Antique DOLL Collector January 2010 Vol. 12, No. 12
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The Panorama of Parisienne Dolls 1630-1889 by Danielle & François Theimer
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Memoirs of a Parisienne Story and photographs by Kathleen Crescuillo
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ello my name is Marjorie, how I received this name I don’t know, but I have been called Marjorie for as long as I can remember. I have learned that I am also called by another name, “Poupee Bois”, or French Fashion-type Lady with a wood body. I am the perfect diminutive size of 45cm. Many years ago I started life in a factory in France that was named for my creator, a toy-maker called Jumeau. It was in the late 1860’s or early 1870’s that I came into being, but I am not certain exactly what year, I am very old and tend to forget things. I have been lovingly cared for over the years by many kind people. My first friend was a sweet young girl and I wish I was able to remember her name. I think I was a gift to her from a family member. She took very good care of me, never dropping me on my head or brushing out my long golden curls. Many of my beautiful silk gowns came from Paris, where they were handmade just for me. Someone was always making me delicate undergarments. My young owner would have such fun on shopping trips buying me little trinkets and accessories to make me happy. I came to her with a fashionable grey trunk that had a brass plaque attached to the slightly domed lid. Embossed on the plaque were many French words “Aux Enfants Sages” (The Well Behaved Child) and “Passage Jouffroy” (a covered street in Paris that is well known for toy shops) and “Benon & Cie” (the maker of the trunk or the name of the toy shop).
Courtesy Harpers Bazaar
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Ashley’s Dolls & Antiquities
1. 14" Maggie Bessie Antique Cloth doll from Old Salem, North Carolina. Wonderful hand painted face with painted blue eyes and light brown hair (some stains, cracking at right eye). She is wearing her original pink dress, slip, undies, shoes (broken snaps) and socks. Her bonnet is a old replacement. Very scarce and hard to find doll! $18,500. 2. 19" Kammer & Reinhardt Mold #127 with Toddler body. This cutie has set (reset) blue glass eyes, brush stroke painted hair, open mouth, cute body (repainted) and replacement nautical clothing. $1195 3. 10" Belton type doll incised with 0 only. Pretty set blue glass eyes on darling face with lovely closed mouth. Pierced ears, mohair wig, ball jointed composition body with straight wrists. Very nice replacement clothing made from antique fabrics and laces. Darling girl! $1100 4. 30" Simon & Halbig/Handwerck child doll. Large, brown glass sleep eyes, molded brows, well defined lips. Antique clothing is a confection of laces. Stamped Handwerck body (one lower leg is a repainted antique replacement). Antique mohair wig. Such a sweet girl! $850 5. 26" German Bisque socket head doll. Head is incised with KR 14. Beautiful, brown sleep eyes, Human hair wig, Pretty antique clothing. Precious!! $795 6. 16" boy with large "watermelon" grin. Blue glass sleep eyes, brush stroke painted hair with molded top knot and side curls. Bent limb composition baby body. Nicely redressed in a nautical themed outfit.
This is a Nippon version of the Hertel, Schwab & Co. Mold #172. Extra fun and difficult to find! $1895 7. 13" Kestner Mold number 143. Blue sleep eyes, stamped ball jointed body, antique clothing, replaced mohair wig. What a cutie!! $850 8. 12" Belton type incised with 3 only. She has cobalt blue set eyes and a pretty closed mouth. Ball jointed composition body with straight wrists (wear to body). Beautifully redressed in a costume of antique silk and laces. Human hair wig. So, so lovely!! $1100 9. 20" German China head doll. Delicate painted smiling mouth, blue painted eyes, molded and painted black hair. Cloth body with leather arms and hands. Extremely nice antique clothing. Very nice size to display! $795 10. 25" Handwerck Mold #99 child doll. Lovely blue sleep eyes, open mouth with four upper teeth. Stamped Handwerck ball jointed body (wear to hands), antique crochet pink dress with lace, replaced mohair wig, shoes and socks. Beautiful girl! $550 11. 12" Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt cloth dolls by Mary Green. Very nicely hand painted faces, mohair hair, wire armature bodies with delicate fingers. Artist made clothing. These are vintage cloth dolls that are truly unique!! $625 pair 12. 23" Simon & Halbig "Baby Blanche". Blue sleep eyes, pierced ears, vintage and antique clothing, replaced wig. So pretty and harder to find! $595
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27� Greiner boy with a molded, side part boy’s hairstyle painted black with brush strokes painted around the edges. Heavy cotton home made body with twill torso, separate upper legs sewn on and separate lower legs sewn on at knee. Upper arms are plain cotton, dark cream leather lower arms from above the elbow have separate fingers. Photo Carol Corson, private collection
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magine for a moment standing at the entrance of the salesroom at the United Federation of Doll Clubs at the National Convention. Peering in, it is easy to spot many lovely dolls for sale. Some of these items are almost impossible to resist. Always the lovely ones: the Brus, the Jumeaus, a rare German character; even an originally dressed dolly-face in laces and ribbons, or a fashion in ethnic clothes. Next to these lovelies are the quiet ones, dolls that do not attract the attention of the bulk of the attendees. There, in hushed silence, stand the old papier maches. There will not be too many of these dolls, although there are probably more than had been first noticed. Most of these papier mache dolls will be of German manufacture. The French type (although the heads were often
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Mark stamped on lower back of shoulder plate. This stamp is found on the back shoulderplate of these early dolls. It is believed that these dolls were made by Greiner pre-1858.
34-1/2� patent head. Molded center part hairstyle tucked behind her ears ending in ten sausage curls. Molded eyelids with a fine black upper lid line and upper lashes. Home made cotton body with replaced linen arms and leather hands. Photo Carol Corson, private collection.
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by Kathy Embry
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hroughout the years there have been many American female icons – the vamp, the flapper, Miss America, the pin up, sex kitten, sweater girl, Barbie, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, playmate and playboy bunny – but the original was Charles Dana Gibson’s “The Gibson Girl.” The Gibson Girl had a personality that transcended the medium of print. She was to artwork what Marilyn Monroe was to photography. For a generation of women, she was the equivalent of today’s supermodel. She was brought to life in a series of winsome pen and ink drawings by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson and led the way for the style and fashions from 1890 to 1910. She appeared in dozens of magazines even though she was a figment of the
Brunette shoulderhead with feathered eyebrows, marked “172”, Kestner crown and streamers sticker. Larry and Patricia Gosh collection. Rare blonde socket head, no mold number, one stroke eyebrows. Kathy and Mike Embry Collection. View of socket head from behind, red stamp “Germany” over “1.” Note her hour-glass figure. Notice the padded bosom on the mold 172.
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Side view of both 16 inch dolls.
imagination and never had a name of her own, but always referred to as “The Gibson Girl.” Sometimes accompanied by “The Gibson Man”, together they instructed on matters of dress and attitude. She was spunky and sentimental, down to earth and aristocratic at the same time. She was pictured attending college and choosing the best mate, but she was never pictured as part of a suffrage march. She was tall and slender, with an hour glass figure achieved by wearing a swan-bill corset. She had youthful features, ephemeral beauty, her neck was thin, and her hair piled high upon her head in the contemporary bouffant, pompadour and chignon fashions. She was multi-faceted, always at ease and fashionable. She was depicted as an equal, feminine but also able to brake through several gender barriers for her attire allowed her to participate in sports, including golf, roller skating and bicycling. Her characteristic clothing was a high-necked, fitted blouse or bodice with full puff sleeves and a long skirt with a flared bottom and a tightly fitted waistline. She was everything American women in 1900 aspired to be. Gibson’s interests were in portraying the social set rather than political figures and his audience enjoyed the way he poked fun at high society characters. In 1890 he started drawing “The Gibson Girl” and later featured her in his full independent portfolio and she sold magazines. Whole fashion lines were started when Gibson placed a ribbon on her forehead or a certain style dress on her tall figure.
Many models posed for Gibson Girl-style illustrations, including his wife, Irene Langhorne. At the pen of her husband’s hand, she set the fashion trend for the ideal American woman along with already being the ideal Southern Belle. Born in Richmond, VA, Irene had beauty and vitality and dared for more than sport activities. She was actively involved with politics and worked for social justice. The incredibly beautiful teenage showgirl Evelyn Nesbit was the subject of the famous Gibson drawing entitled “Women: the Eternal Question” published in 1905. This was one of Gibson’s best known works, which helped Evelyn enter the ranks of the famous turn-of-the-century “Gibson Girls.” Evelyn also became a chorus girl in the hit musical “Floradora” and was the sole bread winner for her mother and brother. When you see a Floradora doll produced by Armand Marseille remember that it was named after Evelyn’s role in the Broadway show of the same name. Evelyn was an icon created and consumed by the public’s insatiable appetite for public scandal. Her starring role came in 1906 with the real life sensational murder in Madison Square Garden’s rooftop theatre of Stanford White, her former benefactor and ex-lover, by her husband, Harry Thaw, in defense of her honor three years after the fact. The first “trial of the century” cast her forever in the popular mind as “the girl in the red velvet swing” a 1955 film based on her personal life. One of the most famous models that posed for Gibson was the Danish-American stage actress Camille Clifford
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The Shops of the Nuremberg Christian Hacker Company Excerpt from the book of Swantje Köhler: Christian Hacker – Wooden Toy factory in Nuremberg 1835 -1927
A simpler version of this shop was shown in an 1893 ad from the American toy dealer Stirn. (Antik Toy Store)
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t the beginning of the 19th century middle aspects contributed to the popularity of miniature and upper-class households in the cities were grocery shops at the beginning of the 19th century. neither self-sustaining nor did they store a lot Consequently, the wooden toy factory of Christian of food. Every day they sent out their employees to do Hacker from Nuremberg focused on the production the shopping in different stores. Usually children from of toy shops during their early business years. The such families were not allowed to do the shopping. factory was founded in 1835 and produced dollhouses, However, for their future lives as the lady of a house kitchens, shops, stables, castles, warehouses, guard or bread winner, children had to learn how things houses, cars and many other wooden toys. The factory were to be managed and how won two medals at the Great everything worked. Miniature Exhibition in Paris. stores were the ideal toys to Many varieties of toy shops teach children about food and could be found. In Hacker’s ingredients, merchandise and account book from 1836, handling of money. While most toys pharmacies were listed, followed were only for boys or girls only, by shops for spices. The goods toy shops were ideal for both sexes sold in such a shop were similar and siblings could play together to those sold in the chemist’s shop Wooden barrels and boxes were with a toy shop. Maybe all these produced later. There were spices as supplied by others.
Luxury version of a so called “polished Brussels shop with golden bars”. (Collection Ulrike Wachendorff)
well as typical products to be found in a pharmacy such as drugs, remedies and herbs. Chemicals in very small quantities for households could be purchased, for example powders for dyeing and bleaching, cleaning supplies, paint and similar substances. In addition, every kind of tobacco was available, from the most expensive to the cheapest. Shop owners or merchants bought tobacco tied up in rolls, and slices were cut off to order. The brown rolls in the miniature shops were made from wood and collectors sometimes mistakenly think that they are supposed to be a German cake called “Baumkuchen”. To illustrate where the goods came from and to give children an idea of these strange far-away countries, the Hacker company decorated many shops with exotic transfers, which showed the colonial masters and the natives of those foreign countries together in a friendly and idealized way. In the Biedermeier era, milliner’s were fashionable and very popular with little girls. Right from the beginning Christian Hacker produced a great number of them. They could be ordered empty or filled with ribbons, bonnets, dresses, clothes, silk flowers, and fabrics. After 1847 milliner’s were sometimes listed as “Modehandlungen” (fashion shops) and could be purchased painted
A smaller version of the “polished Brussels shop with golden bars” shown in an sample book of the Roth & Rau company (Toy Museum Nuremberg)
Christian Hacker kitchen from about 1880. This forms is called “English Style kitchen” (Ströher collection). 43
Another doll made entirely of rhodoïd measures 19” (photo left). It has sleep plastic eyes with synthetic upper lashes, an open mouth with two upper teeth, and wears a short curly rayon wig. The body has a voice mechanism visible in the front of the torso. The original outfit consists in a very well made yellow piqué dress trimmed with red and green felt, matching red felt umbrella and cotton and straw espadrilles. This seems to be the largest size made by URIKA. The same head mold was also used for a doll advertised under the name of Noëlle. She differs from the one described above, for it has a metal wired soft plastic body, which is very difficult to find today in nice condition. Noëlle seems slightly shorter than her all rhodoïd sister but the size of the head is identical. In 1953, October 14, the company patented another doll that could drink, wet, cry and blow soap bubbles. I have not been able to find any doll corresponding to this patent. However, this seems to be the last attempt of Madame Ulrych to innovate in the doll field, since she closed her doll company for good in 1957. A namesake of Madame Ulrych’s founded a movie production company in Paris in 1958 but haven’t yet had confirmation that it concerns the same person. Today, the URIKA dolls and characters are already appreciated by French doll collectors, especially by those who focus their interest in the baby boomer period and by those who collect celluloid and rhodoïd dolls. The quality of this small doll production makes it an especially enjoyable collectible for the variety of models created by Lucy Ulrych keep their search dynamic, affordable and colorful. Photos by Jean Dalmard (except no. 11 taken by the author)
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Radiguet & Cordonnier fashion doll, 16-3/4” with posed arms, bisque feet. Mary Ann Spinelli, Temecula, CA.
Edwardian townhouse by Lines Bros. of London, c. 1880. Provenance the Washington Dolls’ Hosue and Toy Museum. Ann Timpson, Essex Falls, NJ.
Kestner Bru type, $985. Pat Vaillancourt, Adamstown, PA.
December 5 & 6 Gaithersburg, MD Doll Show
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either rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep a doll collector from attending the December Gaithersburg Doll show. A long line of attendees patiently waited for the Saturday 10 am opening, their coats and hair glistening with giant size snowflakes. A holiday spirit prevailed, all of us enjoying this special occasion to mingle with fellow collectors and shop the fantastic array of antique dolls, accessories, and holiday decorations.
Kestner 221 googly, $12,500. Gert Leonard, E & G Antiques, San Dimas, CA.
Jumeau automaton, $4800. Scott’s Antiques, Whitefishby, WI.
Heubach cats, $1900 and $2500. Ann Lloyd, Doylestown, PA.
Lucy Peck Wax, Glenn Stevens for Richard Wright Antiques, Birchrunville, PA.
Early Belton, $4500 and an unmarked PD on its right, $18,000. Becky and Andy Ourant, Adamstown, PA.
Bellman’s Gaithersburg show is a dog friendly event. This is Louie belonging to Pat Vaillancourt.
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TEDDY BEAR – German, before 1940, excluding Steiff. Dorothy Zeidler
TEDDY BEAR - American, before 1940. Gladys Woodward
UFDC Modern Competitive Exhibit 2009 Blue Ribbon Winners Part II
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TEDDY BEAR - Novelty with teddy bear type head. Pam Coghlan
rom early teddy bears to Panchito the Chicken, the modern competitive category is full of fun surprises. And what antique doll collector could not appreciate the exquisite Dorothy Heizer doll, winner of the President’s Choice award. We hope you enjoyed this look back at many of the blue ribbon winners. The competitive exhibits add so much to the convention week – thank you to all the contributing UFDC members.
Photographed at the United Federation of Doll Clubs National Convention by Keith Kaonis
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ADVERTISING Doll, human or animal, promoting Coca Cola, 1970 or before. Laurie McGill ADVERTISING Doll, composition or wood and composition promoting a U.S. product or service, excluding beverages. Becky Wallace
ADVERTISING - Pair promoting a U.S. product or service, 1970 or before. Pam Coghlan
ADVERTISING - Doll, hard plastic or vinyl, promoting a U.S. product or service, excluding beverages. Marseille Bunk
CELEBRITY - Adult male performer from stage, movies, radio or TV, 1970 or before. Loretta Nardone
CELEBRITY - Adult female performer from stage, movies, radio or TV, 1970 or before. Left to right: Melody Andersen, Ray Radley Lillian Russell, Loretta Nardone Fanny Brice, Gayle Hansen
CELEBRITY - Public life character, adult male or female. Left, Louis XV, Vicki Miller Above, General E. Lee, Boudre McAllister
COSTUMED BY EXHIBITOR - Southern belle gown appropriate to the Civil War era. Left, Gay Mertz. Right, Elaine Carps 63