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"Open the Gates, Swing Wide the Portal" Marquis Auction of Antique Dolls - Monday, August 1, 2022

"Open the Gates, Swing Wide the Portals" A Grand Exhibition and Marquis Auction of Rare Antique Dolls and Playthings at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel, St Louis, Missouri on Monday, August 1, 2022. The auction features four important collections from Lorna Lieberman, Part One of Louise Hendrick, Kathryn DeFillipo, and the Keith and Donna Kaonis Schoenhut Collection. Collectors are invited to attend the important one-day exhibition and auction which offers live attendance bidding, live internet bidding, live telephone bidding and absentee bidding. For more information call 410-224-3655 or email info@theriaults.com.
$69.00
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In Perfect Harmony
January 9, 2010 in Newport Beach, CA

An extraordinary collection of the rarest antique dolls, focusing on elusive models and unusual faces. French dolls include the mischievous Jumeau character 203 and his lovely lady partner who were featured on the cover of Doll News in February 1964 along with their fascinating history; both are still garbed in their impeccably preserved more than a century-old festival costumes. More than 300 dolls and doll related objects are featured. 8.5" x 11". Hardbound. 168 full-color pages.
$59.00
Echoes of Remembered Rooms - Volume II
January 10, 2010 in Newport Beach, CA

Featuring 125 antique doll houses, doll rooms and kitchens, and hundreds of rare miniature furnishings, accessories and dolls. The book features the 30-year collection of Hanne Büktas of Vienna, Austria. "These extraordinary objects from the 19th and early 20th centuries are a testament to one woman’s vision of a perfect past", says Florence Theriault who authored the book. 12" x 9". Hardbound. 224 full-color pages.
$89.00
Past Perfect
November 1, 2009 in Scottsdale, AZ

In the quest for vintage Alexander dolls, one must make the choice: the rare or the perfect. Dolls appear as they left the shelves half a century ago. And then at a second glance, you notice that they are the rare models that appear on the market only a few times each decade. Such is the collection of the late Martha Hester of Houston, Texas, whose dolls were among those featured in the book Madame Alexander Dolls, An American Legend. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 100 full-color pages.
$49.00
Playful Art - The 20th Century Doll
July 12, 2009 in Atlanta, GA

Featuring dolls from the private collection of John Axe, more than 250 dolls that were the beloved playthings of American children from 1920s to 1960s. Ranging from wonderful Shirley Temple dolls, #1 Barbies to Pinocchio, Dionne Quintuplets, Charlie McCarthy, and other celebrity and character composition models. 9.5" x 9.5". Softbound. 124 full-color pages.
$39.00
Dance of the Hours
July 12, 2009 in Atlanta, GA

Featuring the extremely rare portrait model designed by the Parisian sculptor Albert Marque. A very rare Princess Juliana by Gebruder Heubach, early cloth dolls, Kathe Kruse, Schoenhut toys, and paper mache characters. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 136 full-color pages.
$59.00
Let The Little Lambs Play
April 26, 2009 in Short Hills, NJ

Theriault's offers a springtime bouquet of dolls, a felicitous mixture of beautiful bébés and innocent cloth folk dolls, of tiny yet elegant all bisque mignonettes and rowdy plump-bodied toddlers, of saucy studio cloth dolls and slender-bodied paper mache and bisque ladies. More than 300 fine antique and vintage dolls along with a garden of other childhood fancies and ephemera. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 144 full-color pages.
$49.00
The Ties that Bind
January 11, 2009 in Newport Beach, CA

More than 300 antique doll costumes are featured, including gowns for fashionable lady dolls, dresses for French bébés or German bisque children, along with bonnets, shoes and complete trousseaux. Divided into chapters by theme and decade. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 120 full-color pages.
$49.00
Keeper of the Dolls
January 10, 2009 in Newport Beach, CA

More than 300 of the world's rarest antique dolls are featured, along with dollhouses, pull toys, paintings of children, miniature dolls, fine doll furniture and identification and documentation for every object. 10" x 10". Hardbound. 165 full-color pages.
$75.00
M'Lady - Margaret Hartshorn Collection
January 9, 2009 in Newport Beach, CA

M'Lady, the landmark collection of the late Margaret Hartshorn of Asheville, North Carolina, features fine early 18th and 19th century lady dolls of wood, cloth and porcelain. Mrs. Hartshorn entered her dolls in many UFDC competitions and collectors will be astounded at the blue ribbons that so many of her dolls were awarded. 8" x 11". Hardbound. 136 full-color pages.
$59.00
Music Motion, Fancy
November 23, 2008 in Morristown, NJ

Rare automata and musical boxes from the 19th century are featured, including several outstanding models never previously documented. Multiple images of many pieces capture the "actions" of acrobats, clowns, and magicians. 9" x 12". Hardbound. 158 full-color pages.
$75.00