Christmas Meeting Displays

Here are a tea party with German bisque dolls (cloth Alabama baby with back to us):i.e.,

-doll in blue dress with white pinafore is a 31"Heinrich Handwerck/Simon Halbig

-doll in pink dress and bonnet is Kestner, mold 146

-doll in yellow dress and bonnet is Kestner, mold 154

-doll in green velvet dress with white lace collar and white lace bonnet is an unmarked composition.

-Alabama Baby has his back to you.

 A German bisque dome head baby in the high chair, a wonderful Christmas tree with many handmade ornaments, some of which are hand felted ones made at one of our club workshops, and a nutcracker mantel display.

TWO DOLL DISPLAYS

At the top is a very old wooden cradle (probably 1800's) used to display old chinas. The 4 "middle ones" are dressed as U.S. First Ladies, i.e. Mary Todd Lincoln, Dolley Smith Todd Madison, Abigail Smith Adams, and Jane Appleton Pierce. These four were found together in an antique shop in New Orleans. All these dolls range in age from 1840 to about 1900.

The second photo shows an early 20th century wicker doll buggy holding a blonde china from about 1880 and a "pumpkin head" papier mache with pupiless glass eyes and wooden limbs from the same time period. She wears a gold-filled woven memorial hair pin dated 1840.

DOLL DISPLAYS