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Circa: 2009
Manufacturer: Gold Horse Publishing
Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. The landmark collection of the late Margaret Hartshorn of Asheville, North Carolina features fine rare wooden, paper-mache, parian and porcelain dolls of the early 19th century. Growing up in a cottage near by the extravagant Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, Mrs. Hartshorn was early-on influenced by a love of old things. "The rare, early and unexpected", a phrase she coined in her quest for dolls, was an apt definition of the dolls in her private collection. Early lady dolls by KPM Meissen, KPM Berlin, Royal Copenhagen, Dressel & Kister, Schlaggenwald, Kling, Simon and Halbig and other early makers earned a place of honor on her shelves, as well as paper mache ladies with coiffures too extravagant to imagine. Her tastes ranged from the superbly refined KPM gentleman acquired at the 1851 International Exhibition in London, to the flamboyant glass-eyed lady with sculpted vibrant Scottish tam, to the plain and simple carved wooden doll heads by a Maine fisherman. An enthusiastic member of UFDC (United Federation of Doll Clubs), Mrs.
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| Hartshorn entered her dolls in competition, and collectors will be astounded at the blue ribbons that so many of her dolls were awarded, some multiple times. So famous, in fact, did many of her dolls become that her pet names for them were legendary; there was The Bead Lady, and there was Poor Adelaide. Too, influenced by her artistic background, she collected a fine small group of miniature paintings of ladies, with coiffures and fashions that enhance the style of her dolls; these, too are presented in the Friday auction. 350 full-color photographs. 2009 |
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