedia Doll Industry. The exhibition was held at the Hermann of Dolls had only recently been published and it was Tietz store and invited both known and unknown artists to Volume One that I turned for more information on to present dolls that were “as realistic as possible”.

Kammer & Reinhardt.

According to the Ciesliks, this doll exhibition would have Then in 1985, the English edition of German Doll been of no importance to the doll industry if Kammer & Encyclopedia by Jurgen & Marianne Cieslik came out, Reinhardt had not responded to the idea of this new type and thus more information about the endearing character of realistic doll. dolls of Kammer & Reinhardt became available. And finally in 2008, Mary Krombholz’s outstanding book entitled Identifying German Character Dolls was published.

These three books are the basis for the following brief history of this remarkable dollmaking firm.

Sculptor Ernst Kammer and businessman Franz Reinhardt joined forces in 1885, registering 15" K*R 100 K*R on baby body, 101 Peter and Marie, 20" tall 101 Marie, rare complexion, 15" tall ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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Franz Reinhardt was immediately attracted to the concept of a doll depicting an actual child in various moods and had a bronze shoulder head bust of a six weeks old baby sculpted by Professor Lewin-Funcke, the same Berlin artist that would later sculpt other mold numbers including the 104, 105, and 106 mentioned at the beginning of this article. The identity of the sculptor was unknown until 1987 when the Cisliks discovered an April 24, 1928 newspaper with a story about Professor Lewin-Funcke which noted that he sculpted this first character baby but “was afraid he would tarnish his reputation as a famous sculptor and art teacher in Berlin if it became known that he modeled doll heads”.

This first character baby would become known as mold #100. A booklet was published in 1911 commemorating the 25th anniversary of the firm and further describes the first appearance of the K*R character dolls as follows. “In addition to the baby head, our Berlin artist sculpted some other models since he found great interest in this new rave. The customers had a difficult choice with these new articles and even during our exhibition at Berlin in 1909 it was possible to sell only a few samples of our babies, there was only one friend who was convinced enough to order one dozen.

When samples of this baby head and of the models “Peter” and “Marie” (mold #101), which were designed by the same Berlin artist, were distributed worldwide the doll factory received numerous orders.”

1909 was an incredibly prolific year for Kammer & Reinhardt character dolls and included the introduction of molds 107 (Karl…or to be more accurate Carl), l09 (Elise), and 112. Mold 102 “Walter” was the molded head

K*R 114 Hans and Gretchen (both 18" tall)

version of the wigged mold 107. Sculptor Lewin-Funcke actually created the original shoulder head bust that would eventually become molds 102 and 107 in 1898.

Soon thereafter new models designed by sculptor Karl Krauser, based on the grandchild of Franz Reinhardt, were introduced to the market under the names “Hans” and Gretchen” (mold 114). Franz Reinhardt wrote in his notebook: “The introduction of character dolls would have been much easier if it had been possible to produce them with sleeping eyes, without disadvantages to the expression of the face…

In any case, as far as we are concerned, we are proud to have caused the doll industry to flourish again with our character doll”. Hans and Gretchen were introduced at the 1910 Easter Fair at Leipzig and immediately became best sellers.

Left to right: K*R 107 (12") , K*R 109 (15"), and K*R 112 (17")

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A 16” K*R 115 with molded hair and his smaller brother a 12” K*R 115A with mohair wig.

Mold 115 (molded hair) and 115A (wigged) was another popular 1911 model and was based on a sculpture by the renowned Flemish sculptor Francois Duquesnoy (1597-1643). An interesting aside concerning Francois is that his father, Jerome Duquesnoy the Elder, was the sculptor of the famous Manneken Pis fountain in Brussels (1619).

Other molds were also introduced in 1911 including 116 and the everpopular “Mein Liebling” (a name first registered by the firm in 1902) mold 117. The 117 featured sleep eyes, as opposed to the painted eyes of the earlier character dolls, and thus was somewhat of a compromise between the character and the more traditional doll. The 117 ranged in size from a mere 7-1⁄2" tall to over 30" and was a huge success for the firm.

Left photo is a 22" 116A, Three photos below and right are a 12" 117A with her original “Mein Liebling” tag.

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Max and Moritz, K*R 123 and 124 (16" tall). Left photo shows their unique molded shoes

1913 marked the introduction of two of my favorite rascals “Max” (mold 123) and “Moritz” (mold 124). These dolls, based on the 1865 book by Wilhelm Busch, also had unique composition bodies with molded shoes…

Moritz’s painted brown and Max’s black. These dolls perfectly depict these two naughty little boys that terrorized their town and came to a rather violent end. As you look at the mischievous expressions of these two dolls you can almost envision them planning their next prank.

Mold numbers 119, 121, and 122 were also introduced in the 1912-1913 period while mold numbers 126, 127, 128, and the googly-eyed 131 appeared in 1914.

ABOVE: Left to right: K*R 119 baby, a 12" K*R 121, and a 9" K*R 122 LEFT: Left to right: a 22" K*R 126, a 28" K*R 127, and a 10-1⁄2" K*R 131

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The firm also made character dolls with celluloid heads. They used the same plaster molds used for the bisque heads but changed the numbering system. For example, the bisque 101 became 701 when made of celluloid. The celluloid heads were made by Rheinische Gummi und Celluloidwarenfabrik (turtlemark) and then painted and coated with a specially developed nonyellowing matt varnish at the Kammer & Reinhardt factory.

Even during the years of World War I Kammer & Reinhardt continued to thrive. In 1916 Reinhardt sold his shares to Bing Works which led to even greater exports. During the 1920s a line of cloth dolls representing various personalities was introduced. However, the depression of the 1930s took its toll and brought about the decline of this once flourishing business. And on March 28, 1933, Franz Reinhardt (1858-1933) died. While his death in 1933 truly marked the end of an era, the creations that bear his name live on.

Celluloid K*R 701, 14" tall

Below are some additional examples of the smallest to the largest characters made by the firm:

Left and above photo features five dolls all 7" to 7-1⁄2" tall. From left to right K*R 101 Marie, K*R 117, K*R 101 Marie, K*R 109, and K*R 101 Peter. While the below photo is of a 30" tall K*R 117A Mein Liebling.

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Doll Company

By Jane Foster

ou will not find a lot of information about the Paris Doll Company in reference books, but, for a brief time, the firm was the source of some interesting dolls that, today, are quite collectible.

Despite its name, the company was based in New York. It existed for about a decade, during the 1940s and 1950s, and gave us some very nice composition and hard plastic dolls. Some of their dolls had a vinyl head with a hard plastic body, but then, in the late 1950s, they started producing slender vinyl fashion dolls.

These dolls are difficult to identify. Some are marked, but many are not. A doll found in totally original condition would have a paper wrist hangtag. Also, a doll made by the Paris Doll Company would have the name written on the side of its box. This is true of their ballerina doll, for example: In 1956 the Paris company produced a Nadia walking ballerina doll. This doll has a hard plastic, slim, body and is eighteen inches tall. If found with her original box, the side flap will read:The original walking ballerina doll with jointed knee and ankle, Pat. Pend, by Paris Doll Corp, New York.

The range of dolls that came from this relatively unfamiliar little company included various walking dolls, brides and bridesmaids, and a majorette. They were the company’s “Rita” dolls. Knowledgeable collectors are able to recognize the Paris Doll Company “Rita” face.

These dolls’ faces remind one of the Halco dolls made by the J.A. Halpern Company, some of which were made in the 1940s and 1950s just as the Rita dolls were. Like the Halco dolls, the Rita dolls have sweet smiles and subtle eyeshadow. The Paris Company Rita doll was always a walker. She is shown on older advertising ephemera walking alongside a little girl. Most of these dolls were of considerable height, and some could be considered in the companion doll category.

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“Rita” with her wrist tag is in near mint condition dressed in her pretty blue taffeta dress, still retaining her original hair net.

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Shown here is a picture of a 29 inch walking Rita doll as advertised in “Playthings” magazine, March 1953.

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CLOCKWISE from TOP LEFT: This is an early model of “Rita” by the Paris Doll Company with composition head and limbs and cloth body. She is 29 inches tall; her pretty pinafore is designed with storybook characters. (Courtesy of Frasher’s Auctions) One of the more often-seen outfits is seen on this all-original hard plastic 28 inch “Rita.”

(Courtesy of Frasher’s Auctions) This 28 inch “Rita” is wearing a pink silk dress; outfit is accessorized with a fashionable straw hat. (Courtesy of Frasher’s Auctions) Dressed in her original long gown is this beautiful vintage example from the Paris Doll Company. (Courtesy of Cathy Adams)

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probably sold in the 1950’s; she was produced as a One very popular outfit for the Rita walking doll was brunette and a blonde. This company also made an a cotton plaid dress with white sheer pinafore trimmed advertising doll. In 1952 they came out with a “Roxanne with red satin ribbon, white socks, and Mary-jane shoes.

Beat the Clock” doll which was 16-18 inches tall and She had many different dresses, in cotton, and some made of hard plastic. “Beat the Clock” was a game show in taffeta. Often she wore a pinafore over her dress; that aired in the fifties and Roxanne was the assistant to pinafores were very popular with little girl dresses in this the show’s host. A “Roxanne Beat the Clock” doll was era also. also produced by Valentine Doll Company and Mona In the 1950s Paris Doll Company also made a Carol Lisa Exclusive Company. walking doll. Carol came as a hard plastic black or white doll. Several of the Paris Company dolls were dressed like children; they were also attired as fashionable young ladies. There were some costumed in long, elegant gowns. Some were “mama dolls” with their swinging legs and crier boxes. There were two different tags that were used on Paris Company dolls. The most commonly used tag had the words “Rita Walking Doll” and showed a little girl with her doll walking beside her; “Rita” was printed alone on the other tag. This less-seen tag was smaller and had a curvilinear shape with the Eiffel Tower pictured in the background. “Rita” was a competitor of the 1950s Ideal’s “Saucy Walker.” “Peggy” is another walker doll made by the Paris Doll Company. Peggy is a twenty-eight-inch tall all composition doll with a walker mechanism and a metal crier on her chest. She was advertised as a walking and crying doll in the 1940s. Peggy was also A “Playthings” magazine advertisement shows the sweet “Peggy” doll. (Courtesy of Judith Izen) made in hard plastic, ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR

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This doll business was advertised as the Paris Doll Corporation in the March 1956 issue of “Playthings” magazine.

(Courtesy of Donna W. Brown)

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Although we know little about the origin of this company, we do have some interesting information about its termination.

In 1957 Horsman Doll Company purchased the Paris Doll Co. Lovely baby dolls had continued to be Horsman’s predominant product in the early 1950s, but they wanted to advance into the growing fashion doll genre with their successful Cindy line. The Paris Doll Co. was a small competitor that was already making slender-type fashion dolls, so Horsman felt this would be a profitable business venture, and so it proved to be.

At this time Irene Szor was the doll designer for the Paris Doll Company. She was born in Poland, a survivor of the Holocaust, and had attended a design art school, learning basic drawing, painting and sculpting graphics,

and textile and stage design. After World War II she had emigrated from Poland to Brazil, and then, in 1947, she came to the United States and New York City. She had to learn English; then she enrolled in Art Students League, taking classes there Irene Szor (1924-2015) was the for less than a year. accomplished doll designer for Paris Doll Company and later for Horsman Eugenia Dolls Doll Company. advertised in the (Courtesy of Daniel Szor) New York Times for someone to design outfits for dolls. Upon answering this ad, Szor got a job with Eugenia Doll Company and worked for them for several years until the company went bankrupt. By this time she had established prominence as a doll clothing designer and easily acquired a position with Sayco Doll Company, and designed outfits for Sayco Dolls for seven years.

The Paris Doll Company had been started around this time making so-called couturier dolls wearing Frenchinspired high fashions. Paris Doll Company sought Szor as their costume designer. She promptly agreed and worked there until the company was taken over

by Horsman.

Irene Szor excelled at the job of designing dolls. Since childhood she had had an interest in designing. Indeed, during one period in her adult life, she spent a month every year in Europe where she studied the latest in children’s fashion.

Horsman was fortunate. With the acquisition of the Paris Doll Company, Irene Szor agreed to take the position of doll designer for Horsman Doll Company.

This talented lady successfully designed Horsman’s dolls for three decades.

REFERENCES“Horsman Dolls-The Vinyl Era 1950 to Present,” by Don Jensen, Collector Books, Paducah, Kentucky, 2007 “Peggy—A Walking Doll by the Paris Doll Company,” by Ursula R. Mertz, Doll Reader magazine, Hobby House Press, Inc., April 1988 Doll Reference (online)

The young, fashionable Irene Szor is pictured here.

(Courtesy of Daniel Szor)

(Pictures not designated otherwise are from the author’s collection and photographed by Gerald Foster).

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By Eliza de Sola Mendes

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Deborah Neff’s collection was recently shown as part of BLACK DOLLS. An exhibition at The New York Historical Society

xquisite, hand-crafted dolls that together, tell a remarkable story of America through each stitch made by loving hands.

Folk art, historical artifacts, and favorite toys are all terms that describe aspects of these one-of-a-kind, rare black dolls. They are the treasures that Deborah Neff has been collecting for more than 25 years. Her dolls and early photos of children with their dolls from her collection have been exhibited at: The Mingei International Museum in San Diego, California 2015, The Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa in 2017, La Maison Rouge in Paris in 2018, and recently at The New-York Historical Society in the exhibition, BLACK DOLLS. Curator Margi Hofer says of these dolls they are: “remarkable survivals” of history. “Seen in such large quantities in the exhibition, one can assume there are many more out there but this is not the case.” Hofer believes these dolls survived in part because of the “emotional bonds” between the recipients of the dolls and their makers, and she sees the dolls as “repositories of memories.”

Neff’s collection focuses on American handmade cloth black dolls from c.1850-c.1940.

She started collecting in the 1990s when she found a single doll while searching for early American quilts at an antique fair in Atlanta. Deborah says of the doll: ”It was a male doll, made of various leather scraps, with shoe button eyes, facial features formed with bent nails, and a wooden neck that may have been the wide flange of a spool…I knew I could not leave the fair without him.”

Each doll that Neff has collected is unique in its way. The shapes, designs, and use of materials reflect creativity and locale. They were mainly crafted from the bits and pieces of what could be found in a sewing box. Though the provenance of the dolls has been lost in many cases, the materials used can help date the dolls. Most were made by women and some by children. The result, is history, woven with beads, fabrics, glass, and other materials, evoking culture and artistic style.

Neff’s collection presents the African American decorative arts heritage, embodied in intimate family objects, with many of the dolls carefully handed down through generations. Dolls made of delicate materials became precious keepsakes. Brought together in Neff’s collection, they will have an enduring legacy.

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Male Doll, Maker unknown, late 19th century. Leather, wood, mixed fabrics 17”x 5.25” x 2.75”

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Deborah’s collecting has an interesting history. Asked about how many dolls she has in her collection Neff answered: “Far fewer than Margaret Woodbury Strong collected, but, still, an embarrassing number. That’s all I’ll say.” Was she a doll collector before seeing the first black doll at that antique show? She says no, but as to collecting other antique dolls today, she said: “I have a number of handmade white dolls that I quite like. I acquired most of them early on. My focus back then was not on Black dolls per se but on expressive

dolls that were ingeniously made. As time passed by I came to realize that my criteria were more often met in Black dolls than white. That is how my focus on Black dolls began.”

Did she collect dolls as a young girl? She said: “I did not. I didn’t play much with dolls either, not even my sisters’ Barbie dolls. I remember only two dolls, manufactured baby dolls, which I quickly outgrew. I also still have a minimal but highly stylized cloth doll my grandmother made.”

Deborah Neff’s favorite doll: “I get asked this question all the time… at the risk of shortchanging the others, the one I am especially drawn to is a very early (circa 1850-70) doll… perhaps because she is relatively small, at just under 12 inches tall, and has lost her wig and bonnet (which, by the way allows you to see the tip of a metal rod that runs through her head and torso and keeps her upright). To me, she is a wonder. She retains her ever-so-tiny real coral necklace, hand stitched dress, apron, drawers, chemise and petticoat, as well as two lovely cloth “pockets” hanging from her waist. All her clothing is expertly made, even her apron has cartridge pleating. Her carved wooden hands are graceful, but it is her leather face that never fails to move me. Her features are masterfully sculpted and her expression is pensive. Perhaps of all the dolls whose stories have been lost, I am most sorry not to know the circumstances of her creation and survival.” Maker unknown, circa 1850-70.

Wood, mixed fabrics, leather, coral, metal 11.75" x 6.5" x 4"

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Doll in gentleman’s top coat, 1860-70 Milton, MA Mixed fabrics, leather, brass, glass.

J.C. Patton, Indianapolis, IN Domestic Scene, ca. 1915 Gelatin silver print.

Doll with apron, late 19th century Mixed fabrics, mother of pearl, beads.

Doll in blue skirt, 1890-1900 Mixed fabrics, metal.

Pair of dolls with corduroy knickers, ca. 1895-1915 Possibly New Hampshire Mixed fabrics, leather, animal fur, porcelain.

Doll in feed sack dress, 1900-25 Possibly Indiana Mixed fabrics, paint.

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Asked if Neff had advice for new collectors of antique black cloth dolls, she remarked: “I am not going to claim that condition and provenance don’t matter, because they do, but I try not to obsess too much over it either. If you insist on great condition, strong provenance, or both, you will pass up some wonderful creations….Respect wear and tear, and even anonymity, as part of a doll’s history and character.” On the care of an early doll she advises: “If a doll needs mending or stabilizing, have it done by a professional conservator.” Neff also advises

not to “redress a doll, not even in period clothing” and with wisdom and an eye to the future she said, “Think of yourself as the doll’s caretaker, not as its owner.”

Along with the dolls, Neff has assembled a rare collection of period photographs of children with their dolls. These photos document the powerful story of black dolls in America and reveal fascinating insights into the children that played with them. The popularity of handsewn fabric dolls diminished sometime after WWII, marking these dolls as a unique part of American history.

To learn more about Deborah Neff’s Collection: Books Black Dolls-La collection Deborah Neff Co-edition La Maison Rouge, Foundation Antoine de Galbert-Fage Editions. Authors: Deborah Neff, Robin Bernstein, Nellie Mae Rowe, Deborah Willis, Patricia Williams, Madelyn Shaw, Helene Joubert. 2018. Bilingual edition (English/ French) 272 pages/187 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9782849754979 Rare books, $33.67 (price varies) Amazon.

Black Dolls Edited by Frank Maresca Texts by Margo Jefferson, Faith Ringgold, Lyle Rexer. Co-published with the Mingei International Museum (San Diego).

Photography by Ellen McDermott. Collection Deborah Neff. 2014. Clothbound with jacket. 232 pages/44 color images/32 bw images ISBN: 9781934435892. Rare book $250.00 through Radius Books and The New York Historical Society Bookstore “Black Dolls” The New-York Historical Society. February 25th-June 5, 2022. The exhibition has more than 200 objects, including 110 hand-made dolls from the private collection of Deborah Neff among the dolls featured, doll furniture, textiles, books, games, sewing tools, ephemera.

Also exhibited early photographs and daguerreotypes of American children with their dolls. Curated by Margi Hofer and Dominique Jean-Louis. To access interactive material online: nyhistory.org SPECIAL THANKS TO Deborah Neff and Margi Hofer for their interviews and to Ashley Bustamante from the Press Office of The New-York Historical Society for her invaluable help. We also appreciated many special photos from Deborah Neff’s private collection that we were given permission to use for this article.

Unidentified photographer Woman and children with Black cloth dolls, 1942 Gelatin silver print.

**All photos Ellen McDermott Photography. All works from the Deborah Neff Collection**

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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.

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.

7 ~ Spokane, WA. Spokane Falls Doll Club Sale. Antique-Vintage Dolls, Toys, Miniatures.

Country Homes Christian Church. 8415 N. Wall St. 10am-4pm. Joy Hill. 206-949-5942.

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

14-15 ~ Anaheim, CA. Huge Doll Estate Sale. 9 AM - 3 PM. 1304 S. Westchester Drive. Sherryl Shirran. 174-343-4865. sherrylks@aol.com.

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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. 815-2391641. 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.

19-22 ~ Orlando, FL. “Out of This World” Doll Convention with Public Sales Room. Fire-Flies Golden Age of Dolls. Avanti Palms Resort and Conference Center. Cynthia Harris. 321-4313133 (Message). charris779@aol.com. www.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. www.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. S. Bellman. 239-440-3184 (message). sbellman714@gmail.com.

5 ~ Concord, CA. Doll Sale. 101 Doll Club. 10 am - 3 pm. Concord Plaza Hotel. 45 John Glen Dr. For information: Nancy Jo Schreeder. 925-229-4190.

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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/.

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.

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

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

JULY 2022

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.

RowbearPresents@charter.net.

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.

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. www.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. www.danielagnew.com.

4 ~ Iowa City, IA. Ackerman’s July 4th Stars and Stripes Antique Market. Johnson County Fairgrounds. Ackermans. 319-338-8449 or 319430-3737. ba_iowacity@yahoo.com.

9 ~ Fletcher (Asheville), NC. Doll & Bear Show & Sale. WNC Agricultural/Boone Bldg, 1301 Fanning Bridge Rd. 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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31-8/3 ~ St. Louis, MO. Dolls & Teddy Bears Show and Sale. Holiday Inn St. Louis Convention Center. 811 N. 9th St., Downtown. Rowbear Presents. Rowbear Lowman. 831-438-5349.

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AUGUST 2022 2-6 ~ St. Louis, MO. UFDC 73nd Annual Convention. Timeless Treasures. Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch. 315 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102. www.ufdc.org/convention.

5-8 ~ Online. Summer Sizzler Teddy Bear Online Show. Valerie Rogers, (502) 423-7827, brtstar1@ aol.com. www.bright-star-promotions.com.

21 ~ Lynnwood, WA. Antique Doll & Toy Market. Embassy Suites Hotel. 20610 44th Ave. Lisa Pepin. pepins4@msn.com. 206-669-7818.

21 ~ Strongsville, OH. Northern Ohio Doll & Bear Show. Best Western Plus, 15471 Royalton Rd., 44136. Eileen Green. 440-283-5839. phdofdolls@yahoo.com.

27 ~ Schertz (San Antonio), TX. Doll Show & Sale. Hill Country Doll Show & Sale. Schertz Civic Center, 1400 Schertz Pkwy. Dorothy Meredith. 830-606-5868. dmeredith@dolldr.com. www.dolldr.com.

NC Museum of Dolls, Toys & Miniatures Spencer, NC

OPEN Thursday - Saturday 10 am - 4 pm NCMDTM.com or 704-762-9359

28 ~ Dedham, MA. Summer Dedham MA Doll, Bear & Folk Art Show. Collins Gifts. Sturbridge Host Hotel. Wendy Collins. 603-969-1699.

CollinsGifts14@aol.com. www.collinsgifts.com

SEPTEMBER 2022

9-10 ~ Burbank, CA. Jewel City Doll Club 43rd Annual Doll Show and Sale. Burbank Elks Lodge. 2232 N. Hollywood Way. Admission $5.

Free parking. Jewel City Doll Club. Janie Olds.

562-818-2501. j.l.olds@ca.rr.com.

9-12 ~ Online. Fall Stars Teddy Bear Online Show.

Valerie Rogers. 502-423-7827. brtstar1@aol.com. www.bright-star-promotions.com.

10 ~ Triangle (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill), NC. Triangle Doll & Bear Show & Sale.

Southeastern Doll Shows. Amran Shriners Temple, 11101 Creedmoor Rd, Raleigh. Jackie Stone. jackiestone@charter.net. www.SoutheasternDollShows.com.

Sept 15-17 ~ Houston, TX. Bay Area Doll Club Festival and Doll Artisan Qualified Competition. Bay Area Doll Club. Marriott Hotel Houston, Hobby 9100 Gulf Freeway, Houston, TX 77017. Rebecca Hisle. 281-614-0077. beccasdolls@gmail.com. Must Register to attend the 3-day Festival. For more information, contact email in this listing.

11 ~ ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. The Big Event. Brabanthallen. Niesje Wolters van Bemmel agency. Suzan and Paul. 0031 (0)6 300 99 458.

English, German and Dutch. info@niesjewolters.nl. www.niesjewolters.nl.

15-17 ~ Houston, TX. “Together Again!

Friends, Dolls & Fun” Bay Area Doll Club of Texas Convention. Bay Area Doll Club. Marriott South, 9100 Gulf Freeway. Rebecca Hisle. 281614-0077. beccasdolls@gmail.com. Convention workshops, dinners, DAG competition, and Sales Room.

17 ~ Marietta, OH. Fundraiser Doll Show & Sale. Children’s Toy and Doll Museum.

American Legion Post 64, 800 Wooster St. Donna Kern. 740-373- 0349 or 740-516-3888 (cell). djdekern@suddenlink.net. mariettaohio.org/member/toy-doll-museum/.

BUYING ″ANYTHING STEIFF″ Also Vintage Toys

1920s - 1990s

Find more doll events www.antiquedollcollector.com, select “Events” tab.

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

MARY’S STEIFF, TEDDY BEARS, AND FRIENDS Contact Mary (440 ) 223-7253 sammet62@gmail.com

Tynietoy Silhouette Picture with Tynietoy Marking

SARA BERNSTEIN’S DOLLS

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

www.TheDollWorks.net

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Ph. 732‑536‑4101 Email: santiqbebe@aol.com www.rubylane.com/shops/sarabernsteindolls

ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR MAY 2022

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The Ohio National Doll Show Special events October 8th, Doll Show October 9th, 2022

For more information contact Gail Lemmon at (440) 396-5386

We welcome you to our new location at the Cherry Valley Hotel in Newark, Ohio for the doll & bear event of the fall, including: expert lectures, meal events, one of the world’s largest salesrooms & so much more.

Breakfast with Barbie & Bradley Justice

Teddy Bear Picnic Luncheon with John Paul Port

Tea Time with Rhoda Wade

Billye Harris will be providing appraisals for $5 each.

Appraisal proceeds will benefit the UFDC

Candlelit Dinner with Alan Scott Pate

Event Registration & More Information at

ohionationaldollshow.com

HOTEL REGISTRATION: Call (740) 788-1200 & Reference Ohio National 2022 Doll Show For Group Rate

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