Folky hand made antique paper doll dresses about 6" tall. (They didn't come with a doll.) They are made with fancy paper and glue. I show the backs of the dresses and the fronts. There are four dresses, two jackets, one hat and one apron. They are the last quarter of the 1800's. I there are two dress that have partial tears on a arm. They are from the last quarter of the 1800's. Condition is used and scuffed and played with.
She can get better, she has a provenance that came with her, as follows.....
Pretty one of a kind three piece dress for a French or German BeBe circa 24" / 25" ( 62 - 64 cm ).... wonderful for Jumeau - Bru - Steiner - Gaultier ....or other of your favorite doll´s.
Pretty outfit from ecru silk with tiny corn flowers patter , lovely blue sil trim and French lace .
Wonderful three piece costume has long side bustle jacket with small inset sleeves and pleated blue silk row around edged...
This great little doll is made with stockinette and stuffed with cotton. She has a wonderful face with big button eyes and big pinched nose and smiling face. She ha a mohair type of fabric that works really well for her salt and pepper hair. Her clothes are sewn on so I thing she is all original. It is endless the variety of doll and how the are made, the features they are given, it never ceases to amaze me. She is 13" tall and is circa 1920.
Isn't he just great! He has on original clothes, maybe the jacket was added, and in a crazy way his flowery print combo suits him. Under his jacket, both his pants and his corduroy vest are sewn on. He is cotton stuffed and very soft and floppy, so leaning against another doll or sitting in a chair helps display him.
He is in very condition with just a bit of a ragged hem on the bottom of one pant leg. Framing his face he has a blond fur strip representing hair...
With a little homespun linen top over a red hand sewn cotton dress, this sweet late 1800's doll is in very nice condition. Her body is all original and stuffed with cotton and rags making her quite heavy. She sits easily and holds her round bald head upright with hardly a bauble. Her face is very carefully hand sewn with a protruding pinched nose, embroidered and applied eyes and a smiling mouth with lots of teeth. She is 19" tall and C. 1890-1900
A special beautiful Fashion doll bonnet which would fit so nice to your Huret , Rohmer , Blampoix or other early and pretty Fashion doll in your collection !!
All hand made black and ecru lace bonnet with lovely purple details , of black cap with pretty long lose lace ribbons and fine trim ...
This dynamic painted face black stockinette doll is a sturdy as you get. She has a solidly packed rag body and head that is really heavy. Under the black stockinette body, her body is covered old blue and white ticking as well as her attached arms and legs. Her hair is two tone crocheted string and yarn. I have never seen this technique before but it is very effective. Her dress fits the top of her so tightly I don't think I can get it off without tearing it...
Pretty and elegant French antique silk costume with matching bonnet... fit well for Jumeau , Bru , Steiner , Gaultier , or other pretty French or German size 12 doll´s about around 25" ( 65 cm )
Most hand sewn of rare to find blue silk satin and velvet from around 1880th. century ......
This is a very interesting doll. Her body and head are one piece of solid wood, with a hole straight through the shoulder from side to side with arms pushed in an anchored on either side. The legs, I am not sure how they are attached and the pants over her legs are sewn on and have been for a long time, see stains from the wood on the white tightly woven pants, they feel very secure. She has on a period dress that I think I put on her a long time ago with the apron over it...
Very beautiful all original antique silk bonnet for French Bebe or German doll . Has all original condition included his hat box from France at 19th...
From an old French collection we can offer a most beautiful near mint condition Polichinelle with his accessory in presentation from 19th. century
A Polichinelle was very popularity in France until after the end of 19th. century and it was the most used symbol on publicity poster or Department Store and luxury Doll Store catalogs in Paris !! They was to find in different sizes and styles but always wearing very lavish and special .........
This is a great black doll 22” tall, firmly stuffed with cotton, jointed arms and legs but the arms do not bend a lot. She has an embroidered face with tiny stitches and great round eyes. She has brown material for hair that has lost the pile so it is just material. Her hands both are mostly missing stuffing but a good portion of the material is still there. She has big long feet. Her dress is wonderful and has been on her for a very long time as are the underclothing...
17" ( 43 cm ) cabinet size pretty bisque girl has very good quality of pale bisque socket head with beautiful large deep blue glass sleep eyes with dark eyeliner and bottom painted lashes.
Has modeled brush-stroked and feathered brows and
open mouth with outlined lips and row of porcelain teeth , pierced ears and wonderful original brunette long wig.
Head mark at back with ; DEP and red Tete Jumeau stamp.
Made for the French market by Maison Jumeau .....
This highly desirable bisque headed doll was made by the famed German doll making firm JD Kestner. It is model 171 which came in several sizes, of which we believe this is the largest, made c. 1900. Although I measure it nearly 30 inches, some give its height as 28-30 inches...
This very nice hand-carved wooden doll and some original paint on the face and shoulders. She has a very round head, deep-set eyes and a nose carved and protruding but still out of the one piece of wood. Her legs were inset and pegged in place. Now she is a wonderful fragment 10" tall and mounted on a professional frame. (There are a few very old worm holes, please see close-up picture.) Circa 1800-1830.
Very nice light green silk dress for your cabinet size French or German doll about around
13" / 14" ( 34 - 36 cm ) from later 19th. century .
Most hand sewn of light green silk with nice front decoration of row of ruffled silk and
very nice color full flowers trim .
Has lovely skirt of three ruffled silk rows , long sleeves and a nice matching color silk belt with ecru ribbons and middle brooch. A beautiful flowers circle ornate the skirt front!
The dress has back closure...
Painted face black cloth doll ready for cooking the main meal of the day. She has a painted face, a bandana covering her head, red calico dress, black undies, and sewn on black boots. Covering the dress is a great old apron that is as soft a butter. When I squeeze her legs and body, they are really quite firm and feel like the are a mixture of cotton and something crunchy. She is really a down home girl, with fine looks and lives on the straight and narrow path that her life has taken her. She h...
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...
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 !
A most beautiful early doll with best quality of pale bisque socket head , has full cheeks and beautiful brown glass paperweight inset eyes . Dark eyeliner and painted curly lashes , brush stroked brows and closed mouth with shaded and accented lips , deep dimple lip corners and chin...
Luxury rare to find early French all wood body Poupee by "Anquelle" .... " Albert Frederice & Marie Victoire " from France at 1865 with rare body style and most beautiful different facial expression , wearing antique enfantine costume.
This rare dolls was only sold in luxury Paris doll boutiques which was specialized in Fashion Dolls like " Lavallee-Peronne , Simonne and other .... "
She comes from the " Huret" era of 1865th, and is on amazing and elegant 18" ( 46 cm ) ...
This early topsy turvy doll very nice appeal to those that like dolls with love patina. Both faces have raised noses and some wear with more on the white side than the black side. The black doll has a window pane red fabric that is a tomato red with yellow lines and the white side has a wonderful blue fabric with white stars. She has had lots of hours of play and the aging from it is just the best. She displays well a single doll with white of black side. There is a tear in the top of the red f...
A very folky early rag doll with pencil face and a touch of blue in her eyes. Every thing is sewn on her and I do believe it has been that way a long time if not original. She has a little square head and no neck and straight across shoulders and short little arms, just the cutest! She has wide hips and hinged arms and legs. Her head is a little floppy front to back but a ribbon tied around her neck I think would remedy that. She is stuffed with cotton and rags and is quite heavy. Her blue ca...
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...
Most beautiful rare all original 4 " ( 11 cm ) early all wooden Grodnertal Doll in her original condition from around 1830th. century , wearing wonderful clothing and her original earrings !
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 . Black hair with carved braids at each side and a nice node at back and so rare with her original earrings !!
Has her lovely w...
Breathtaking French bisque Poupee from luxury Paris Doll Boutique " Au Paradis des Enfant "..... circa 1868 / 70..... has very pretty quality of bisque and painting on unusual facial smiling expression accented by gorgeous blue eyes and dramatic painting of eyeliner and lashes.
18 " ( 44 cm ) size 4 poupee with best quality of bisque swivel head on kid-lined bisque shoulder plate , original poupee kid body with shop mark , possible original gorgeous silk costume with bonnet and or...
A black stockinette doll with a great face and gray astrakhan hair. She is a single layer stockinette (stocking) doll when most often they are doubled layer as the maker realizes the white cotton showing through the one layer is not really black anymore but gray. This was cleverly handled by making her hair gray also. She is big and has a chunky body firmly stuffed. Her arms and legs are jointed so she sits easily. She has mitten hands with one that goes at a rakish tilt but her sweet face says ...
Rare found of small size 4 Jumeau Bebe with good quality of pale bisque and painting , heart melting expression , original wig and body , wearing superbly original pique costume.
Very sweet little girl has generally excellent condition about 13" ( 33 cm ) by Maison Jumeau with bisque socket head of pale and best quality . Stunning brown paperweight inset eyes with dark eyeliner and fine painted lashes and feathered brows. Closed mouth with defined space between here shaded and ou...
This is a most unusual very appealing small doll very much the young lady, with a center seam face, applied ears and sewn on pelt hair. (Please look at the picture of the hair, I think it is deer pelt and is fashioned to look like arranged hair.) She has a drawn face with bead eyes. She is wearing a brown printed dress all hand sewn with a pocket on one side. She has on pantaloons, a slip, a petticoat, black socks and very worn leather doll shoes that are as early as she is. She is wearing the b...
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...
I don't see many pairs of dolls and boys dolls I don't think I have had another pair. The older Daryl looks like he is in control and rather sweet, younger Daryl has apparently gotten the short end of the stick. He is sad. They make a very nice pair and are all original with a few missing pieces. I think they both had belts. They have bold embroidered faces and have gray yarn hair. They are firmly stuffed with cotton, are jointed shoulders and hips, have stitched defined fingers with separate th...
Rare to find and very beautiful late 19th. century French miniature piano with luxury hand painted cupid romantic scenes all around , a perfect display piece for small Bebe ,Fashion doll or larger Mignonette.
Around 12,5" ( 32 cm )at longest point bronze framed piano with rich gold finish and elaborate front and sides panel . It has metal sides that are richly hand painted with very beautiful romantic scenes of dainty floral and garlands ,has bows and angels and lovely Rococo coup...
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 is a homemade Raggedy Andy in his original. He is in good shape but his clothes have some holes and rips, and stains but nothing that is falling off. He has some stains that comes with his job. He is 16" tall but is a small doll, his head measures just a little over 3" across. His pants are a sturdy blue felt, and his cotton striped pinky/orange shirt a few tears on one sleeve. He is a little wonderful creature. C. 1920
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 ...
From circa 1880 a most beautiful wicker country cart with carved wooden horse for your French poupee or small Bebe display about 26" x 13,5" ( 66 x 34 cm ) displayed with my 16" fashion doll which are not included in this offer
A carved wooden horse bin trotting position with upright head is full covered with worn horsehair and has fine carved details with inset glass eyes , nostrils , mouth and leather ears. Plump body with carved legs ... two with small repair and carved hoove...
