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Spectacular English Dolls' House - Circa 1900
A Spectacular English Dolls' House -
Circa 1900
People who know me, know I
love big dolls' houses! I also love details like fireplaces, elaborate
staircases, built in cupboards, interior paneled doors, windows
that really work by going up and down, great architectural
features-like bay windows, balconies and great front entrances! Well, this
house has it all, including its history! It stands 66" tall and is 55" wide and 22" deep. I think my
favorite thing in the house is the staircase that goes from the front
entrance up to the fourth floor! The hallways are wonderful in that each
floor has a landing and like a real house, it has newel posts on each
landing and all the balusters are turned and are all intact!
As you come through the entrance, you see
stain glass transoms around the doorway with a staircase. If you go to the
left through a paneled door, you come into the dining room with ceilings of
17". Across from you is a large Silber-Fleming fireplace (which all the
rooms have, except the kitchen which has an Evans- Cartwright stove built
in), there are large bay windows and plenty of room for furniture. The
present furniture is French with seats in green leather to match the
wallpaper. If you take a right in the hall, a door opens to the library!
As we go upstairs to the second floor, we can
enter the grand parlor all papered in a stripped soft mauve with ebony
Boulle furnishings with upholstery matching and a grand fireplace with bay
windows. In the hallway, is a where you will see an Austrian bronze parrot
perched on a stand looking out the window! The room on the other side of the
hall is the bedroom all done in blue stripped paper with the large fireplace
and bay windows. (The rooms are nice and big to furnish)
Now we go up the stairs to the third
floor and here we have a kitchen with an open cupboard filled with treen
dishes, plates of food scattered everywhere and a big built in Evans and
Cartwright stove! The kitchen is packed with rare and wonderful pieces! As
we go out into the hall again, we see a large linen closet built right into
the wall and so conveniently next to the bathroom which has a built in old
tub and toilet. A separate basin appears near the window! As we go down the
hall we enter the pink paneled door that takes us into the nursery. The pink
flowered wallpaper on the walls only highlights the corner tin fireplace!
What a splendid design!
Now we go up the stairs to another hall
with built in cupboards with a dormer window above. To the left is the
billiard room with a splendid antique pool table with all the necessary
equipment and would you believe there is a lampshade on the ceiling that
looks just like it should be in a billiard room. A dormer window is on the
back wall. Across the hall is the child's play room. Every conceivable toy
is here with a canopy bed for a child!
What a house! Although it stands in the
center of my doll room and must be entered from the back, it still has the
charm of a real dollhouse played with by children. It is being sold
unfurnished and more photos are available.
Measurements: 66"h. x 55"w.x 22"d.
Circa: 1900
Price: Inquiries welcomed
For further information, please email me at -antiquedh@comcast.net |
