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"Echoes of Old Remembered Times" Marquis Doll Auction - January 23 and 24, 2021
Outstanding antique dolls from private estates are offered to discerning collectors in this two day auction ranging from the finest French bisque bébés and poupées to German art characters, early wooden and paper mache dolls, early 20th century American dolls, doll rooms and stores and all the treasures of childhood past one expects from a Theriault Marquis auction. Catalog available for $59.
$59.00
The Doll as Theatre: Neapolitan and Continental Dolls of the 17th and 18th Century from the Hanne Büktas Collection: Volume Two - Softbound
Hanne Büktas began the pursuit of Continental dolls including Grodnertal, Genoese and Neapolitans, and, as was the case with her poupée collection, the pursuit encompassed each aspect of that collecting niche, including furnishings, accessories, animals, and other accoutrements. This is her final remaining collection, her favorite, and it will be presented in a special one-day event December 5, 2020 and a 2nd part March 6, 2021. A special commemorative 2-volume catalog is in preparation and will feature nearly 500 dolls and hundreds of related ephemera, furnishings, and accessories. Volume One ships Mid-November, Volume Two ships Mid-February.
$75.00
The Doll as Theatre: Neapolitan and Continental Dolls of the 17th and 18th Century from the Hanne Büktas Collection: Volume Two - Deluxe Hardbound
Hanne Büktas began the pursuit of Continental dolls including Grodnertal, Genoese and Neapolitans, and, as was the case with her poupée collection, the pursuit encompassed each aspect of that collecting niche, including furnishings, accessories, animals, and other accoutrements. This is her final remaining collection, her favorite, and it will be presented in a special one-day event December 5, 2020 and a 2nd part March 6, 2021. A special commemorative 2-volume catalog is in preparation and will feature nearly 500 dolls and hundreds of related ephemera, furnishings, and accessories. Volume One ships Mid-November, Volume Two ships Mid-February.
$105.00
The Doll as Theatre: Neapolitan and Continental Dolls of the 17th and 18th Century from the Hanne Büktas Collection: Vol 1-2 - Softbound
Hanne Büktas began the pursuit of Continental dolls including Grodnertal, Genoese and Neapolitans, and, as was the case with her poupée collection, the pursuit encompassed each aspect of that collecting niche, including furnishings, accessories, animals, and other accoutrements. This is her final remaining collection, her favorite, and it will be presented in a special one-day event December 5, 2020 and a 2nd part March 6, 2021. A special commemorative 2-volume catalog is in preparation and will feature nearly 500 dolls and hundreds of related ephemera, furnishings, and accessories. Volume One ships Mid-November, Volume Two ships Mid-February.
$125.00
THE DOLL AS THEATRE: NEAPOLITAN AND CONTINENTAL DOLLS OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY FROM THE HANNE BÜKTAS COLLECTION: VOL 1-2 - DELUXE HARDBOUND
Hanne Büktas began the pursuit of Continental dolls including Grodnertal, Genoese and Neapolitans, and, as was the case with her poupée collection, the pursuit encompassed each aspect of that collecting niche, including furnishings, accessories, animals, and other accoutrements. This is her final remaining collection, her favorite, and it will be presented in a special one-day event December 5, 2020 and a 2nd part March 6, 2021. A special commemorative 2-volume catalog is in preparation and will feature nearly 500 dolls and hundreds of related ephemera, furnishings, and accessories. Volume One ships Mid-November, Volume Two ships Mid-February.
$165.00
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De Kleine Wereld Museum of Lier
April 1, 2012 in San Francisco, CA
An exceptional collection, considered one of the finest private small museums of childhood ephemera in the world, featuring beautiful dolls, rare dollhouses, stores, kitchens, and finest quality maitrise doll furnishings from the 19th century. 9" x 9". Softbound. 164 full-color pages.
$59.00
The Well-Bred Doll
March 31, 2012 in San Francisco, CA
An exceptional auction featuring private collections from France, Germany and America. Rare and exquisite dolls and automata are included in this remarkable auction including an extremely rare 38” bébé by Thuillier, and Vichy’s superlative Lady at the Harp Piano, as well as delectable treasures from Bru, Jumeau, Schmitt, Steiner and other French makers, and bisque character dolls from notable German firms. 9" x 9". Softbound. 120 full-color pages.
$59.00
A Child's Dream Come True
January 15, 2012 in Newport Beach, CA
Featuring a fine collection of vintage American dolls from the golden 1950s, highlighted by a collection of more than 50 Cissy fashion models, rare and mint early Elise dolls, and including such rarities as the early Rosamund Bridesmaid. Of note is a collection of 12 Alexander dolls in their original Ice Capades costumes as created in the Ice Capades studios. Also included are 1950s vintage lady and child dolls from other firms including Miss Revlon, Toni, Sweet Sue, Betsy McCall, Harriet Hubbard Ayers, and Mary Hoyer. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 84 full-color pages.
$49.00
Other People's Lives
January 13-14, 2012 in Newport Beach, CA
It is the special privilege of the antique lover to hold in one’s hands not only the physical object of one’s delight, but also its particular past place in other people’s lives. This 500 lot auction of antique dolls entitled “Other People’s Lives,” includes fine French dolls from original French chateaux as well as private American collections, automata, and rare German characters, dollhouse shops and rooms including milliner’s shops from the famous Landsberg Museum of Germany, to begin to name the treasures. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 192 full-color pages.
$59.00
Many Wonderful Things
November 19, 2011 in New York City, NY
A superb collection of 19th century antique French dolls and automata, highlighted by the important automata of Candy Spelling, including works by Vichy, Theroude, Lambert, and Roullet et Decamps. A catalog of these rare works, along with the several hundred of the finest 19th and early 20th century dolls including exemplary examples from Bru, Schmidt et Fils, Steiner, and Jumeau. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 140 full-color pages.
$49.00
To The Manor Born
November 20, 2011 in New York City, NY
An extraordinary collection of historical, portrait, fashionable, and child dolls from Madame Alexander, highlighted by extremely rare models from the golden era of the 1950s. The rare collection was assembled by Los Angeles luminary, Candy Spelling, over several decades. She chose dolls not only for their great rarity but also for their pristine and vibrant presentation, and once owned, preserved them meticulously in glass vitrines in her Holmsby Hills mansion named The Manor. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 144 full-color pages.
$49.00
Raised by the Song of the Murmuring Grove
July 24, 2011 in Anaheim, CA
An 18th century poem by the German romantic poet, Friedrich Holderlin, inspires the title, ranging from a superior collection of rare French dolls including Suzanne Amaryllis of Rouen, a Rohmer poupée with signed Rohmer trunk and trousseau from its original French estate, to very fine German bisque art character dolls, to one-person collections of early Raggedy Anns and wonderful teddy bears. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 164 full-color pages.
$59.00
Curtain Call- The Collection of Billie Nelson
April 9-10, 2011 in Los Angeles, CA
Billie Nelson Tyrrell’s collection includes superb rarities in French and German bisque dolls by luminary doll firms of the late 19th and early 20th century, as well as an extremely important collection of celebrity dolls and memorabilia from 1850-1950. Outstanding examples of these are included in the 500+ lot auction catalog titled “Curtain Call”, an apt name for these beautiful dolls taking their well-deserved bows for one more time. 8.5" x 11". Softbound. 176 full-color pages.
$59.00
The Boys' Collection
January 9, 2011 in Newport Beach, CA
Stefan Hoegl and Juergen Suerig of Munich, Germany, are born collectors and although their home is a veritable wonderland of carefully chosen 19th century antiques, it has been their antique dollhouse collection that most captured their collecting soul. Collectors of dollhouses, dollhouse miniatures, miniature stores and kitchens have had glimpses of The Boys’ Collection, as it came to be known, when photographs of many of their objects appeared in the books, Ormolu Dollhouse Accessories and Christian Hacker, Antique German Dollhouses. 10" x 10". Hardbound. 164 full-color pages.
$59.00
The Dolls in the House at the Top of the Hill
January 7-8, 2011 in Newport Beach, CA
Featured are world-class antique dolls from the private estate collection of June Ellen Lane of Lake Arrowhead, California. For June Ellen Lane, the acquisition of a rare doll was not enough. Because the rare doll must also be the best quality example that could be found of that model. And further, because she sought not only rarity and quality, but eagerly searched to learn all the social and personal history that could be learned about her dolls, they simply seem to beam with specialness. 10" x 10". Hardbound. 216 full-color pages.
$69.00