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Antique wooden ship. Erzgebirge, Folk art, Germany. Ca 1900.

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Category: Wooden toys
A fine piece of Folk art from Erzgebirge Germany. Beautiful antique wooden ship. Made of wood, finely painted details. All original. Size L. 9 cm/ 3-1/2". H. 4 cm / 1-1/2"

Antique Christmas ornament of Silver Dresden Owl, ca 1890

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Category: Christmas and holiday ornaments
Lovely Christmas ornament of a silver Dresden Owl. three-dimensional.Germany ca 1890. Good condition, but with some wear. Size: H.7,2 cm. W. 6 cm. ( 2 3/4"x 2 1/3") Literatur:Joseph G. Hrncirik:Luxus aus Pappe- Dresdner Christbaumschmuck 1870-1914

Antique Christmas ornament of Silver Dresden Donkey, ca 1890

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Category: Christmas and holiday ornaments
Lovely Christmas ornament of a silver Dresden Donkey. Three-dimensional.Germany ca 1890. Good condition, but with some wear. Size: H.7,2 cm./ 2 3/4"x 2 1/3") Literatur:Joseph G. Hrncirik:Luxus aus Pappe- Dresdner Christbaumschmuck 1870-1914

A pretty decorated dollhouse feather Christmas Tree, Germany ca 1890.

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Category: Antique Dollhouse Accessories
8-1/3" /21 cm tall. Lovely Christmas feather Tree with lovely decorated branches with waxcandles and different blown colored glass miniature balls. On a wooden base. These trees were made of goose feathers in Germany. A pretty piece for the dolls' house. It is in wonderful original condition. Ca 1890

Early French Papier-mache doll. ca 1840. Perfeckt mint condition.

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Category: Antique Papier-mâché/Paper-Mache Dolls and Wooden dolls (1750-1860)
13-1/2"/34 cm. Charming French Papier-mache Lady doll, ( Pauline) ca 1840 with painted and modelled black curly hair, paintedblue eyes, finely painted browns, delicately painted mouth and cheeks. She is on her all original body and arms with stitched fingers,-body is sturdy and in a in great condition. Her dress is antique and original: a creme printed calico dress .(all hand stiched, underwear and great original leather shoes. She is in a very good state of preservation.She is so beautiful and so original! A rare to find French Pauline Type. A great choice for the collector of early dolls .Paper mache doll.

Lovely antique a purse. Dresden. Ca 1880

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Category: Antique Dollhouse Accessories
This Dresden ornament is just wonderful. It is made as a fine doll´s purse. The details are amazing. Embossed Dresden paper, embroidery at the cover, which opens, decorated with golden Dresdner trims. Inside covered with light purple paper and green silk. 4 small holders inside. It is in a good condition-but the silk in the edges is fragile. Also suitable for a doll house or a doll as accessory. Ca 1880. Size : H. 6 cm (+handles) W. 7 cm. (2-1/3" x 2-3/4" Literatur:Christbaumschmuck aus hundert Jahren * von Wiltrud Elbert

Antique Porcelain Fortune-Telling Doll for the French Market. Ca 1860.

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Category: Antique Chinahead and Parian dolls 1840-1870
Early Porcelain Fortune-Telling Doll for the French Market 9,1/2" (24 cm.) including hat. Porcelain shoulder head with black sculpted hair, painted facial features, muslin body,china arms and legs with flat shoes.Circa 1880.The doll was used for presentation of fortune-telling made for the French market. She is wearing original gold-brown velvet gown with black lace. Matching hat with band.The fortune teller has an "under-skirt" composed of hundreds of folded paper fortunes, each with a hand-written fortune in French language. It is rare to find a fortune -telling doll in such a complete state. Size of doll 24,3 cm /9 1/2 with hat". She is all original. A very rare and intersting doll for the collection. Wonderful Condition

Lehmann “Ajax”. Tumbling Acrobat Warrior EPL # 659"

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Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
This Lehmann "Ajax" toy was Patented 1903, this one ca 1914. The most articulated of all the Lehmann toys which uses a very complicated mechanism. It shows a warrior with clubs standing on long slats turning a somersault while fully extending. These came with two different kind of clothing and were expensive toys at the time. This one is the striped clothing version. Stands 10" ( 25 cm). Wind up, all original clothing and working fine.( Patent EPL 659) Very good condition. Some minor schratces due to age. Literatur: Heike Köhler/Katharina Kreschel: Vom störischen Esel zum Kletteraffen Tom. Brandenburger Museumshefte 6, Brandenburg an der Havel 2007; Jürgen & Marianne Clieslik: Ein Jahrhundert Blechspielzeug, München 1981. Helmut Schwarz/Marion Faber: Bewegte Zeiten/Moving Times. Ernst Paul Lehmann-Patentwerk. Geschichte einer Spielwarenfabrik/History on a Toy Factory, Hrsg. Museen der Stadt Nürnberg 2003.