Large German Wooden Dollhouse attributed to Christian Hacker

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30"W. x 36"H. x 14"D(excluding front platform). A wooden two story house is constructed to open to four individual rooms by hidden hinged doors. The architectural style features modified Mansard roof with gilt metallic railing framing the top, set-back right front side, center front door with elaborate carving below a matching second floor front door that opens onto a small porch. There are wide arched windows on the first floor, and large rectangular windows on the second. A large attic is accessed by lifting off the flat roof, and the first and second floors are "stackable", too. The interior rooms retain original wall and floor papers, and curtains, and the house is generously furnished with antique furniture and decorations of the era, including kitchen set with elaborate cupboard, unusual wall-hanging tin sink, faience stove with embossed tin door, and four small bisque dolls. The exterior lithographed paper shingles are intact, the remaining exterior has original (faded) paint. Attributed to Christian Hacker, Germany, circa 1892, a similar house appears on page 18 "Little Houses by the Side of the Road".