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Auction Preview: François Theimer September 25
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rançois Theimer’s Saturday, September 25 auction in Paris at the Ambassador Hotel features an impressive array of French bebes and fashion dolls, toys, automatons, antique fashions and interesting curiosities. Here is a small sampling of dolls to be offered – see his ad in this issue. For more information go to www.theimer.fr François Theimer, Tél (33) 3 86 74 31 76 Fax (33) 3 86 74 32 13 4 rue des Cavaliers 89130 TOUCY France - email: francois.theimer@wanadoo.fr
L-R: Bébé STEINER size 36”, figure A Léon Casimir BRU parisienne with smiling face, H 24” Parisienne by François GAULTIER, H 24” Bébé JUMEAU CARRIER BELLEUSE size 13 Above: Male parisienne by Auguste DEHORS, H 18”
Auction Preview: Galerie de Chartres September 25
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very year the Galerie de Chartres holds one of its four annual Exhibitions on Friday, September 24th from 3 pm till 5 pm sales of dolls the last weekend of September; this year the date is and from 8:30 pm till 10 pm. On Saturday, September 25th from Saturday, September 25. 9 am till 10 am. Besides games, antiques bears and German and French baby The catalogue may be ordered for 8€ on inquiry or on dolls in celluloid, it will present an interesting collection of more www.interencheres.com/28001 and www.ivoire-chartres.com than eighty pieces of doll dishes in earthenware of Sarreguemines 15 days before the beginning of the auction. including tea, coffee sets and sweet boxes, all in polychromatic Galerie De Chartres: 10 Rue Claude Bernard ZA Le Coudray BP 70129 decoration of scenes of children’s games or family life according 28630 Chartres Le Coudray to the famous English draftswoman of the 19th century, Kate Phone: 02.37.88.28.28 A collection Greenaway and the French illustrator Fromentin Richard. Fax: 02.37.88.28.20 of more than Beautiful French dolls from the end of the 19th Email: chartres@ eighty pieces century will be also be offered: bebes Steiner, Bru and of earthenware galeriedechartres.com Jumeau among them, two fine models, one a Jumeau doll dishes from “Portrait” and a Jumeau “long face”, as well as Sarreguemines will be offered. fashion dolls. The catalogue will also present character dolls including a large Asian doll Simon and Halbig mold 1129, open mouth dolls, doll Bebes and doll furniture. furniture and clothing.
Jumeau, size10, in original box. Rare Jumeau “long face”, size 12.
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