Happy Saint Patrick's Day

   Happy St. Patrick's Day. 

I was going to take a new St. Patrick's Day picture this year, but I misplaced Tammy World's hat. So this picture is from 10 years ago. I figured that's a long time, and you won't remember it. I'm not one of those people who make a big fuss over St. Patrick's Day, but I like to take part!  There will be a new post about my doll show purchases soon, as well as another doll-centric post on somewhere else I went recently. 

Doll Show Haul Part 1: Lotte Sievers Hahn Boy and a Lovely Lady

   As usual, I am behind in things. I haven't shown you what I got at the doll show yet. I didn't get many things, since I was trying to be good, both with money and space. I was trying to make it all the way around the show before I bought anything, because I had a limited budget and you never know what you might find farther on. (Of course, you risk it not being there when you go back for it too.)  But I found this beautiful little guy for only $10. I had to snap him up!

  He's a Lotte Sievers Hahn doll. You may have seen my others HERE, HERE, and HERE. This guy is a different size from any of my others. Most of the Lotte dolls I have are 5 inches tall. I also have two 8 inch ladies. This guy is somewhere in between, at about 6 inches.

  Lotte Sievers Hahn dolls are made in Germany. The company is very well known for their carved wooden nativities. Like the other Lotte Sievers Hahn dolls I have, he's carved from limewood, with hand oil painted eyes and mouth.

  He originally had a hat. I don't mind him being hatless though. I can always make him a felt hat. 

  His clothes are felt and his hair is what I would call embroidery floss.

    His clothes are made of felt.

 

    The arms on these dolls lift up, but can't hold the pose. 

The originals had strips of leather that connected the arms to the shoulders. I don't know what they use these days. Yes, they are still making these dolls. While my others are probably from the 1940's, I think this guy is recent.

    They have 'mitten hands'.

  Their legs are pin jointed at the hips, so they can move their legs and sit down.

  Isn't he sweet?! I fell in love with these dolls the first time I saw them on line. That's when I bought the batch of little ones. The dealer I got this one from always has very beautiful and interesting dolls. They're mostly very expensive, and often museum quality dolls. She had this little guy, and two Lotte Sievers Hahn finger puppet girls. The girls were tiny, and looked brand new. They were only $10 each too, and I would have loved to have had them. But as I said, I was being good. I had a limited budget for the day, so I had to be choosey too.  

  After I got this guy I didn't get anything for quite a way around the show. I looked, but passed things I liked. I was trying to see everything before I spent my money. That's a good idea in one way, but one the other hand, if there's something you can't live without, you'd better get it, because it may not be there by the time you get back to it. The next thing I bought was quite a way farther on, and it was only a dollar. It's a pretty antique real baby dress.

  Don't ask me what I'm going to do with all these antique baby dresses I keep buying. I probably have some dolls they'll fit.

  The next thing I bought I actually passed and got on my second trip around, not long before I left. I went all the way around, having only spent $13. (I paid $2 for a doll so I could steal the jeans for Tammy World.) Then I decided to go back for one doll, and all my reserve began to crumble. Here's the lady that started it all.

  I just loved  all the colours and her outfit, and her cute face.

  Look at those chubby cheeks!

  Her hair is still nice, but the feather in her hat has seen better days.

  I just kept thinking how much I liked her, and would I regret not getting her? I also kept remembering a doll from a previous show that I didn't get, and how I wished I had. In looking back to find a picture of that doll in an older post, I found that she was THIS doll! Not even one like her, but. her The bent apron corner clinches that. This is her. She was the one that got away, and I caught her this time!

  She's quite old. I think she belonged to the dealer's mother. I might be remembering that wrong. They had tables full of travel dolls, from all over the world. They were trying to sell the collection. They were selling the dolls for very cheap prices. Some were worth much more than they were charging, but the wife said she didn't care. They just wanted to get rid of them.

 

She has stuffed felt arms, and they do move.

And her felt shoes come off!

  She's possibly a  Piemonte doll. Does anybody know? 

Well, that's it for this time. I'll show you what else I gave into in an upcoming post.  

First Doll Show of the Year!

   Recently I went to my first doll show of the year. I tried to be good. I don't need more dolls right now, and we have loads of things that require money to be done. But Ken gave me some money to be used at the show for birthday presents if I wanted, because my birthday is fats approaching. I was comparitively really good. I spent almost the whole show having spent only $11. Then it turned to $13 when I bought a $2 doll just to steal the clothes for Tammy World. (Hey, she has to get something, right? At least she thinks she does.) The show was almost over, and I decided to go back and buy one $10 item that I knew I'd regret not getting. But then I bought another $10 thing. At least everything I had bought was small and fit in my little canvas bag with the blog logo and Tammy World's picture on it. Plus I thought I could sell that last $10 item to help recoup the money I had spent.  And then, once the floodgates were broken, the rest of my money flowed out, and on a big thing. I tell myself that it was a super good price, and since it's never removed from box I can always sell it. I'm thinking about it. I would love to keep it, but money and space are telling me otherwise.

  I'll show you what I bought in upcoming posts. This post is just show pictures. And there aren't nearly as many as usual. After that person yelled at me in the comments here on the blog, for taking pictures of her dolls, I felt weird about even asking if I could take pictures. I get my feelings hurt very easily, and being upset over something actually makes me physically sick. No kidding. It always has. I wasn't sure I was going to make it in the period right after the fire. I felt awful all the time, my chest hurt and I felt nauseous constantly.) So I took as few pictures as I could, asked every time, except for the lady with the museum quality dolls. She always lets me take pictures, and she was busy with a customer. I did buy something from her this time too. It was the first thing I bought that day. She had a helper this time, so that's who took my money and bagged up my purchase. But no fear. I went to an antique mall the other day, and got more doll pictures than I got at the show! 

 I think I figured out who complained. She was the only person at the show that day who wouldn't let me take pictures. We had a long talk, about taking pictures, about having red hair, (She said the same thing I always say, that red hair is such a huge part of your identity that when it isn't red any more it feels strange. She chooses to dye hers though. And she thought I was a blonde! What?!), and various things. I still don't understand what the big deal is about 'her' dolls being seen online. Why does that matter? It's not like she sells one of a kind dolls. Lots of people have the same dolls. She doesn't own the copyright on the designs or anything. Although, she did make a point about some people stealing the pictures and trying to sell dolls they don't really have. Of course, that doesn't hurt her. But anyway, we're friendly now. Maybe eventually I can get her to understand why it could actually be to her benefit to have her dolls shown on the blog. More likely I will just not ask her any more and just move on. She had the unique Hansel and Gretel dolls I talked about in this post:

 https://planetofthedolls.blogspot.com/2023/08/doll-day-2023-234-hansel-and-gretel.html

  Below you'll see pictures from the stall of a lady who does own the copyright on the designs of her dolls, because she designs and makes them herself. She is always perfectly happy to have her dolls photographed. She has something exciting coming up in her stuff too, but we'll get to that. 

  And now, on to the show.

  One of the first things I spotted was this doll and her baby. She was laying in a box because she hadn't even been put out yet., for lack of room. I absolutely loved her, but she was out of my price range.

 

She even has her own little chair to sit on.

   She bears a lot of similarities to this doll I own: 

https://planetofthedolls.blogspot.com/2014/01/doll-day-17-embroidered-cloth-doll.html

Look at the baby!

She has some stains on her legs. I think she was priced way too high, because of that, and especially since the dealer didn't know anything about her. But if he sells her for that, more power to him I guess.

  This wooden Boneka boy was nice. He could definitely hang out with Hitty and her friends. And by the way, my Hitty book, (Reviewed here: https://planetofthedolls.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-doll-book-of-month-club-hitty-her.html),  survived the fire.

This is a nice group of older ladies.

I'm not sure this poodle isn't real hair. Ug!

 

This little guy was cute, but expensive. I believe he's a Kish doll, but I don't know his name.

This little dollhouse scale diorama of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huckleberry Finn was made by an artist in the 1950's.

  I wish I could tell you more about the antique dolls, but that's not where my knowledge lies.

 

  I do know this one. This is an Effanbee Bubbles doll. 

  Here are some cute kids.

  

  A bunch of great dolls here. I think the two top, right are Steiff. My favourites are in the middle row.

  Some more really interesting ones. Look at those faces.

  Love the cloth faced dolls. Look at the lady with the baby.

  The velvet Nora Wellings doll, (Top row, third from left.), reminds me how much I regret not buying that one at this same show back in 2020.

 

  Dollhouse dolls.

  I like the girl in pink and blue, the lady in blue with the bonnet, the ethnic doll next to her, and the Eloise on the far right.

  There was a dealer with two tables, who had the most Tammy and family dolls I've ever seen together in one place. They were a bit high priced, and I suspect the guy selling them didn't know anything about them really. Maybe he was selling a collection he got by default, like a death in the family or something, and he pieced things together. There were Pos'n Tammy dolls, wearing regular Tammy clothes, and regular Tammy, squeezed into Pos'n Tammy's stretch jumpsuit. That was kind of painful to see, because I knew the suit was going to be stretched out of shape and size by the time it ever got off that doll. Do you ever see stuff like that and just want to tell the dealer, "Change that doll's clothes! For the love of Mike!"?

Bottom row Tammy is wearing Disney Aladdin's pants.

   This girl had some very penetrating eyes.

  Ladies with tiny heads.

But I liked the kid in the middle.

  I thought I'd be able to read the sign with the maker's name on it in my picture, but sorry! I can't make it out!

  Pretty girl in blue. She's a Madame Alexander "McGuffey Ana" doll. "McGuffey" referred to the McGuffey Readers", reading books used in schools in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The dolls were made for quite a few years, and came in a lot of different outfits, but I think they were originally based on Illustrations in the McGuffey Readers.

  This amazing Baby Snooks, or Fanny Brice doll was in such great condition, that initially I thought she was a reproduction. She was original though, even her tag.

  A gaggle of Blythes. I love the boy, and the girl with teeth!

  This Alice doll tempted me, but I held firm!

  Then there was this Alice. She's  Good Kruger doll. I still held firm. It was a bit easier with her, because she was $50.

  There was a dealer there who I have seen before at shows. In fact, I featured her dolls once before in a doll show post. Her business is called Mysfit Dolls. The founder, Myah, designs and 3D prints her own fully jointed resin dolls. They come in various sizes, but you know I love the tinys! Look at this little guy.

 

  

   The dolls aren't printed in a regular 3D printer the way I imagined it. They are built up somehow of liquid resin as I understand, and are so smoothly made they need no sanding.

 The dolls can be bought clothed and painted, or completely naked and unpainted, so you can customize them yourself. There are also wig caps with attached wigs for sale, so you don't have to fuss with getting the wig to stay on the head. You can just pop the whole head cap off and switch hair!

This girl is so small, but able to sit in her curled up position.

Their faces are hand painted.

  Her little legs are curled up beneath her.

  But Myah is testing out some new, extremely tiny jointed dolls! They are an inch and a half tall!

 

 And still fully posable!

They have inset eyes too! That tiny, with inset eyes! I want!

They were so small my camera was having trouble focusing on them. 

The one on the left doesn't have eyes in, but the one on the right has inset eyes.

  Here's Myah's business card. You can also check out her website by clicking on the link above.

  Myah is very proud of her dolls. She's trying new stuff out all the time. The inch and half dolls are still in the testing stage. She's looking for just the right stringing material that will make them posable, without being too loose, and that will last over time. 

  That's all. I told you I didn't take many pictures. Soon I'll show you what I bought.