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 #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 #339: A Little Wooden Girl

   I got today's doll at a doll show. She was very cheap, and I thought she was cute. She's made of wood, and jointed. 

  She has a nice face. It's quite detailed and well painted, especially with the rest of her being so simply made.

Look at those eyes.

Her hair is attached in a swirl.

She's only about three inches tall.

Don't mind my horrible nails.

Her arms and legs are attached with wire.

So she can sit and lift her arms. 

  She has a cute homemade skirt, and simple plastic shoes. When I got her she was wearing a sparkly Kelly Princess top. She needs a simple cotton blouse that will match her skirt. And a nice simple cottage to live in. That would be fun to make and furnish. I see her in a little log cabin maybe. Or a corn cob house like Miss Hickory.

  That's the doll for today. Make sure to also check out today's Twelve Days of Tammy World post, and post #340, also posted today.

Doll-A-Day 2023 #221: Wooden Dollhouse Family

   Today's doll is a whole set! It's this wooden dollhouse family

  I have talked about Bin Stores before. We always go on the day when everything is $1, or even 25 cents. Not too long ago we were there, looking for some things to help Emma with her wedding plans, when I spotted a dollhouse doll in the bin. I got excited to have spotted a doll find, and began looking for more dolls. I dug around in the bin and managed to find six dolls altogether: a grandma, a grandpa, what i thought were two kids, a boy and a girl, and two dolls, that. although they were the same size, one must be a toddler and the other one a baby. I kept digging around trying to find the parents. I never found any more though, and afterward, looking at the ones I did find, I realized that the two I thought were the kids were the same size as the grandparents. (And they had to be grandparents, because they have grey hair. This is the doll world.) 

So, they weren't the kids, they were the parents. The dad doesn't look like a grown up, with his bowl haircut. (But then, even Moe Howard was a dad.)

  The weird thing was, a few weeks later we went to that same bin store again, and I found two more dolls that matched the set, and they turned out to be the kids! A boy and a girl. Whether they were there before and I just didn't find them, or they had just been the only two lost out of another set, I don't know. But I have reunited the family. And now I can see the size difference between the mom and the daughter for example.

  So what are these dolls like? Well, they have wooden ball heads, and square or rectangular wooden bodies.

They can stand very well on their own...

...except for the babies of course. The toddler is more like the other dolls in that she has hands and feet sticking out of her clothes, unlike the baby, who has footie pajamas on. But she doesn't have the wooden feet that allow the others to stand.

The baby of course is just a small stuffed doll, and meant only to be cuddled or laying down.

The arms and legs are wired cord, so they are bendable. That means the dolls can sit... 

...hold the babies...

...play. skip, dance, run...

and have a bit of life to them. The arms are obviously one piece, because when you move one arm, the other one wants to move too. You can move them independently though, if you hold the other one down when you move the one.

The clothes aren't removable. They seem like they would be, but they can't be pulled over their heads.

   The dolls with hair, and that's everyone but the baby, have thread/yarn hair, except for Grampa, who has sort of faux fur hair. Grama has a braid in her hair.

Mom and daughter have ponytails. Mom has one, and the daughter has two.

But the daughter has a loop in back from one side to the other.

Which isn't that important, but is a tip off to the fact that maybe these dolls aren't so well made. If you look, there is some gloppy glue holding the feet on, and the cord on the sides of the bodies.

  I'm not sure I'd trust the feet to stay on, and they could be a choking hazard to very small kids. The bendable limbs are also a bit stiff and might not be that easy to bend for little hands.

  There are also some paint mistakes. Grama has a spot on her forehead, and the brother has a streak on his chin.

 

I actually found this same family on Amazon. You can see them HERE. They cost about $12 for the set, which is pretty cheap. 

  Those are the dolls for today. See you tomorrow.