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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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Madame Alexander, The Rodney Waller Collection: Part Two
March 17, 2019 in Naples, Florida

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 II of his two-part auction, featuring the mid-century dolls, 1948-1970, of Madame Alexander. Softbound. 8.5" x 11". 208 pages.
$69.00
Landmark, The Margaret Lumia Collection
January 12, 2019 in Newport Beach, California

Only rarely do collections appear with such significance that they can rightfully be labeled legendary or lodestar. Or “Landmark”. Which is the auction title of the collection of Margaret Lumia. Chosen with a discerning eye, acquired with a dogged persistence, and nurtured carefully during their time in her care, her dolls offer today’s collectors a rare opportunity to see – and, perhaps win – a magnificent treasure from time past. The collection ranges from fine early wood and paper mache to superb French bébés and poupées, to the rarest of the German bisque art characters, mostly all in original costumes. There are dollhouses, early doll furniture, and more. Softbound. 10" x 10". 204 pages.
$79.00
Madame Alexander, The Rodney Waller Collection: Part One
January 13, 2019 in Newport Beach, California

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 I of his two-part auction, featuring the cloth and composition dolls, 1930-1948, of Madame Alexander. Softbound. 8.5" x 11". 148 pages.
$69.00
In All Ways Remarkable
November 3, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois

The "In All Ways Remarkable" catalog highlights dolls from the Yesterday's Children Antique Doll & Toy Museum of Vicksburg, Mississippi along with wonderful antique dolls from other private collections including rare French poupées, early Kathe Kruse dolls, early German Grodnertal dolls, superb doll furniture, and a fine collection of rare Lenci models. Softbound. 8.5" x 11". 152 pages.
$49.00
Barbie: Fifteen Golden Years, 1958-1973
November 4, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois

By Florence Theriault. "Barbie: Fifteen Golden Years" highlights a collection of pristine wonderful condition original Barbie dolls from the early era, with detailed descriptions and full-color photographs. Softbound. 8.5" x 11". 108 pages.
$29.00
Provenance
July 16, 2018 in Scottsdale, Arizona

Over 400 lots of rare treasures of childhood past, including other important antique dolls which carry their own personal stories, some from original family owners and others having been cherished in famous collections or museums for many decades, including the important European collection of German doll author Lydia Richter, the Jim Kramer collection of rare Schoenhut circus memorabilia and superb early English wooden dolls with their family stories. Softbound. 9” x 12”. 184 pages.
$49.00
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