#34

All Original French Miniature School Room
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$2,400
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Description
17" x 12". Preserved in its original cardboard box on a framed wooden platform is a French schoolroom with teacher's podiumn and desk, blackboards, and four double desks and benches each with paper instructional booklets. Folding walls are designed to fit into wooden floor slats, and reveal maps of France and Asia, arithmetic tables, and a wall clock signed Paris. Attending the school is a 5" all bisque doll as teacher with swivel head, glass eyes, peg-jointed bisque arms and legs, blonde mohair wig, and silk dress, along with eight students, each with bisque swivel head, painted features, blonde mohair wig, peg-jointed limbs, original cotton dresses with lace collars. Condition: generally excellent, unplayed with. Comments: French, circa 1890, an accompanying letter, dated 1934, bequeaths the toy to "Ma cher Suzanne" describing the schoolroom as a "toy from my long-ago childhood". Value Points: fine original unplayed with condition.