Onsite
Highest Bidder
$14,000
Sold
sold
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- Estimate
- $8,000 / $11,000
Gold Horse ListingDescription
17" (43 cm.) Bisque socket head, small blue glass inset eyes in half-moon shape, dark eyeliner, painted short curly lashes, delicate feathered brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with wide shy smile, outlined lips, row of painted teeth, auburn mohair wig, composition and wooden ball-jointed body, wearing antique burgundy mariner costume, undergarments, leather shoes, and tan leather middy cap. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 1450/0. Comments: Germany, maker unknown, circa 1912. Value Points: very rare model is virtually unknown, very fine quality of bisque and painting enhances the shy entreating expression.
Stuart's Take
It's not usual to see a doll that once graced the cover of a Theriault catalog to return again just two years later, this one featured at Theriault's November '22 event, It was the last doll Mrs. Nievergelt would ever purchase. After four decades, starting in the London markets of Portobello Road in the 1980's, she would close her book of collecting with this doll. I find it to be a fitting end. A doll so joyful, as if reminiscing of the happy life of a collector, that it becomes an exclamation point at the final sentence. May we all leave collecting with such a smile.