Lot: 117.10. Group of Grodnertal Wooden Dolls
3"-11" (7 and 28 cm.) Each is all-wooden doll with one piece head and torso,painted facial complexion and black hair in various styles,painted facial features,dowel-jointed wooden body with painted shoes except costumed doll designed for use as pen wiper so without legs. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Grodnertal,circa 1840. Value Points: interesting assortment of varieties including model with red sculpted hair,another with long curls in front of each ear,the largest with original handmade undergarments.
Realized Price: 2000
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Catalogued Auction Lots
117.10. Group of Grodnertal Wooden Dolls
118. American Wooden Boy,Model 300,by Schoenhut
119. Three Schoenhut Wooden Animals
120. American Wooden Schoenhut Girl,102,with Carved Hair
121. Five German Bisque Miniature Dolls with Different Sculpted Hair Styles
122. German Bisque Miniature Doll with Modeled Hat
123. German Bisque Dollhouse Lady in Original Costume
124. German Bisque Lady with Blonde Sculpted Hair and Blue Glass Eyes
125. German Bisque Lady with Blonde Sculpted Hair and Hair Bow
126. German Bisque Doll with Twill-over Wooden Body by Simon and Halbig