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"The Reaches of the Street" Marquis Antique Doll Auction - October 3, 2020
Throughout its 50th anniversary year, Theriault’s will echo earlier catalog titles, those that most captured the sense of history offered by our common past. “The Reaches of the Street”, inspired by a line in an early 20th century poem by T.S. Eliot, was the theme of Theriault’s October, 1991 catalog which paid homage to dolls created during the art character movement of that same era, dolls aptly described in one famous exhibition as “children of the street”. The auction is highlighted by the important collection of art character dolls from the collection of the late Susan Hill of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
$59.00
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Shirley Temple: Collections
June 2, 2018 in Linthicum Heights, Maryland
Born in the early 1930s, Iva Mae and Janet had each grown up in small town America, adored Shirley Temple during their childhood, and carried this admiration into adulthood, cherishing the treasures from their own youth, and then, beginning in the 1980s, beginning a keen search for all rare treasures related to their childhood idol. Their collections perfectly blend. Iva Mae concentrated on the Shirley Temple dolls, especially those wearing rare costumes, and Janet sought rare paper ephemera ranging from early sheet music to postcards and scrapbooks. The two collections feature more than 250 lots. Softbound. 8.5" x 11". 76 pages.
$19.00
Tears for Mina
March 17-18, 2018 in Naples, Florida
The important two day Marquis auction features both famous and long-lost collections including Part II of Samy Odin’s Musée de la Poupée in Paris, now closed forever; an outstanding private collection of rare French poupées, bébés and automata; and the extraordinary Myla Perkins Collection of Leo Moss dolls as featured in her book, "Black Dolls". Softbound. 8.5" x 11". 200 pages.
$59.00
Bijoux
January 6-7, 2018 in Newport Beach, California
An Important Auction of 19th Century Automata, Dolls and Playthings featuring over 500 lots of rare treasures of childhood past, highlighted by the long-lost collection of Madame X of Texas, with rarities ranging from the exceptional automata to the Kaonis Collection of Palmer Cox Brownies, a remarkable collection of early Steiff pieces, to the extremely rare bejeweled French lady by Rochard. German bisque characters, from a collection of more than 100 rare models, early English wooden dolls, early Kathe Kruse dolls, and stunning French bisque poupées. Softbound. 9" x 12". 256 pages.
$69.00
Bittersweet
October 28-29, 2017 in Scottsdale, Arizona
This important two-day cataloged auction will feature more than 500 dolls. Dolls from the Private Collection of Lorna Lieberman of Leawood, Kansas, formerly of Boston. Part II of her extraordinary collection of early wax, wooden, and porcelain dolls, and fine French poupees, many with original provenance including Miss Annie Kelley’s exceptional Sanitary Commission Fair doll of 1863.
$59.00
I Only Wanted to Wonder
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 in Orlando, Florida
Showcasing two important doll collections including The Private Collection of Lorna Lieberman, Part I, who for more than five decades has gathered fine antique dolls with an eye for both rarity and quality. A lifetime member of the early Doll Collectors of America, as well as the Boston Study Club of UFDC, Lorna has created a collection that is the perfect balance between a pure and simple love of dolls and the scholar’s zeal to truly know all about them ... the enigma suggested in the auction title “I Only Wanted to Wonder”. And including the complete and extensive Private Collection of Petra Aichele of Stuttgart, Germany. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 252 pages.
$59.00
EXPRESSIONS
May 6-7, 2017 in Dallas, Texas
For nearly 40 years, in her home just behind the famed Oslo Castle, Liv Greta Brem has gathered a consummate collection of fine European antique dolls including those once owned by the family of the Norwegian expressionist painter, Edvard Munch. Expressions, in fact, have been the theme of the Brem collection, as she sought dolls whose faces reflected human moods, both of children and adults. Fine antique dolls of bisque, porcelain, paper mache, wood and wax filled every cranny of this private museum. Each is featured in the fine full color catalog with detailed photographs and historical descriptions. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 160 pages.
$49.00
What Finespun Threads
Sunday, March 12, 2017 in Bonita Springs, Florida
Several hundred wonderful antique doll costumes including fashion gowns, bebe dresses, character doll costumes, bonnets, shoes and accessories are featured in this fabulous collection. The rarity of antique costumes has become more evident with each passing year, ensuring that this collection will entice every collector wishing to refresh their doll wardrobes. Each piece is featured (many with front and back views) in a full color catalog. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 144 pages.
$59.00
Interlude
Saturday, March 11, 2017 in Bonita Springs, Florida
Highlighted by an exceptional collection of 35 rare automata from the Golden Age including several grand examples by Vichy such as Magician Lady, Girl with Theatre, and Lady with Performing Pierrot, each with portrait Jumeau heads, as well as the extremely rare Whistling Boy with art character face 205. Along with an outstanding collection of rare French bisque bébés and poupées, German bisque art characters, American folk cloth, mignonettes, dollhouses and other superb examples of childhood past. Each is featured in the fine full color catalog with detailed photographs and historical descriptions. 9" x 12". Softbound. 148 pages.
$59.00
The Voyage Continues
January 7, 2017 in Newport Beach, California
Filled with a bounty of dolls, many owning trunks of costumes and accessories, each bound from its past journeys and now hopefully inclined to its next home, this extraordinary auction celebrates the passage of the doll, through history, through the hands of loving owners, generation after generation. Join Theriault’s to celebrate this continuing voyage, and, for yourself, bring home a doll. The catalog features more than 500 of the world’s finest dolls, toys, automata, and related childhood playthings. 10" x 10". Hardbound. 148 pages.
$75.00
Fascination
January 8, 2017 in Newport Beach, California
The legendary doll collection of Samy Odin from the Musée de la Poupée of Paris is the subject of this extraordinary one-person auction. Many of the more than 400 dolls in the collection, most mirroring the amazing history of the French doll, have been featured in the books authored by Samy Odin, and in numerous articles appearing in Antique Doll Collector. The catalog features more than 500 wonderful antique dolls and playthings. 10" x 10". Hardbound. 196 pages.
$75.00