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 on 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.  

Doll-A-Day 2023 354: Cloth Doll

  Number 354 is this cute little girl.

She's only about 7 inches tall. She has a pressed cloth face, and stockingette arms and legs.

Her face looks to be hand painted. Her dress has faux straps across the chest, and real lacing.

Her sleeves and apron are a very fine cotton. She has tiny socks, with stitching detail along the tops, and felt accents.

And little felt shoes.

Her legs appear to be stitched up the fronts.

  She has a beautiful face. I'm not sure what her hair is made of. It's shiny, and made into two little braids. Her felt hat frames it all nicely.

I assume those felt pieces are meant to be feathers.

  I would guess her to be from the 40's. From the looks of her, she's possibly meant to be Alpine/Swiss or German. Anybody know what her costume is?

  That's 354. Check out today's other posts as we try to catch up for the end of the year!

Doll-A-Day 2023 #346: Black Forest Lotte Sievers-Hahn Doll

   Today's doll is a cute Lotte Sievers-Hahn doll.

I got her at a doll show a while back. If I am recalling correctly, she was an amazing price, so I couldn't say no. I love Lotte Sievers-Hahn dolls. They have sweet, hand carved faces, with simple features.

  This particular girl represents a girl from The Black Forest area of Germnay.

  The dolls also have hand carved arms and legs. On the original dolls, at least, the arms are attached to the body with a piece of leather.

That allows their arms to be moved up and down, but they can't hold a pose.

They have wooden legs too...

...with flat feet, so they can stand up on their own.

They're jointed at the hips, and can usually sit down, but this girl is having a problem with that.

 

  You might have seen my other small ones this size, (about 4 or 5 inches tall), HERE, or my larger ones, (about 8 inches tall), HERE. You can read more about Lotte Sievers-Hahn and her dolls in either of those posts, so I won't bore you with repeating it here.

  See you tomorrow for another doll.

Doll-A-Day 2023 #313: New Caco Girl!

   Today we're looking at the last doll I got at the miniature show. She's a Caco!

She's very cute, and totally different from my other Caco girls. She's my first brunette.

I like the fabric her dress is made of. And look at that tiny rick rack trim.

  She's the same size as Kay. Speaking of Kay, normally this girl would make her debut in the dollhouse, but that can't happen right now. I can't really pull out the other dolls right now either. So some day she'll get to meet Kay, and Jeffrey, and the gang.

  Like all Caco dolls she has cloth wrapped legs and arms.

She's not super old, because she has plastic hands and feet, and not lead ones.

  Like the Erna Meyer dolls, this sweet girl only cost $5.

   I think she will be called Sue.

  That's the doll for today. Happy Thanksgiving for tomorrow, and we'll see another doll then.

Doll-A-Day 2023 #312: Another Erna Meyer Girl

   I got this girl when I got yesterday's Erna Meyer girl, at the miniature show. 

  She has the classic hand painted Erna Meyer face.

Her pinafore looks a bit cheaply done for an Erna Meyer doll. It's cute though.

  The dealer looked at her as the mom, and the other girl as the little girl. I suppose that's because of the size difference. This one is a little bit taller. But compared with my two grown ladies by Erna Meyer, these two are both kids.

  The hands on these dolls are stockingette over wire that has been made into a loop. She also has pastic feet, which means she was made after the mid 60's.

  She has Princess Leia buns!

  I got the two Erna Meyer dolls for $5 each, which is a really good price. I prefer this one to the other one. She's very cute.

  We're getting ready for Thanksgiving here in the United States. So I'll be pretty busy tomorrow, shopping and prepping food. But we'll still be looking at a doll. It's the last doll I got at the miniature show. See you then.