Antique DOLL Collector December 2015 Vol. 18, No. 11
The Complete Guide to Antique, Vintage and Collectible Dolls
December 2015 Volume 18, Number 11
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Theriault’s Announces January 2016 Marquis Auctions Exciting highlights from Theriault’s important January auctions in Newport Beach, CA.
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THE BUCHERER NATIVITY SET… an inspiring example of beauty and creativity by Carol Cameron The holidays are beckoning and with that in mind we have prepared a special holiday issue for you. Our cover features a few of the exciting items coming up at Theriault’s on January 9 and10 in Newport Beach, CA. An extraordinary collection of early wooden, cloth and paper mache dolls, toys and folk art from the Alice Florence Schott Collection which has been housed in recent decades in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, will be offered. Also to be sold a magnificent A. Marque marked number 7 in the series, in impeccable condition and wearing its outstanding original costume from the Ballets Russes series. Rare German and French bebe and poupées and automata round out this special Marquis auction.
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Lee Ed The Dolls of Leola & Edgar Schulze by Christiane Gräfnitz
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Noël Au Château by Jan Peterson Doll vignettes tell the story of a nineteenth century Christmas Eve celebration in France.
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Printed dolls by l’Imagerie de Paris by Samy Odin
Printed cloth dolls, animals and paper dolls sheets from a 19th century Parisian publishing company.
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UFDC NATIONAL modern COMPETITIVE EXHIBIT Blue Ribbon Winners - Part II Photographed by Keith Kaonis at the 2015 UFDC National Convention in Kansas City, MO
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The Huret, An Inspired French Fashion by Deb Hoffman 6
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2015 Golden Glow Convention
Holiday collectors celebrated Christmas in July at the annual Golden Glow convention.
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1) Hugh 20” Pinnochio! w/ 17” cir. head! Authentic Disney by Ideal with label & hat. Wow! $1200 7” Ginny Types - molded lash walkers in factory clothes. $80 each 2) 19” Pre-1900 Simon Halbig ‘Mariner’ - with French trade PW eyes, orig. red hair, unusual body w. toy shop label, wearing splendid 2-piece nautical outfit w. matching hat. $795 3) 14” Deanna Durbin in Box w. Label - complete w. photo, pin, great color, no craze, rare hairdo and outfit! $1250 4) 19” Hoffmeister Character - We love this pert ‘Hanna Face’ child w. her dewy sheen, shoe button eyes, pursed lips, and oodles of mohair curls - everything mint! $750 5) Scarce 19” JDK 247 Toddler Hilda’s older sister, satin flawless bisque, sleep eyes, porc. teeth, plaster pate, wig, and chubby mint toddler body, with adorable period clothes & shoes. Quite different! $950 6) 14” Anne of Green Gables Anne Shirley in orig. F&B Box w. Label, lid, bracelet, plus additional hat & coat, excellent color & condition. $750. 28” ‘Anne Shirley’ - orig. wig, period dress, clear eyes, light craze, remarkable size! Just $395 7) 15” Black Gbr. Heubach 7672 Sunburst - A rare one with marvelous ethnic features, w. molded textured hair, intaglio side glancing eyes, open/closed glazed mouth in mischievous smile, fired in color. A work of art. $895 8) 14” Mary Hoyer Boy - scarce one with caracul wig, sleep eyes, Hoyer label in his mint 4-piece outfit. $395. 15” Little Men - Tommy Bangs by Mme. Alexander with label in his complete outfit too! Comes with Alexander box & lid. $895 9-10) 20” Totally Original JDK 260 Character Toddler - Factory perfect is this snow pure dumpling w/ mint ringlet wig,plaster pate, 4-porc. teeth, even the eyelashes and layers of excellent clothes & leather shoes on a fully jointed child toddler body. You’ll love her! $895 11) Neapolitan Creche Angels (largest 12” tall) glass eyes, orig. facial paint & windswept hair, orig. ‘as found’ bodies need restoring but two early rare angels for just! $495 12) Mint ‘Petite’ in Original Box - a real charmer with her red hair & bangs, swing tag w. poem, fancy label on box - all really mint ‘from the shelf‘! $695 13) 14” Colorful Lenci Male - mint doll, ‘Ungherese’, in a splendid costume, complete w. embroidered vest, w. pierced brass buttons, be-flowered hat and 2-tags! $495
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Theriault’s Announces January 2016 Marquis Auctions
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heriault’s legendary “The January Auctions” are known for their presentation of the best, the different, the discovery of long-long collections. The January 9th and 10th, 2016 auctions keep that legend alive in grand form. Whether collectors are seeking the best of the classic French and German bisque dolls, whether their quests have taken them to earlier times in a search for rare wooden or wax dolls, if the magic of automata is their desire, or early folk art American dolls and toys, whether they seek the “something different” such as 150-year old wooden Japanese dolls, Theriault’s auction is the place to be this year. For more details about either auction, or to request a free color brochure call 410‑224‑3655 or email info@theriaults.com.
The Saturday Auction of Antique Dolls “Forever Young”
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he Alice Florence Schott Collection of rare early dolls has not been long-lost, but rather lost-in-plain-sight. Bequeathed to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (of which Alice Schott was one of the founders) in the mid-1900s, the dolls have been carefullypreserved in museum archives for decades, and are now being sold, with the blessing of the Schott family descendants, to aid the museum in their “acquisition of fine arts rather than folk arts”, and to allow others to acquire and appreciate the dolls rather than keeping them stored and seen infrequently. Keynote in the Alice Florence Schott collection, to be sold on Saturday, January 9 in an auction titled “Forever Young”, is an extraordinary collection of early wooden, cloth and paper mache dolls, toys and folk art, some of which are shown here, and include not only examples of German and English carved wooden ladies with very fine early costumes seldom found today, but also American folk hand-carved toys and American cloth dolls such as those of Izannah Walker (including a rare 13” size), likely similar to those with which Alice Florence Schott was familiar in her early Nebraska childhood where she was born in 1881. In 1919, she moved to Santa Barbara with her husband, and for the next halfcentury not only traveled extensively in
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A fabulous A. Marque, marked 7, is wearing the original costume from the Ballets Russes and is in impeccable condition. Examples of other early wooden toys from the Alice Florence Schott collection, each of these with amusing mechanical action.
Likely originally presented as an exhibition set, the six German paper mache dolls are wonderfullypreserved, each wearing well-detailed folklore costume of Eastern Europe, and represent only a small sample of varied early paper maches, large and small, with differing coiffures, to be found at the “Forever Young” auction.
Above: From a collection of fine early doll furnishings to be presented at the January auction. Left: Early period beautiful bebes by Jumeau are always prized, even more when found in their increasingly-rare original Jumeau costumes and shoes.
Notable for dynamic facial expressions and body poses, each of this exceptional group of Neopolitan dolls is wearing its wonderfully preserved costume.
An exceptionally rare group of Grodnertal wooden dolls. The larger stands 39” and is graced with a very rare style of carved coiffure, swivel waist, and original garland of painted flowers at the bodice. The smaller group, at 14” are each wearing original historical costumes with fabulous detail.
The collection of Alice Florence Schott from the archives of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art includes many wonderful early games and toys which are seldom found today.
The rare shell dolls are rendered even more desirable, as they were created and have remained a pair for their 175 year lives.
The extremelyrare doll model patented by Dominico Checkeni of Connecticut in 1866 has four alternate faces which revolve on a unique vertical axis. Few examples of this model are known to exist.
The glorious face of the Bru bebe, one blue-eyed, one brown-eyed, is enhanced by totally original and oh-so-rare original costumes and signed shoes.
As though it’s not enough to have the rare wooden body with porcelain limbs, this early porcelain doll is arranged on its original fortune-teller base.
The iconic American Doll by Izannah Walker is presented in two examples at Theriault’s January auction “Forever Young”, both from the Alice Florence Schott Collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and one being a very rare 13” size.
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