Antique DOLL Collector September 2009 Vol. 12, No. 8
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15” Tete Jumeau Automation, brown paperweight eyes, 3 1/2” base, key wind, on / off lever, plays music while she smells the flowers, egg opens to reveal a baby bird as her head moves to gaze down at egg, redressed beautifully in authentic style and vintage type materials $4995.00
19 ½” S & H 1358 fabulous African American character, molded eyebrows, great painting, o/m with teeth, pierced ears, all original wig, dress with scarf, shoes with buckle and heels, brown sleep eyes Call
17” Fabulous C/M Kestner XII on early stiff wrist body, original wig, antique white eyelet dress and undergarments, original paint on finger nails, antique leather shoes, beautiful coloring and eyebrows $4500.00
21 ½” S & H 769 fabulous character face, wonderful 8 ball body, brown eyes, antique clothing & shoes, outline on lips, molded teeth, pierced ears, mohair wig, antique hat $3250.00
16” C/M Depose Tete Jumeau 6, fabulous blue eyes, mohair wig and cork pate, antique dress (as is), undergarments & bonnet, leather shoes, pierced ears $4395.00
7 ½” African American Kestner all original on ball jointed body, great wig and plaster pate, brown sleep eyes $850.00
12” #2 Bru Jner on Walker body, blue eyes, sweet face, mohair wig, hands repainted, silk lined straw hat $3195.00
11 ½” C/M Belton 3 hole, #137, blue eyes, stiff wrist ball jointed body, antique dress & shoes, cute straw hat $1550.00
13” C/M Kestner 3, original wig and vintage dress, blue sleep eyes, cute size $2095.00
8” Alexander Dionne Quints wigged toddlers in floral rompers and hats, shoes & socks, 4 original pins (missing Cecile) $1195.00
3 ½” Schuco mohair jointed bear $97.50
8” Alexander Dionne Quints bent leg babies, molded hair, painted eyes, original slips and diapers, 4 original bonnets $950.00
7 ½” Kestner #150 – 2 All Bisque, brown sleep eyes, black molded slippers and blue stockings, cute vintage dress & bonnet, original wig, holding her jointed all bisque doll with molded bonnet $750.00
14” 1950 Alexander Cinderella & Prince Charming all original in tagged outfits, Cinderella wears blue satin dress and “glass” slippers $1250.00
25” “Sweet Nell” by ABG, Alt Beck & Gottschalk #1326 Made in Germany, o/m, blue stationary eyes, dressed in vintage style dress and undergarments $525.00 22” K * R #403 on Walker body, head moves side to side as legs move back and forth, brown sleep eyes, o/m, mohair wig, cute expression $650.00 11” long by 5” Steiff German Sheppard mohair dog with red collar, button in ear, glass eyes, cute doll accessory $110.00
6 1/2” Eugenia Series No. 3 by McLoughlin Brothers, NY, mint and uncut, paperdoll and book with 4 front/ back costumes and 5 bonnets, 1863 - 69, fabulous $195.00 13” Raphel Tuck Pat’d Feb. 20th 1894 Doll and 4 costumes, one holding a doll, 3 bonnets, beautiful detailing to doll and costumes $125.00
7 ½” German Porcelain Clown SP2153, intaglio eyes to the side, top knot hair $135.00 3 ½” x 4 ½” Heubach white & brown bisque dog with mussel seated on top green planks with golden edges $139.95
White India #775, mint in box $110.00 Hawaii #722 1966, mint in box with booklet $300.00
8” Sandra Sue by Richwood 1956, with arched feet, dressed in pajamas $150.00
9 1/2” Dolly and her Dreses by McLoughlin Brothers, NY, 3 dolls and 9 fabulous costumes with matching bonnets, has box (as is) $125.00
4 ½” Made in England, Crown Devon label, glass eyed, porcelain blue green dog with yellow highlights, adorable #851W 101 $135.00
Madame Alexander Dolls: Greek Boy 1965 in box, all original with booklet “Friends from Foreign Lands” $395.00
10” 1962 Gibson Girl with gold Gibson Girl wrist tag, mint condition $425.00
9” Sweet Sybel of the Dainty Dollie Series #7 by Raphel Tuck & Sons 1890’s, doll has bent neck, 4 beautiful costumes, one holding doll, 4 bonnets, has box (as is) $95.00
Maria Ahrens “Lady in Leopard 1918, one of a kind 11 1/2” x 8 1/2”, wearing a faux fur leopard coat, gold jewelry and feather in hat, chair is satin with gold braid, fabulous details $2600.00 Now $1430.00
LOOkING FORWARD TO MeeTING yOU AT THe FOLLOWING SHOWS: Sunday, September 13 - Porter County Expo Center, Doll and Bear Show, Valparaiso, I ndiana Sunday, Sept. 20 - Triple Crown Doll Club Show, Receptions South, Erlanger, KY Sun., Sept. 27 - Doll & Bear Show, Ashton Place, Willowbrook, IL (Chicago suburb)
Skinner October 10 auction of Richard Wright’s personal collection of fine antique dolls, teddies, miniatures and toys by Catherine Saunders-Watson Important Portrait-type Carved Wood Doll, Germany, c. 1820, painted gesso over carved wood head, carved textured hair with two molded and carved large braids surrounding a large red and gilded removable carved wood hair comb, fully painted jointed body with swivel jointed waist, jointed elbows and finely carved hands including unusual left hand carving of index and thumb carved touching, long slender jointed legs with carved and painted blue slippers; wearing original dress underclothes and pantaloons, 39 in. Provenance: Mr. Wright is believed to have acquired this remarkable doll via private treaty sale at Sotheby’s London in the 1980s. Important German Wooden Doll with Wardrobe, c. 1790-1800, painted gesso over carved wood head, fully jointed body with mortise and tenon jointing at shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees, painted lower arms with finely carved hands, long slender legs with carved and painted lavender slippers with finely carved throat; includes period handmade items featuring black silk overcoat, red and black checked wool cape with matching bonnet, black wool skirt, three aprons, and two white cotton nightgowns, ht. 32 in.
“He was a man for all dolls, whether they were worth hundreds or thousands, but no matter what level of doll, he would buy the very best example.” Andy Ourant, consulting specialist to Skinner Inc.
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hose who knew the late Richard Wright remember him as a freespirited visionary who helped shape the international doll-collecting community as we know it today. His charismatic personality and unerring eye for quality made him a popular fixture at doll shows, conventions and other gatherings. But as famous as he was – even to mainstream America from his appraisal appearances on PBS Television’s Antiques Roadshow – Wright was still a collector at heart. And while relatively few had the privilege of visiting the lifelong collection of antique dolls displayed at his charming stone-and-beam country home in
Chester Springs, PA., there will soon be an opportunity for everyone to see and bid on the dolls that captured the eye, heart and soul of Richard Wright. On October 10, 2009, Skinner Inc. will auction Wright’s entire personal collection of dolls, teddy bears and miniatures at their spacious new gallery in Marlborough, Massachusetts, approximately 40 minutes west of Boston. A dream team has been working diligently over the summer to produce the event that will add the final chapter to Richard Wright’s legacy (Wright died on March 1, 2009). The sale’s three main architects are Skinner Vice President Stuart Whitehurst and
consulting specialists Becky and Andy Ourant. Both Stuart and Andy were Richard’s fellow Antiques Roadshow appraisers; the Ourants were Richard’s closest friends, and the natural choice to supervise the sale of his collections. Andy Ourant described Wright’s doll, toy and teddy collection as “very personal – a reflection of his own life and the profession he chose. Richard’s parents were antique dealers. He started collecting dolls as a boy, and his collection includes dolls he inherited from his mother’s collection as well as those he purchased for himself.” “Richard liked esoteric things, but he was also a sentimental guy. If he
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The Preeminent Artwork of Tynietoy I
Part II
n continuing the investigation of the artwork of Tynietoy from Part I, it bears repeating that there was a vast assortment of hand painted work that was applied to the products of the Tynietoy firm. Furthermore, this analysis additionally supports my previous article entitled “Tynietoy’s Elusive Cloth Dollhouse Dolls” in the April, 2008, issue of Antique Doll Collector, which documented the cloth dollhouse dolls whose faces were finely and delicately hand painted. By examining the hand decorated items, original documentation and published articles from the same time period when Tynietoy was in business, one can obtain a better comprehension of the history of this prolific company. As related in the Worcester Sunday Telegram article from 1938, discussed in Part I, the origins of Tynietoy began with one lady, Marion Perkins, hand crafting a miniature ladderback chair around 1916. Inspired by her first
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2. Four Tynietoy screens.
by Judith Armitstead
piece, she set up a small work shop in a loft with a leaky roof at the Handicraft Club. She was encouraged and then joined by Amey Vernon and together they built the business. This was a time when women were not expected to work, let alone direct a company. Since the painted Tynietoy furniture and accessories were done in colorful, and at times very bold enamels, it can be a challenge for today’s collector to arrange color schemes which look well together when decorating a house and not create a riot of colors. This can be successfully accomplished by mixing wood tone furniture with the more vibrantly painted ones or by keeping with similar or coordinating colors within a room. Tynietoy’s three-part screens exhibit an extensive assortment of styles, scenes and elements, quite possibly more than any other individual piece, as if the screen was an open canvas for creativity. Many screens had one complete scene spanning across the three panels while others had repeated floral or other patterns. Oriental-style themes with Chinese red or black backgrounds seem to be a favorite with Tynietoy. An example of artwork of a
screen by a Tynietoy artist is pictured here in Figure 1. The original is the actual size of the screen–with only the left and middle panels drawn–but the copy has been reduced in size to present here. The background, painted only on the left panel, is gold with a continuous design of a flowering tree with numerous yellow butterflies. Testing of colors can be seen in the space above and below. Four very different screens are pictured in Figure 2 to compare numerous painting styles. The first one on the left is very early, most likely around the 1920-21 period–separate orange (orange is rarely found on Tynietoy) enameled frames surround the three rectangular panels having a black background. Over this is painted a continuous subtle picture of a Japanese garden with a dark brown tree with peach blossoms and irises at bottom. The middle back screen has arched tops with a background painted Chinese red. The three panels depict another Japanese-style garden, each slightly different for they are hand executed, showing a swan swimming in a pond with an island connected by a bridge; the trimmed pine in the Japanese manner on the island is especially well represented. The screen on the right, also with arched top portions, is a very sensitive and well-painted composition executed in only two colors of gold and peach over a contrasting black background base–flamingoes at rest and flight among low golden trees and rolling hills. The nursery screens, with three short, rectangular panels, typically have illustrations of storybook characters or cute animals such as the one at front center in the illustration of a bunny in three poses with a blue background. The nursery screens matched the delightful pastel colored nursery furniture which was generally decorated with a tiny flower motif, which was discussed in Part I. To decorate the walls of their houses, Tynietoy created pictures with wooden frames to hang. An oval framed picture of a bouquet of flowers with a beige background is shown on the left in Figure 3–these were also made with black backgrounds. Silhouettes were a favored technique, borrowed from another era, as the courting couple shown in Figure 3 on the right with an unusual deep aqua enameled
3. Two Tynietoy hanging pictures.
4. Artwork sheet of silhouette profiles.
5. Artwork of Map of the Bermudas.
6. Artwork of Map of Nantucket.
frame. The majority of the silhouettes seen today were reprinted from original work, examples of which are shown from Tynietoy’s artwork sheet in Figure 4. This profile grouping had been so finely done that the personal facial characteristics of each person can be distinguished. The man on the upper left was not completed and had only been drawn with pencil whereas the other individuals had been finalized in ink. Handpainted portraits and scenes in oil are extremely rare and are greatly desired by collectors today. Reprinted hand-drawn maps to hang on walls were also produced. A drawing of a map executed in the 1920’s is presented here of “The Bermudas” in Figure 5. This particular 39
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Cardiff by the Sea, CA 92007 760-634-3518 Email: korney@cox.net 1 & 2. A most exquisite presentation box. Three lovely outfits and delightful accessories. Lovely HP bisque size 1 in wonderful original silk outfit. Please call. 3. A precious Kathe Kruse couple. The girl has a wonderful Du Mein face, 14 “ tall, $5,000. The darling boy is called Piet, 14”, $7,500. 4. Great A.T. Kestner in a lovely costume, boots are original to doll, 11”, $7,500. 5. Three early compo Vogue dolls – two with their Vogue stickers. Sailor $450, Army $450 and Nurse $350. 6. An exceptionally pretty Kestner closed mouth. Lovely mohair wig, beautiful antique costume, 22”, $3,200. 7. 20” Bru Belton, beautiful bisque and expression, a gorgeous doll, $3,800. 8. 25” “A” series Steiner, blue paperweight threaded eyes, a beauty, $6,500.
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Golden Connections
Dorothy Smith with her dolls, including “Goldie” on left, Christmas 1918. Goldie” in her look-a-like dress about 1920, long before the silk ribbon two-tiered skirt began to melt.
by Elizabeth Ann Coleman
Editor’s Note: For those of you who may be beginning your doll collecting journey, the author, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, her late sister and mother, Evelyn Jane Coleman and Dorothy Coleman, are known for their ground breaking research, most famously the “Coleman Encyclopedia of Dolls, Volumes I and II”. Veritable gold mines of information, these massive volumes remain as must have references in any doll library. In her article Ann tells how it all began.
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hile this is not the whole story perhaps you, the reader with an interest in dolls, will find these slivery pieces of one girl’s childhood of interest. The girl, Dorothy Elizabeth Smith, was born a century ago in Washington, DC. She was an only child in a middle class family who lived in a town house facing our National Zoo where the lions’ roars would nightly excite little Dorothy and her dolls to sleep. Over Dorothy’s childhood she would have a comprehensive family of dolls including bisque headed dolly faced and character dolls, Kewpies, a Schoenhut and a series of paper dolls both commercially printed and handmade. Thanks to an uncharacteristic purging of family artifacts by her mother, today only a few of Dorothy’s dolls remain, among them her favorite, “Goldie”. “Goldie” entered Dorothy’s life sometime in 1913 and an amazing paper and cloth trail survives to surround her. During Dorothy’s youth, year after year holiday season postcards would arrive and surviving ones assure little mother Dorothy that her beloved 18 inch “Goldie”, a Kammer & Reinhardt ball jointed composition doll with a dolly face bisque head made by Simon and Halbig would soon return to her care. While many people have boasted of going to a major city such as New York or Paris to acquire updates to their wardrobes, many dolls, including “Goldie” headed, just prior to the holiday season, to the North Pole and Santa’s workshop. “Goldie”, in her heyday, apparently had quite a stylish wardrobe, many of the outfits being copies of Dorothy own garments, which were kept in a trunk, now sadly gone. Dorothy remembered a gorgeous pink satin gown made for “Goldie” when the doll served as a Maid of Honor in the wedding of a close friend’s doll. The brown and cream check taffeta ribbon in the skirt of “Goldie’s one remaining, and obviously favorite, dress is now
One of a series of post cards sent at Christmas time by “Goldie” to her Little Mother, aka Dorothy, between circa 1916 and 1920. “Goldie” has gone to be with “Old Kris/Santa Claus for updates to her wardrobe.
Goldie today in her look-a-like dress with replaced skirt. Being a member of a family of savers her original skirt remains as evidence of her march through time. Her surviving wardrobe includes a commercially made rain coat, a black velvet beret, a slip with lace matching that on her dress, a corset with newly fashionable attached garters, a pair of drawers, lace cotton hose and heeled high button shoes of grey wool uppers matched to black “patent leather”. On her wrist she wears another newish fashion item: a wrist watch. 45