$8,500
Portrait Jumeau Swivel-Head Fashion Doll and Original Outfits, with closed mouth accented in slight smile, fixed threaded blue eyes with shaded lids, arched light brown feathered brows, pierced-in ears with wire loops for earrings, original strawberry-blonde mohair wig, and gusseted cream kid body with individually stitched fingers, ht. 19 1/2 in., (wig is tightly secured and has not been removed, firing blemish on forehead and right cheek, damage to left knee and right wrist, armature wire protruding through lower left arm); costumes: champagne silk satin two-piece wedding dress with lace trim; light coral taffeta single-piece gown trimmed with brown lace and fabric daisies; two-piece light saffron silk taffeta gown trimmed with cream lace and silk violets; aqua and gray silk satin two-piece gown with ruffled details; white cotton shift and pinafore (both foxed); and a very long white cotton petticoat. Provenance: From the family of the original owner, Minnie Knowlton, great-grandmother of the seller, who won the doll in a raffle at the Homeopathic Fair in New York. Included with the doll is a newspaper clipping from Eli Perkin's "About the Town" column from Fifth Avenue Hotel, April 22, with pencil inscription 1871 . Text in full: "A $500 doll! A doll with an elaborate Parisian trousseau , with Dollie Varden morning dresses, street dresses, flounced with real lace and court train evening costumes, covered with real point - not a young lady, but a doll ! Who sold it, a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-08-23
