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"Open the Gates, Swing Wide the Portals" 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 Hedrick, 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
Golden Age of Ningyō, Japanese Dolls from the Ayervais Collection - Saturday, October 15, 2022

The important one-owner collection of Michael Ayervais of New York was assembled over more than 30 years, and features important examples highlighted in museum exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mingei Museum, and Morikami Museum, and shown in Ningyō, The Art of the Japanese Doll by Alan Scott Pate who is serving as consultant and cataloguer for this auction. A superb full color catalog will be available for the auction in September. For more information call 410-224-3655 or email info@theriaults.com.
$75.00
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Dance of the Hours
Saturday, March 21, 2020 in Annapolis, Maryland

"Dance of the Hours" Antique Doll Auction. Featuring the extraordinary 50 year collection of Lillian Hamm of Branchville, New Jersey highlighted by a splendid example of the very rare Albert Marque doll which was previously displayed at the Winter Haven Museum of Antique Dolls in Florida before making its home with Lillian Hamm nearly 35 years ago. The auction also features the Ackerman Collection of Schoenhuts, Part II. Softbound. 8.5" x 11".
$59.00
A Circle of Dolls
January 12, 2020 in Santa Barbara, California

“A Circle of Dolls” was the theme of Theriault’s October, 1981 catalog auction, the title inspired by Frenchman architect, Pierre Charles L’Enfant, whose designs concerned the use of interlocking circles to unify people and places. This is, fittingly, the first commemorative title chosen. Highlighting the auction are dolls from the estate of Connie Frank of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, whose enthusiastic pleasure in dolls and toys graced the auction rooms of Theriault’s for nearly two decades. Softbound. 10" x 10". 140 pages.
$59.00
The Doll Collection of Huguette Clark
January 11, 2020 in Santa Barbara, California

The collection comprises extraordinary dolls and automata from the French golden age of 1860-1890, as well as selections of sought-after early Japanese cultural dolls and architectural miniatures. The Huguette Clark auction appropriately centers the inauguration of Theriault’s 50th anniversary year. An early and continuing client of Theriault’s for decades, her dolls include many fine antique examples from that 50 year span, as well as privately commissioned Japanese art dolls. Hardbound. 10" x 10". 232 pages.
$119.00
Madame Alexander, The Rodney Waller Collection: Part Three
October 27, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois

Time has come for Beatrice Alexander, signature American dollmaker and designer, to take her rightful place among antique dolls. Nearly 90 years have passed since her dolls first appeared, and for more than a half century she stood as a symbol of excellence, ingenuity, and marketing mastery in the world of American dolls. Collector Rodney Waller noted this many years ago, and began a quest to find the rarest of the rarest of her dolls, prizing originality and excellence of condition as well as rarity. This is Session III of his three-part auction of Madame Alexander dolls. Softbound. 8.5" x 11". 140 pages.
$69.00
Blithe Heart, Dancing Beneath Wool
October 26, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois

Hhighlighted by the antique doll collection of Marilyn Bard of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, whose superb portrait Jumeau bébé, shown on the cover, is wearing its original Scottish coarse-woolen costume. Also featured are dolls from the collections of the late Laura Weiner of Washington state, Part I of the collection of the late Marilyn Parsons of Louisiana, and selections from the Swiss collection of Madame X. Softbound. 8.5" x 11". 148 pages.
$59.00
Lady Fancies, Part II. Half Dolls, Bathing Beauties and More
October 19, 2019 in Annapolis, Maryland

The Private 50-Year Collection of Hanne Büktas of Vienna, Austria - Half Dolls, Tea Cozies, Pincushion, Bathing Beauties and Other Lady Figures. This extraordinary collection of more than 700 rare French and German pieces spans 1900-1930s and features classic ladies of elegance as well as Art Deco and Art Nouveau themed figures of women. Many are presented as waist-up figures, while others have original pincushion or tea-cozy attachments, and still others form into delightful powder puffs, candy box lids, or bibelot boxes. The collection will be offered in two parts. Softbound. 9" x 10". 112 pages.
$55.00
Miles To Go, Promises To Keep
July 22, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee

Inspired by the Robert Frost poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, Theriault’s offers another exceptional private collection of antique dolls carefully gathered by Mary Lou Rubright of Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania during the late 1970s and 1980s. It was enthusiastic zeal that still instructs her life which gave her purpose to seek and acquire fine dolls. Featuring the Prestige Collection of Mary Lou Rubright of Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania. Softbound. 8.5" x 11". 216 pages.
$59.00
Lady Fancies, Part I. Half Dolls, Bathing Beauties and More
May 5, 2019 in Morristown, New Jersey

The Private 50-Year Collection of Hanne Büktas of Vienna, Austria - Half Dolls, Tea Cozies, Pincushion, Bathing Beauties and Other Lady Figures. This extraordinary collection of more than 700 rare French and German pieces spans 1900-1930s and features classic ladies of elegance as well as Art Deco and Art Nouveau themed figures of women. Many are presented as waist-up figures, while others have original pincushion or tea-cozy attachments, and still others form into delightful powder puffs, candy box lids, or bibelot boxes. The collection will be offered in two parts. Softbound. 9" x 10". 128 pages.
$55.00
Oh, My Stars and Garters!
May 4, 2019 in Morristown, New Jersey

In America we say “Oh, my goodness”, an expression of delight and astonishment. In England, the exclamation “Oh, my stars and garters!” has the same meaning. Both meanings are appropriate for the Sharon Jerome antique doll collection which will be of great delight and, also, worthy of the highest order. More than 400 important antique dolls, automata, early doll houses and miniatures are offered in this auction, including, appropriately early English wooden dolls. Softbound. 8.5" x 11". 136 pages.
$59.00
Daffadowndilly, The Paul Johnson Collection and the Lumia Collection: Part Two
March 16, 2019 in Naples, Florida

The auction features several prominent collections including that of the late Paul Johnson of Kansas, Part II of the Landmark collection of Margaret Lumia, and others. Softbound. 8.5" x 11". 164 pages.
$59.00