4" (10 cm.) One-piece bisque head and torso, sculpted military helmet over blonde hair, painted facial features with sculpted moustache, jointing of arms and legs, painted black boots. Condition: generally excellent, small flake at helmet. Comments: Germany, circa 1890. Value Points: rare helmet, moustache, and wearing factory original costume.
Presale Estimate:
300/400
Realized Price:
$350
15" (38 cm.) Bisque socket head, small brown glass sleep eyes, painted lashes, short feathered brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with downcast pouting expression, chubby cheeks, brunette human hair bobbed wig, composition and wooden ball-jointed toddler body with side-hip jointing. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: K*R Simon & Halbig 115/A 38. Comments: Kammer and Reinhardt, circa 1912, the model is known as "Phillip". Value Points: wistful faced character with fine luminous bisque, original body and body finish, wearing woolen costume, with tin lithographed horn, leather valise, and metal military helmet.
Presale Estimate:
1600/2200
Realized Price:
$1,600
18" (46 cm.) Solid domed paper mache shoulderhead, painted black pate, black enamel eyes, delicately-painted lashes and brows, closed mouth, brunette hand-tied human hair wig in long braids, muslin stitch-jointed body. Condition: generally excellent, some light craquelure on shoulderplate. Comments: Germany, circa 1840. Value Points: early glass-eyed lady with prideful pose, has original wig and is wearing her original folklore costume including bead embroidered vest and ribbon-tied pearls.
Presale Estimate:
900/1200
Realized Price:
$850
20" (51 cm.) Paper mache shoulderhead, sculpted short black curly hair with painted details around the face, painted brown eyes, lightly-outlined eyes, accented nostrils, closed mouth, muslin stitch-jointed body, leather arms, wearing black woolen suit with silk shirt and black velvet bow, saddle shoes. Condition: generally excellent, slight touch-up at right shoulder seam. Comments: Germany, circa 1875. Value Points: well sculpted detail of hair with original feathering detail.
Presale Estimate:
400/600
Realized Price:
$550
15" (38 cm.) l. Standing upon a wooden base with cast iron spoked wheels is a brown and white hide-covered cow with large brown glass eyes, horns, carved hooves and nose, and hide tail. The cow has original leather collar with brass bell, and is decorated with a bead-trimmed needlework collar accented with colorful braided ribbon streamers, and with a brass coronet with colorful wreath of flowers. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, mid-1800s. The Alpine regions of Switzerland, Germany and Austria traditionally celebrated Spring with the annual "ascent to the mountains" during which herds of cows and their shepherds single-filed the narrow mountain passes to reach the freshest grasses at the mountain peaks, where they feasted until August. At that time, they returned, single-file again, down the narrow passes to the villages below. The return to the villages ("descent from the mountains", known as "Almabtrieb" in Austria and "Alpabfahrten" in Switzerland) was celebrated by merry festivals. The shepherds dressed in colorful traditional folklore costumes, and the greatest milk-producing cow was bedecked with flowers and a crown. Historical accounts have poetically described the event as "cow bells across the meadows". Value Points: very rare early toy with wonderful detail and historical background.
Presale Estimate:
1600/2200
Realized Price:
$1,900
14" (36 cm.) Porcelain shoulderhead with short black sculpted hair accentuated with feathered detail around the forehead, double chin, muslin stitch-jointed body, porcelain lower arms. Condition: generally excellent, left thumb chipped. Comments: Germany, circa 1860. Value Points: seldom-found early model with plumply-modeled face and short hair, original forelock costume.
Presale Estimate:
600/800
Realized Price:
$450
14" (36 cm.) h. man. 9"l. donkey. Each of superbly-carved dark wood with rich patina of finish, including man in costume of early 1800s including top hat, long tail jacket, breeches, and with satchel and rifle, with maker's initial H.A. on underside. And carved donkey with carved detail of harness and saddle and with two detachable baskets, a baby resting in one, and a bird and dish in the other, with old paper label on underside, indicating provenance to the estate of J. Meyer-am Rhyn. Excellent condition, repair to donkey tail. Grodnertal, early 1800s.
Presale Estimate:
1200/1500
Realized Price:
$750
34" (86 cm.) x 19" x 11". The early wooden shop with angled sides has original painted ochre/brown finish and is fitted with numerous cabinets, drawers and shelving around the three walls, and with matching counter which stands in the center of the wooden floor with original patterned finish. The store is lavishly filled with apothecary contents including a matched set of milk glass labeled jars which line the top shelf, dozens of glass bottles with intriguing herbal cures, and various labeled tin and cardboard containers, as well as scales, mortar and pestle, ladder, two skulls and a skeleton. A porcelain head man in blue uniform stands in attendance. The shop has original Apotheke name at the center top of back wall. Excellent condition. Germany, mid-1800s.
Presale Estimate:
3500/4500
Realized Price:
$1,800
20" (51 cm.) Bisque socket head, brown glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner, painted lashes, rose-blushed eyeshadow, accented eye corners, shaded nostrils, closed mouth, defined space between the shaded and outlined lips, pierced ears, dimpled chin, French composition and wooden eight-loose-ball-jointed body with straight wrists, lovely antique costume. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: R 2 D. Comments: Rabery and Delphieu, circa 1882, early period block letter model from that firm. Value Points: lovely pale bisque accentuated by rich brown eyes, beautifully painted lips.
Presale Estimate:
3500/4500
Realized Price:
$3,750
11" (28 cm.) Emerging from the top of a paper mache cabbage, covered with fabric cabbage leaves, is a white fur-covered bunny with amber glass eyes, hinged ears, hinged jaw with red lips. When wound, music plays, the bunny turns side to side and his ears move up and down. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Roullet et Decamps, circa 1900. Value Points: wonderful state of preservation of the white bunny whose motions and music function well.
Presale Estimate:
2500/3500
Realized Price:
$6,000