Paper Dolls
hand made paper doll, naive paper doll, 1880s paper doll
A sweet 6 1/2” handmade paper doll constructed with the face from an image on an advertising piece and tissue paper with black boots and tissue stockings. c1890s. This is one of three (3) dolls we are offering constructed using the same format. There are two with pink accents and.....
Price: $45.00
Handmade Paper Doll,Bow Ties,Male Paper Dolls
United States: N.p., 1930s. Dapper, charming, and fashionable, "Bill" is a unique handmade paper doll from c.1930s with five full outfits, two overcoats, and a matching hat. Notable for the artist's attention to detail (two separate tiny bowties, including one for the tuxedo which is tucked under the white lapels).....
Price: $226.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1870s. A handmade paper doll with original watercolor artwork of a young Victorian woman in day wear, evening wear, and outerwear, including a feathered bonnet. Original pencil and watercolor, doll measures 5.25", includes doll and 8 (eight) separate outfits.
Price: $375.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: c.1900. An elegantly rendered family of seven (7) blonde Edwardian paper dolls in day wear, including a mother, father, and five daughters ranging in age from around three to fifteen. Original artwork, pencil and watercolor on card, sizes of dolls ranging from approx. 3.5" to 7". No additional.....
Price: $425.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: c.1890. An elegant handmade paper doll with original art depicting a young woman in upper-class late Victorian clothing. Doll is accompanied by eight (8) outfits including day wear, evening wear, and outerwear. Three of the outfits show her holding a book, a kitten, and white roses. Each outfit.....
Price: $450.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1930s-1940s. Original paper doll artwork for a stylish modern woman, "Etta", with twenty (20) outfits, one (1) large matching hat, and one (1) pink fur-lined wrap. Etta's style is very Hollywood glam. Original ink, colored pencil, and watercolor on paper, each outfit with tabs to secure onto the.....
Price: $275.00
Made by Hand, Transformation, Paper Dolls, Overlay, Ethnicity, Metamorphosis
[1860s]. A 3 1/8" somewhat naive watercolor paper doll drawn and cut from pith paper and applied to a plain paper backing. Also includes eight (8) different costumes of various nationalities including Old English, Bohemian, Polish, Circassian, Russian, Italian, Chinese and Prussian. Each in traditional attire with head ware. Each.....
Price: $750.00
Paper Plaything, Pretend Play, Paper with a Secret, Social History, Gender Roles
New York: Henry Heininger Co., 1919. A set of four die-cut wraparound paper dolls with movable arms and eyes. They are the Happy Family - Mr. Al Ways Happy, Mrs. Eve R. Happy, Miss Vera Happy and Little O. So Happy. Each with a rhyming verse beneath their name encouraging.....
Price: $300.00
s. and j. fuller, paper toy book, little fanny
A 15 pp book with original slip case. It is The History of Little Fanny, Exemplified in a Series of Figures. Original date 1811. 8th Ed. Includes six (6) of the seven (7) original costumes. Hats lacking. The head has been replaced with a very good watercolor likeness. Wear on.....
Price: $350.00
Regency Paper Doll and Toy Books
London: S. and J. Fuller, 1811. Eighth edition, a scarce near-complete example of "The History of Little Fanny", a Regency-era paper doll book about a little girl who grows from being "idle" and "vain" to "pious, modest, diligent, and mild". Single vol. (5" by 4"), pp. 15, [3], hand-stitched in.....
Price: $1,200.00
Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Advertising to Children, Premium,
New York, NY: J. & P. Coats, c1895. Includes 5 die-cut paper dolls, 3 with matching costumes and hats. Two additional costumes from the set of 10. Advertising on reverse of all. Original envelope presented by the merchant; marked Series No. 3. Each holds and object. Although designed as individual.....
Price: $115.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Women's History
New York: McLoughlin, 1892. Two-sided printing. 9 1/2" cut paper doll with with five (5) two-sided dresses and four (4) hats With original envelope with directions for making the doll on envelope flap. Not pictured, nor described in Howard.
Price: $150.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Film Star
Sandusky, OH: Stephens Publishing Company, [1946]. This book has two (2) punch out dolls of June Allyson (1917-2006) an American stage, film and television actress with a 'girl next store' image. She is most well known for her parts in films such as Two Girls and A Sailor (1944), and.....
Price: $65.00
Fashion and Costume, Children's Literature, Paper Doll
New York: Toilettes Fashion Company, Aug-05. 34 pp with current fashions for the younger set. Each page incldues various costumes include back views and pattern numbers. Also includes Fashion Hints - Helps for Buy Mothers, A Pretty Improved Girdle, Mothers Corner, Children's Sweaters, a paper doll page with Cecile and.....
Price: $85.00
Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Social History, Boxed Set
Germany: Unknown, c1850s. A 6 1/2" x 4 1/2" paper covered pressed board box with applied hand colored litho cover depicts a group of little girls in an outdoor setting. Applied gilt border decoration ox top. The content includes two (2) identical 4 1/2" two-sided paper dolls of the same.....
Price: $725.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play,
France: Unknown, c 1890s. No. 74350. An embossed die-cut litho on heavy card paper doll or pretend play set. It includes two (2) 8" dolls Sleeping Beauty and Prince Charming. They are shown in scenes as adolescents and young adults. The adolescent scene he sleeps adjacent she on a fainting.....
Price: $900.00
Pretend Play, Paper Dolls, Social History
Germany: c1850. A 7 1/4" litho on heavy stock paper doll with his original stand and eight (8) costumes and seven (7) hats. The costumes and dolls are colored lithograph with eggwash enhancements. His costumes reflect the affluent lifestyle and times of the young boy of the day. They include.....
Price: $650.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Victorian Fashion,Girlhood,Hand-colored Paper Dolls
[Germany?]: 1860s. A lovely 4.5" paper doll depicting a fashionable young woman, housed in her original box with eleven (11) outfits and five (5) hats/hair pieces. There are two copies of the doll itself; both the doll and all of the outfits and hats are two-sided, and the outfits slip.....
Price: $1,500.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Women's History
New York: McLoughlin, c1875. Two-sided printing. 7" cut paper doll with with four (4) two-sided dresses and no hats With original envelope with directions for making the doll on reverse of envelope. From the Series No. 2 - Medium Sized Dolls found in the 1875-76 Catalogue of Toys Books, Paper.....
Price: $215.00
medicine, paper doll, advertising directed a children
Chicago: J. B. Carroll Co, c1900. Two pieces of advertising materials for Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. The first item is a 16 pp (including covers) booklet advertising Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, as well as other products sold by the manufacturer, including Mother Gray's Aromatic Leaf (a.....
Price: $110.00
Advertising to Children, Gender Roles, Promotional Brochure
Minneapolis, MN: Munsingwear, c1917. An uncut 7 fold concertina style flyer with color photographic images of people depicted in their underwear as paper dolls ,each adult with one costume, the children have two each. The costumes closely reflect traditional gender roles --the boys play baseball and "Indians" and the girls.....
Price: $75.00
dollhouse, doll house, paper doll, Paper Toys
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, c1910. My Real Dollhouse is an activity book where each page when cut out and properly folded makes one room of the doll house. Along with the directions the following rooms are included the Kitchen, the Garden, the Play-Room Circus, the Living-Room, the Nursery, the.....
Price: $125.00
Paper dolls, Pretend Play, Childhood Ephemera
An uncut four-fold paper doll set with its original envelope. It is the Furnished Nursery with Several Dolls for Dressing and nice toys for same. It is one of six different designs for the My Smallest Doll's Room. Made in Germany 10300. When uncut measures 3 ¼” x 13 ½”.....
Price: $125.00
McLoughlin Paper Dolls
New York, New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1880s? A medium-sized doll produced by McLoughlin titled "Myra Mild", described by Howard as part of an "attractive series of dolls with wardrobes in the fashion of the day" (p. 104). This example is cut, and appears largely complete; it includes the 6.5" doll.....
Price: $100.00