Antique DOLL Collector January 2013 Vol. 15, No. 12
January 2013 Vol. 15, No. 12 $595 / $695 Canada www.antiquedollcollector.com
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Connie
A stunning 20” Bru Jne 7 on the desirable Chevrot style body. This French Bebe has fabulous bisque, an expressive look about her face with a molded tongue, and what appears to be her original clothing. Her kid body is still bright white with minimal soiling and a Bru paper label on her chest. One of the nicest Bru Jne`s we have handled this year! $26,500
Jay
A fine early example of a 24” brown eyed china in untouched all original condition. The typical center part “Greiner” style hair this china has exposed ears, fine facial features such as painted lower eye lashes & red liner above her eyes. The dress is a wonderful cotton print, body is cloth with leather arms(a bit of splitting at seams). Reasonably priced due to a hairline on the rear of the shoulder plate. $600 Rare 16 1/2” Tete Jumeau on French composition walking body w/ clockwork mechanism. The closed mouth Jumeau, marked Tete Jumeau #7 on rear of head, has finely painted facial features with her blue paperweight eyes set off her peaches & cream bisque. Dressed in an older print dress she still retains her original blond mohair wig and leather shoe covering on her metal “roller” feet. An unusual doll and seldom found especially with a closed mouth! $3750
A 16 1/2” E7J Jumeau Bebe, purchased over thirty years ago and tucked away in a collection, this all original Bebe is quite beautiful. The soft bisque is accented by her blue paperweight eyes and her original blond mohair wig with curls cascading down her back. A fine aqua wool dress with a multitude of undergarments cover her 8 ball jointed Jumeau body, she still retains the original coil spring in her head! Overall this Bebe is in wonderful original condition, her compo body is in near mint original finish and her clothing is in excellent condition with very minimal moth holes to rear of dress. $5500
A 7 1/2” black stocking S&H all bisque w/blue glass sleep eyes. Finely painted facial details, this all bisque has an open mouth with two upper teeth. Virtually no damage whatsoever to the bisque parts other than a minute chip on top of left leg at hip. A real cutey! $1100
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More Than Just a Pretty Face By Lynn Murray
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he year is 1869. Two businessmen, Wilhelm Simon and Carl Halbig joined forces to establish a porcelain factory. The elder partner, Wilhelm Simon, was an established toy maker from Hildburghausen. He would bring experience and financial backing to the partnership. The 30-year-old Carl Halbig was a visionary who would bring a set of high standards for quality and efficient methods of production to the new company. 1869 was a year of significant accomplishments for business and industry around the world. In the United States, Ulysses Grant succeeded Andrew Johnson as the 18th President of the US. The Civil War was over and the first railroad across North America was completed with the driving of the “golden spike” at Promontory, Utah. In Egypt, the Suez Canal was inaugurated, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. These changes in transportation and shipping would have profound effects on trade. In the literary world, the work of Louisa May Alcott shared the shelf with that of Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, Horatio Alger and Leo Tolstoy. P.T. Barnum wrote his autobiography “Struggles and Triumphs” and John Stuart Mill wrote the controversial “Subjection of Women.” Two early cloth body dolls with solid dome heads, glass eyes, bisque lower arms and legs. The larger doll is 8 inches tall, the smaller, just 5.5 inches. The 3.5 inch all-bisque is from a modified version of the basic mold, with molded hair. Dolls are from the Collection of Lynn Murray ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR
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of Concord, New Hampshire by Joy Harrington
Photographs by Joy Harrington and Carol Corson
Tilly cools off on hot summer days by wearing her light weight white cotton low neck dress. The dress is fastened in the back with simple loops and buttons at the neckline and waist. The sleeves are trimmed in lace and the waist is adorned with silk ribbon threaded through lace trim. She has on her light weight white stockings and blue leather shoes and her straw hat with blue ribbon trim.
s an ardent doll collector, I will admit to spending too much time checking out auction web sites, speed reading through auction lists and scrutinizing photographs for some desired treasure. Last summer while checking a favorite New England auctioneer website, I spotted a potential treasure. I enlarged the picture as much as my screen would allow and there before me was a wax-over taufling pictured next to what looked like a trunk of clothes. The clothes looked promising as I spotted what looked like an early dress amidst the pile of indiscernible textiles. My heart went pitter patter! I love early dolls. And I especially love dolls with their original wardrobes. Could I be so lucky? I checked the date of the auction. As luck would have it, I was already planning to be nearby the auction house while traveling with friends. The date of the sale finally arrived and I went off to the auction with my friends, who are also doll lovers. 32
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Tilly enjoys wearing her green checked silk skirt and white cotton blouse for a walk in the garden. The skirt is enhanced with trim on the waist and down the folds of the skirt. The blouse is made of windowpane cotton and has simple trim at the neckline with a five button front closure.
We entered the auction house and I quickly spotted her lying unceremoniously on a table with the trunk beside her. My friends and I quickly inspected her and her trunk of clothing, trying not to draw too much attention to the object of my desire! She was a taufling as I suspected and unceremoniously dressed in an early 20th century romper and earlier coat. The trunk appeared to contain her original wardrobe. I was ecstatic! With my friends encouraging me, we decided to sit through the auction until my girl came up. I scanned the room for competition. This was a general estate auction, so there were no familiar doll lovers visible in the crowd. But who knew what left bids or phone bids there were. When my doll came up for bid, she opened with a left bid, I then made the next bid and miraculously she became mine! I quickly paid for her and we gathered her up with her trunk and headed off to the motel to fully inspect her and her belongings.
We discovered that I had just purchased an obviously well loved and cared for eighteeninch German wax-over sleep-eyed taufling with a wardrobe for a young girl of the late 1850’s. Somewhere in time, my girl had sustained a crack to her left temple as well as the usual surface cracks on the wax, a scuff to her nose and slip covering to the cloth parts of her body and her composition torso. In addition, her wood, composition and wax surfaces were covered with a substance that had aged to an inappropriate dark mahogany color. Fortunately, the dark areas were easily removed revealing her natural color below. A full accounting of the trunk’s contents revealed a complete wardrobe for a young girl of the late 1850’s including four dresses, a skirt, two blouses, a nightgown and robe, two sets of underwear, a coat with a separate cape, four hats, two pairs of stockings, two aprons and a smock, a pair of boots and a pair of shoes as well as her 1920’s era romper and a handmade pattern of the romper. All of her circa 1850’s clothing is machine and handsewn by a talented seamstress who employed the usual construction techniques of the day such as lining all of the dress bodices and using cording around the armholes. As we admired my new doll, who I quickly
Tilly’s school dress is made of a black and white check wool blend and is trimmed in red wool tape with a simple lace trim at the neckline. The dress fastens in the back with tiny black buttons. She wears her brown leather boots and heavier stockings for warmth on the long walk to the school house.
Tilly shows off her low neck blue dress with white cotton dimity blouse. The dress has cap sleeves and is trimmed in black velvet ribbon. The dress fastens in the back with hook and eyes and is trimmed with tiny buttons on the back bodice. Her long sleeved blouse is made of dimity and buttons in the back. There is corded detail at the arm holes and simple white trim at the neckline.
Tilly arrives for the Christmas party in her wool coat and cape. Both are trimmed in blue ribbon which matches the ribbon on her brown velvet hat. The coat closes with five tiny black buttons and the cape has a brass hook and eye closure at the neck.
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Dewees Cochran and Her Portrait Children by Don Jensen Dewees Cochran touching up one of her unique doll heads.
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n a cold January day in 1934, Dewees Cochran boarded a bus outside Saks Fifth Avenue, heading for an upscale shop, Young Books, not far away on Madison Avenue. She was thinking about what the Saks toy buyer had just advised: “Do something realistic, more life-like than these dolls.” Dewees had been creating handmade cloth dolls for only a few months, trying to sell them, with limited success, to Manhattan retailers including Saks, F.A.O. Schwarz and Macy’s. As she pondered the buyer’s words on the short bus ride to the bookstore, an idea came to her. “Why not make a doll to order, to look just like a specific child?” A few minutes later, she hesitantly explained her idea to the bookshop owner. The response was immediate and enthusiastic: “How soon can you have one made?” This was the real beginning of a more than 40-year doll making career for Dewees Cochran. So many wonderful things would follow, including Effanbee’s production of her American Children and her limited editions of Cindy and the Grow-Ups, Susan Stormalong, Angela
The Linda Payson doll with head molded from Plastic Wood, was created for mother, heiress Joan Whitney Payson. Linda Payson, 5, and doll, astride her horse at the 1936 Greentree Fair benefit event. ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR
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