Under the great blue calico bonnet this doll has a worn and wrinkle face with a pencil dot for eyes and a pencil line for a mouth. Her nose has gone flat but the bonnet makes her look adorable. She is a homemade beauty, she sits like she has done yoga all her life. Her blue calico dress is voluminous and hides her rather average size body. She can almost do a split her legs go so far apart. She had a slip and undies under her dress and has black socks and brown shoes on...
This plain and simple stocking doll with great old button eyes and probably original stocking cap. He feels like he is stuffed with soft stocking material. He has fancy blue and maroon yarn tied around his ankles that probably matched his clothes. Simplistic pleasure. He is 14 tall and has a few small holes. He is circa 1910-20
This nice antique cloth doll has the eighteen hundreds straight red embroidered line for a mouth that allows her to have many or no emotions. She has two dots for a nose but the mother went the extra length to put stuffing under to give her a raised nose. She has really nicely embroidered eyes with little stitched eyelashes on the top lids. She has astrakhan trim hair that is firmly stitched on. She has jointed arms and the knees are stitched to bend so she sits easily...
Baby is a big heavy plump doll, all original body and painted face. She has on a dress that fits perfectly but probably isn't original. Her face is worn a little but no damage, maybe it has darkened with age?
I think she is the best baby. Nice defined fingers and separate thumbs. She has lost a lot of stuffing in her arms, I don't know how, and her legs have black stockings sewn on but everything feels right and original
She is 20" tall and circa 1880
This nice little girl from next door would always play nice, share her dolls and offer you cookies and milk. She has watercolor hair, ink draw drawn face, cute little curvy body. She has been played with a lot and it shows on her feet and her hands. One side of her face is a little faded. Her great calico dress has fading on the front but still looks and fits her well. She is 14" tall and circa 1890-1910.
And I believe her! She is a no nonsense doll, stern but not mean. At 27" she sits and stands tall, her body is strong and firm and her head is upright. She is fully jointed and has fingers and thumbs. Her hands are unique, the maker sewed the outline of the fingers with the two pieces of cloth face out and then cut around the outside so there is a raw cut that is a bit messy looking but it worked. Certainly much easier that sewing on the wrong side pushing the fingers out...
The rare antique French Bebe bonnet would fit for around 9" to 10" ( 23-25 cm ) dolls head circumference and has generally excellent condition to age.
This delicate bonnet is rigidly shaped from wire framework hidden inside the top and at sides and brim.
T lovely bonnet cap is of light rose silk fulled with ruched decoration rows.The brim is ornate with matching silk pleated row , has small lace edged ...
Here is a very nice all original wooden doll that is 15" tall. She has a great painted face, jointed arms and legs, original clothes I think but at least they were made for her and they are early. Under her dress she has a wool petticoat and the a cotton one and then another cotton one and the pantaloons. She is wearing a matching bonnet. Condition is great...
Of 17" x 11" ( 44 x 29 cm) luxury presence French Boudoir toilette table for Poupee or small Bebe .
A perfect furniture for your dolls salon.
Feminine toilette table covered with fine light blue cotton with tiny print of rose buds , edged ornate with silk cording and accented with embroidered lace . Middle framed mirror with bow decoration as final upper accents . Fine lace canopy at back ...
A lower part fabric covered matching to the table top ...
Superb rare 1860th. silk enfantine gown attribute by Mlle. Bereux with typical fine details of this sewing artist for Huret !
It´s all hand sewn of a three piece costume for size 4 Poupee by Huret or other early or other early fashion doll from arround 1860th !
Pretty three piece gown of very delicate light brown with blue edged enfantine style skirt with matching jacket , blouse and bonnet...
This is a great cloth doll with watercolor/ink painted face done with a lot of detail including the line drawn hair that I am very fond of. She is all hand sewn, rag stuffed and is heavy for her size. Her clothes are nice but not original to her. She is 21" tall, sits nicely and has the best blue eyes and pink cheeks. She has on a tan and light brown calico dress with a blue check apron over it, both are hand sewn. She was made circa 1890.
A wonderful plain and simple antique black doll doorstop. This one is smaller than most and is made with a weighted can rather than a bottle. She is 10" tall and is just the right size to sit on a shelf or be used as a bookend. I like it when the stocking shows nice wear on the bottom and this one really does. See photo. She is great folk art! Circa 1920
Surprisingly this is and always has been a bottle doll door stop. She is beautifully dressed with layers of clothes. She has flax hair, and ink drawn face with a bit of a startled look. She has on a black hat with great posies across the front. I have had a few white doll doorstops but this is by far the best. She is 15" tall and is circa 1890.
Rare to find all original antique Poupee hanky set from France circa 1860 for one of your early
Fashion dolls like Huret , Rohmer or other !
A set of two hanky ... one of white cotton with red embroidered N and the second for the evening gown of silk netting with lace deged.
2,5" x 2,5" ( 7 x 7 cm ) cotton hanky and the other about 2,5" ( 7 cm ) diameter.
Both preserved in his hanky box with litho picture decoration ...
This is a very nice 19th C. black cloth doll with strong embroidered face. She is as found and is wearing an antique plaid dress that is all hand sewn, with a very fine wool petticoat under it and knit bloomers. Her body is stockinette that is over black cotton lining and she is firmly stuffed with cotton. Her arms and legs and knees are jointed. Her condition shows wear on some of the stockinette and her face has little picky holes that have been sort of mended, see picture...
Rare Maison Jumeau factory original size 6 French Tete Bebe about 15" ( 38 cm ) , exceptional rare to find all original condition and wearing superb couture silk costume by Ernestine Jumeau included her complete undergarments and bonnet. All mark inside with size number six ....
This cloth doll is 8", has continuous arms and legs, is firmly stuffed with cotton, her face has bead eyes and nose and a floss sewn mouth. Under the little plaid dress is a white petticoat. The hair on her head is fur and the shoes are little leather homemade wonders. She is petite and adorable. C. 1890
Condition, she has two little weak spots that the stuffing shows through on her chin.
Produced only over two or three years rare all original bisque Bebe by Maison Emile Jumeau ... France circa 1885 !! A Jumeau model from the slow transition between pressed and poured bisque at this times.
An outstanding beauty with finest sculpting and rare face expression , best quality of cream bisque and dramatic painting , perfectly preserved all original condition included her fantastic couture outfit by Maison Jumeau and her store box !
Gorgeous 22" ( 56 cm ) dol...
I don't have many left from the earliest days of buying in the 1970's but this is one of them. He is a happy little guy made with a stockinette sort of fabric. His face is nicely embroidered with a fine floss and what looks like hundreds of stitches to make his eyes and teeth. His hair is animal pelts, lots of small pieces sewn onto his head with lots of stitches holding it on. You can see the leather back in lots of places, I think that was the way it was sewn on. He is as found. His pants are ...
What was the mother thinking when she sewed the face of this big wonderful rag stuffed doll. I think she had the cloth in her lap and stitched away on the face with it sideways on her lap. It does look a little straighter when she is sideways. Well you can't have her displayed on her side so her face is what it is, sweet and a little outrageous. The stitching is lovely and the colors are soft, her smile is engaging. She has never had hair. Her body is curvy with smaller waist and quite wide hips...
So perky and bright with big round eyes and a smile to melt the heart, they don't come like this often. She has embroidered features including her eyes but then to embellish them further they added a bead in the middles and curtain rod rings to make the eyes complete. She has red dots for a nose and a big embroidered mouth with white teeth the whole length. Her wool yarn hair is is artfully sewn to her head in a zigzag pattern. I love how her head is squared off at the top. She is as found and c...
This antique handsewn doll has the early sloped shoulders, with carefully pieced construction, finely embroidered face with pinched raised nose, detailed lips, eyes and eyebrows. Her body is the hourglass shape, her legs are continuous and even though she is not jointed, she sits easily. She has great astrakhan hair. She is cotton stuffed rather firmly, has sewn on socks and rounded off hands. She is wearing a skirt and blouse, petticoat and bloomers all antique but not original, just nice. The ...
Excellent condition Huret size and era dark brown leather ankle boots from France around 1860 th.
Would fit nicely for your early Poupee like Rohmer , Barrois , Huret and other lovely doll about size 4 about 16" / 17" ( 43 - 44 cm )
Made of brown leather with original elastic sides . Has original wooden heels and pale brown leather soles .
Leather edged covered with brown silk and ornate with her original silk tassel.
Rare and great condition all original heeled...
Lovely old cloth doll stuffed with rags, really solid and heavy in possibly an original dress. She is completely jointed, nicely constructed, old petticoat and pantaloons. She has dainty pointed feet, stitched defined thumb and fingers and the back of her head is covered with brown fabric that also looks original. Her face is embroiderer nicely with brown floss and you can tell she was made by a happy person. 23" tall and C.1890
This fine antique cloth doll all hand-sewn with a delicately embroidered face, pinched nose, and rosy cheeks have an air of sophistication. She has on a two-piece soft blue-green wool dress, faded some in the front, with antique petticoat and pantaloons, sock, and leather shoes.
Her hair is a black silk fabric with some shredding and a bun at the back of her neck. She is constructed with very fine linen and is stuffed quite firmly with raw wool. This is a very special doll. 21" and C. 1880
There are so many ways that women thought up on how to make a doll and give them the loveable look. This black cloth doll has that as well as a great folky look. She is stuffed with cotton and wool. She is bendable, the wool areas, and firm in the chest and head, the cotton areas. She has a simple face and it is framed by a crocheted bonnet with neck ruffle so I know it was made just for her. She has on a simple blue calico dress with a wool petticoat and bloomers underneath. She is 17" tall and...
This very early little doll is made with wool batten, (sed as filler in homemade quilts). Probably a scrap left over and in the rag bag. Her body, arms and legs are batten, and her head is sewn linen over a ball of wool batten. Her eyes are tiny beads held on with thread and her nose is raised and stitch defined. Her mouth is 3 stitches with a hint of pink color. She is wearing a real homespun linen dress, red, white and light brown plaid, not fancy but hand sewn. She has on a ribbed fabric lon...
Very beautiful water color silk poupee gown with blouse .... fit perfect for on early poupee like Rohmer , Blampoix ...or similar fashion doll about circa 15" / 16" ( 38 - 40 cm )
Pretty two piece Enfantin style silk gown of skirt and blouse all hand sewn from France around 1865 .
Beautiful enfantine skirt of light blue and ecru water color silk has woven flowers . Has fitted waist with wide waistband having diamond point center , trimmed with small black lace and lovely bow...
This sweet little antique cloth doll is wearing black calico dress that might be original it fits her so well. She has embroidered eyes and a hint that she had an embroidered nose and probably a mouth. She has the great astrakhan hair that says she was made around 1890 and the dress is that era too. She has jointed arms and legs, is stuffed with cotton sort of medium firm. She is a very nice old but nicely cared for antique cloth doll. 10" tall.
Rare original French Bisque Portrait Poupee by " Pierre Francois Jumeau " , one of the luxury " portrait " model " was introduced at the 1870 / 72 Paris international Exposition .
A superb fashion doll which has so beautiful face with gentle expression and dramatic almond shaped eyes, fine and best quality of sculpting on pale bisque and painting , wearing wonderful poupee silk gown !!!!!
About 22 " ( 56 cm ) Mademoiselle with finest quality of pale bisque swivel head on ...
Rare to find 11,5" ( 29 cm ) Premier bisque Bebe attributed by Mascotte . It is certain that this premier dolls was manufactured by Maison Jumeau for May Freres the publisher of the Mascotte Bebe.
Gentle facial expression bisque Bebe Mascotte has pale creamy bisque and lovely painting with delicate complexion of an early French Bebe with rare shy expression , original body and nicely costume !
She has best quality of pale bisque socket head with full cheeks and beautiful...
This lovely antique black cloth doll with a simple pencil face is stuffed with rags. I can't remember ever having another black doll with a pencil face. Usually the material is too dark for a pencil face to show. Her body is all original and hand sewn. Her clothes are as found when I bought her. Her top is a knit long john shirt made for a very young child and her skirt is a wonderful antique skirt in soft shades of brown and blue and yellow and green. She is in very good condition with just we...
This little stockinette black doll is hand sewn and straight forward. She has nice mitten hands with thumbs, nicely shaped feet, is stuffed with cotton and is a mini work of art. Her head is turned to the side a little and I think it is intentional. The embroidered face is sewn with a really skilled hand in the tiniest of stitches. She has on a make-do dress that is a red calico print apron. Looks good from the front but a little WO! WO! from the back. She is 14" tall, circa 1900 and a really n...
This is an amazing home made black boy doll with the sweetest face, the best posture and corn cob legs. He feels like he has a solid wood inner core. I bet the maker of this boy was pleased as punch to find a good use for a couple of old corn cobs. His face is finely embroidered and has a contoured brow and cheeks, a raised nose, jet bead eyes, embroidered eyebrows, whites of eyes, nose and mouth with teeth. He has raveled yarn hair that is wonderful and it really suits him. His hands are stit...
This is a wonderful folk art bottle doll with a big straight smiling mouth, button eyes and one celluloid hanging earring. She is wearing a slip and over that a great black print apron that wraps under and around her head and ties in the back. It certainly is a thrown together look that appears to have been on her a long time. The apron so goes with her face. A one of a kind face for sure. She is on her original weighted glass bottle, is 14" tall and is circa 1920.
This beautifully hand carved granny dressed for a party is irresistible. She is all wood, spoon shaped hands, long skinny legs with just a little bit of shape and a face that you know you have seen before, sitting on the cabin porch. She is all original, is i10 1/2" and I think was made around 1900. She sits easily and he arms move nicely, and her condition is really good, her hair do and glasses are the finishing touches. IF you keep her a while I am sure she has a lot of opinions she will shar...
Maybe you are like a lot of women, some days you wake up and feel pretty good then you look in the mirror and say, boy looks like I could use another 8 or 10 hours of sleep. Well this doll doesn't have to worry about that. She can be as beautiful or as rough around the edges as the day produces and we are never going to know it. We will remember her soft and flowing antique blouse and skirt. We will remember the great antique blue and brown velvet hat that looks so good on her but we won't form ...
What do you think, I think she was maybe made with big round eye glasses for an adorable little girl who had glasses just like these? Not only does she wear glasses but this is a second face under this one. I am not even tempted to peek, this one is so great. She also has a replaced arm that has leather below the elbow. She is firmly packed with rags, her arms are jointed and her legs are continuous and she can do a forced sit. Her dress is antique but not original, under her dress she is wearin...
This 1880 cloth doll has a very nicely drawn ink face with strong features softened by time. Her lips have a trace of red with a hint of a smile, her eyes are big and brown and her nose and eyebrows are a gray black this all adds up to a very kindly looking face. The black hat covers a trauma to her head and to her right ear. The rest of her face is not fragile so I think it was a blow to the head and ear not a breakdown of fabric. Her body has lots of covering and it is hard to figure out what ...
Not all black dolls have black bodies. Some of the best dolls I have had were dolls that the maker took an old rag doll and gave the doll a black head. In the Jim Crow era, it became common in the north for mothers to teach their children about the plight of African Americans, by making a black doll for them. So mothers even ones that were not really skilled at sewing were making black dolls. Putting a black covering over a rag doll was one of the easiest ways. This is one of those dolls black h...
What a stunning and rare doll she is ..... an very beautiful early period Bebe by Maison Jumeau size 2 ( 10,5 " / 27 cm ) ... one of the earliest Bebe with delicate pale pressed bisque with rich spiral threading almond shaped eyes and beautifully painted features , original fur wig and body finish , wearing superb original couture costume by Ernestine Jumeau with matching bonnet .
Very rare small size Bebe with finest quality of pressed bisque socked head of pale quality with beau...
Rare French 19" ( 49 cm ) poupee by Pierre-Francois Jumeau circa 1865 , a portrait like model which was likely created for Paris exhibition for international exposition !
A very rare model with special luxury and elegant appearance , superb gentle facial expression with superb quality of sculpting ... bisque quality and painting .
Wonderful pale bisque swivel portrait head on kid-edged bisque shoulder plate . Has perfectly oval shaped oval shaped face with beautiful small b...
Here are two very nice paper doll dresses made with crepe paper and Dresden paper lace trim from the 1840's The 7" dress is exquisite with watercolor hand painted floral decoration. This dress has a partial unbleached paper backing that is all original. It has a slightly irregular hemline and a dark spot just above the hemline.
The smaller dress is 3 1/2" and has Dresden stars across the bodice. It has a paper back that is two fold to go over the paper dolls head. These two were in the same l...
From the same time era of Huret ...... an early fashion doll from circa 1858 / 60 with very gentle expression of round facial features , has luxury body with exquisitely sculpted bisque hands , very beautiful face whose pale bisque is dramatized by her brilliant eyes . Has lovely skin wig and very beautiful wearing enfantin costume with crinoline !!!!
Pretty 18" ( 46 cm ) poupee comes from the same time era like an Huret poupee and is an rare found with her lovely facial expressio...
Such a sweet heart with a very dainty stitched face in red and yellow thread. For such an early face it is a surprise to see that there is another one under this face. I would never remove it but it for some reason got recovered. Reminds me of a Christmas morning when I got just what I wanted, a Little LULU doll and was so thrilled. I was 8 years old, put her in my bicycle basket and rode my bike to show my best friend up the street. It was a warm NE Christmas, I hit a bump and Little Lulu ended...
This nice early little rag stuffed doll has an ink/pencil drawn face with a faint wavy hairline across the top of her forehead. Her body is all original and she is firmly stuffed with rags. Her outfit is age appropriate and I have lost her tag so I don't know about her clothes but they are age appropriate, I did add her hat. She is fully jointed and sits nicely. With a petite little body this wonderful little doll can fit almost anywhere. She is C.1880 and is 14" tall.
This doll has an oil painted face on fine linen cloth. Her face is lovely but her eyes are just looking over my head. I think she is lost in thought. Her body is shapely and she is stuffed firmly. Her arms and legs and jointed and she is all handsewn. She has mitten hands with lots of wear and black stockings with leather shoes that look original to her. She has on a petticoat and a brown checked dress that is early but not original. The sleeves are a little short.
She is 15" tall, has long yel...
Just when I think I have seen it all along comes something different. This doll has a bottle for a body that has the shape of a flask. The bottle and her arms are a heavy twill with the arms having lots of mends. She has sock legs and a sewn on bonnet and embroidered face. She has been through a lot but she is very dear. I have had bottle doll doorstops but never a doll with a bottle body! She is 16" tall and is a real hoot. Circa 1900
This cloth doll is reminiscent of the old days, 1970-80s, when I saw and bought a lot of faceless dolls and they were not all Amish. I think faces were not as important to all children or mothers as we may think they are nowadays. Her sweet little body is shapely, with jointed arms and legs. Her underclothes are sewn on her but she is all original. Her hands are slipcovered and held on with string in mitten form, must have been that the hands got really dirty. This is an old fashioned faceless c...
And yet I don't think she has a clue. She is just quiet and takes it all in. We all could use a friend like that. She has an embroidered face that is nothing short of great. She has hair that looks really real and yet I don't know what it is, maybe mohair? She has on an undershirt, and white dress with a blue calico skirt. She is firmly stuffed with cotton and is jointed at the shoulders and hips. She is in really good condition with just one foot that has a repair and a split at her ankle. She ...
Wonderfully preserved French Poupee by Jumeau with very sturdy original body , superb bisque and painting with superbb facial expression , wearing
lovely silk afternoon gown .All complete generally excellent and ready to dislay and enjoy
18" ( 46 cm ) fashion doll with lovely bisque swivel head on kid-edged bisque shoulder plate of pale quality and stunning facial expression .
She has almond shaped blue glass enamel eyes like the lovely portrait poupees from Jumeau , dark...
She is firmly packed with rags and cotton, how can I tell, she is very heavy and doesn't give much when you squeeze her. Rags are dense and heavy, cotton is lighter and can be pushed more easily into small places like arm and legs and feet and gives more when compressed. She has a great pencil face with eyes way at the top of her face. She is old and played with and her dress reflects all of that, see pictures for shredding material. Her body is all original and her dress is old and came with he...
Most beautiful rare all original 4 " ( 11 cm ) early all wooden Grodnertal Doll in her original condition from around 1830th. century.
Wearing in her original pink dress and included her lovely metal day bed .
Rare and so nice all wood doll with oval shaped head . Having one piece head and torso with original nice painting of facial features with beautifully blushed cheeks . Has black hair with carved braids at each side and a nice node at back .
Lovely wooden body ...
Superb French poupee bonnet in the Huret manner from France circa 1868 / 70....
Stiffened gauze bonnet fully ornate with lovely narrow bands of hand woven blue silk and streamers at back below.
Ornate at the head front with nice little matching color flowers .
A very nice fancy bonnet for your early poupee , suitable for a size 3 or 4 fashion doll.
Has head circumference about ... circa 7,5" / 19 cm
Has generally excellent condition and a beautiful...
A 19th C. bisque head cloth body doll that is a squeak toy. I have never had one before. The squeak of course does not work, how many times do you suppose it squeaked before it stopped and the child was devastated the mother was thrilled. She has her original dress and then early blue calico apron and bonnet. Her face is bisque and she has blue glass eyes that are almost startling. She has a cloth body with a thin piece of wood that is about 1" by 2" inside here that was the squeaker. It still p...
A lovely Twentieth Century Hand Made Textile Possibly Near East, or Palestine ..Framed 31”x32” Berlin Estate
Very rare found of early heeled leather shoes from around 1862/65 by Thierry ... a doll shoe maker how works special for Huret but also for other luxury doll shops in Paris at this time !
Extremely rare small size 2 all original heeled poupee shoes of fine lambskin , each are banded with brown silk around edging and ornate with nice silk rosette at shoe tip.
Original heel and have typical kid-leather soles inside mark with " T " for Thierry .
Perfect for an earl...
Stunning French bisque Emile Jumeau Bebe in lovely cabinet size 7 by Maison Jumeau , Paris around 1878 / 80 ......
A wonderful early period Bebe with rich eye decoration , has fine creamy pale bisque with lovely painting on deep modeling , original wig and wooden eight-loose-ball-jointed body , wearing most beautiful antique clothing ....possible original !!
16" ( 41 cm ) Bebe with pale pressed bisque socket head of best bisque quality , beautiful amber brown enamel glas...
The construction and the hand sewing on this doll is amazing. The hands and feet have stitch defined fingers and toes. The features are drawn with watercolor paint. Her nose is a raised pinched nose and for that type of nose this is the best one I have seen. Her hair maybe be real or horse hair but it is lovely and hand sewn in place and then a someone has saved it with a very fine hair net around the bottom. She has got a little sweet turned down mouth that is a more set look and sad. I think s...
This lovely painted face cloth doll has a shyness about her. Her eyes are really well painted and kind of talk to you. She has a very nice hand sewn body. Her face is framed with painted brownish red curls. She is all original including the paint on her face. She does have some thinning of the paint and a little loss but nothing serious. The back of her head is another story. I don't know what caused the back of the head to lose some of the outer painted cloth but there are two or three other l...
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