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 #254: Hungarian Doll...Probably

   Today's doll, also from one of the recent doll shows, is this pretty little miss.

I got her from my friend Casey's table, for only $1! She needs her face cleaned, but otherwise she's perfect.

She has such beautiful embroidery and a cute face. She reminds me of the much larger Hungarian doll I have, that you may have seen HERE. This doll is much smaller, at only 8 or 9 inches tall.

  Her face is sort of a crepe like material, but her arms are sort of a thick stockingette, like the Hungarian Matyo dolls I showed you HERE. 

Since those are all Hungarian, I'm going to guess this girl is Hungarian too.

She's holding a wire, which I'm guessing used to have flowers on it.

Her outfit is beautiful, with loads of flowers embroidered all over.

  From the back you can see how pleated her dress is.

She has a sip, and cotton bloomers.

Her little shoes have ribbon rosettes on the front.

  They're backless, like the shoes on the first doll I mentioned.

The whole upper part of her dress is embroidered, along with her apron.

  

The neck of her dress has some delicate lace. She's wearing a tiny necklace. I don't know what her hair is made if, but it feels like human hair.

Even the back of her dress is embroidered. and look at that beautiful lace. 

The apron again.

Her hat has embroidery all over it.

  I would love to clean her face, but I'm afraid to. It's all she would need really, to be perfect again, besides the easy job of replacing the flower in her hand. Still, she'll look nice next to the other dolls I mentioned. If anybody know exactly what kind of doll she is, let me know in the comments.

  See you again tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 2023 #92: A Beautiful Souvenir Doll and Happy Easter!

  For those of you who celebrate Easter, I hope you're enjoying the day. As for Tammy World, she thought she was going to have to do Easter in a borrowed Penny Brite shirt and a pair of leggings I (badly) made from a pair of Dollar Tree socks. 

That's all she's had here at Emma's, except for her veggiesaurus shirt and black pants, and the nightgown I got on a Skipper from Goodwill.

  I can barely get Ken to find my clothes at the house, (and only this week got my short sleeved shirts from the house), let alone find Tammy's clothes! Clothes in Tammy's size are hard to find, especially since she's now using the super skinny, but articulated, Hogwarts Heroes Hermione body. So I was forced to get a pair of socks from Dollar Tree and try to turn them into leggings. There are vague intentions to make a sweater too. But when this was deemed not good enough for Easter, I dug through some clothes that came from the house in some doll stuff, and sorted out a Penny Brite shirt, and a skirt I thought would fit Tammy. She's me as a kid, so she doesn't like having to wear a skirt, but beggars can't be choosers. I also had to buy her some new hair elastics while I was at Dollar Tree. Hers popped, and her hair was looking a mess. I had saved some elastics from a doll I opened, but I don't know where I put them now. I have plenty at home, but if I send Ken to root through my desk drawer, he will never get it closed again. There's a lot of stuff in there, and it's fit together like a puzzle. He'd never get it put back together. So anyway, she looks a lot better now.

She still only has her tennis shoes, so she's in her socks, (At least they've been washed recently!), but she did want to wish you all a happy Easter.

  My autofocus didn't want to focus on both Tammy's face, and her message, so you get one or the other, I'm afraid!

  We are going to have Ivy with us, so we will enjoy being with her. She has to leave this evening, as she has to be at work in Indiana tomorrow. So, short visit, but better than nothing. I spent part of yesterday making about three dozen curried eggs, which took ages to peel. I spent the time finishing watching "M", which I started rewatching weeks ago. I also photographed some dolls when I finished. We'll see them soon. But today's doll is this lady I found at a Goodwill.

She a souvenir type doll in a native folk costume of some sort.

  It used to be my favourite Goodwill, but it hasn't been lately. I did get excited to find this doll though. She's the larger version of the dolls I love that Ivy and I have, that I posted about HERE and HERE. In fact, she has the same face, and the exact same boots as my smaller doll, and her skirt is made of the exact same fabric as my doll's skirt!

New doll...

...small doll. The bigger one could be her mom!

New doll...

...small doll!

New doll...

...small doll! Trust me. It's the same fabric.

The new doll is a lot taller than the one I've had for a while. My small girl is about 6 inches tall, while the new lady is about 12 inches tall if you include her hat.

  And speaking of hats, the new lady has quite an elaborate one.

Beads on top, and beads in front.

Lots of ribbon.

A huge ribbon on the back of the hat, that reaches to her waist.

Lots of beads.

Ribbon in the back.

The beads in front are strung and woven through the lace trim.

Her whole outfit is pretty extravagant.

Lots of fringey stuff.

 

The fringes on her crossed shawl thingy are various colours.

A bead in her bodice.

Big puffy sleeves. And look at the lace,

  I don't know what country her clothes represent. My world traveling friend Helga may be able to help with this one. In trying to figure it out I think she may be...Hungarian? The red boots also suggest Poland or Ukraine.

She is wearing a beautiful apron too.

   She has a necklace, but it only goes part of the way around her neck.

   

Her face is pressed over some sort of form, and obviously hand painted.

  I'm not sure what her hair is made of. Maybe silk thread?

  One difference between her and her smaller counterpart is, the small doll has mitten hands, while this lady has individual fingers.

Her nails have even been painted on.

  I didn't even check to see if her arms bend. (I have a couple of  Hungarian dolls that are made similarly, and their arms do bend.) I know the legs of these dolls are never jointed or bendable.

  I'm just really pleased to have found her. She was marked $3.99, which isn't bad. I'm cheap though, so I was pleased to find out she was half price! So I paid $2 for her, and I think I got a deal.

  Tomorrow we'll see another doll I found the same day, that I didn't bring back with me, but I wish I could have.