Antique Dolls Houses

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A Christian Hacker Dolls' House with an Elevator

This house opens from the front and reveals four rooms. On the bottom floor is a room to the right which has an enclosed elevator. (Like a real elevator, you walk into it and it is like a room within itself). It even has a dial above the door to tell what floor you are going to. The interior of the room is very nice with moldings etc.

A crank on the side of the house moves the elevator up!)

The house has a staircase in case the elevator doesn't accommodate the people in this building! The two rooms on the left side of the house are framed out on the walls with nice moldings. The rooms look more formal! You could do a formal parlor and bedroom on the second floor or do it as an "antique shop" where people come to buy pieces!!

There are nice dormer windows on the roof with two chimneys too. There is a balcony on the second floor and quoining on the corners on the front.

The house measurements: 40 ½"tall (to the top of the roof) x 28"w. x 16 1/2 "d.
Circa: 1900
Price: $2750

Gottschalk Dolls' House- Circa 1910

This house has many special architectural features- with paper applied for all the brick and stone work on the front, sides and back of the house. The windows are framed out in wood on the front of the house. Paper windows with the brick work are on the sides of the house. There is a balcony and a porch on the front of the house too which are made of wood with metal railings. A porch on the first level on the right side also has similar railings. The doors are painted green with some lined details. The roof is painted a dark blue and has two very detailed chimneys of brick paper and wood. There is a window on the roof and a large gable with lined brown wood strips. The house opens from the sides which shows the two levels. The interior has all original wallpaper on both sides and there is a staircase on one side.

Measurements: 33"h. x 25-1/2"w. x 14-1/2"d.
Circa: 1910
Price: $2,995

An Exceptional Blue Roof Gottschalk Dolls' House

As you can see from the photos, this house has amazing architectural features- with a tower and high pitched roof, bay windows, carved posts at the entrance, painted lines on windows to signify window panes, and a large decorative piece of unusual architecture that rests just below the roof line and compliments the tower close by. The papers on the exterior of the house are excellent on all three sides. (The back of the house is painted a soft beige or tan). Window trims at the top and below enhance the decoration on the house. Also on the first level, the windows have a curved half circle painted a tan color with the brick color designs. There is a white chimney on the roof.

The interior of the house has all its original wallpapers on the walls and on the floors of the two rooms.

Measurements: 24"h. x 14"w. on a mounted platform and 11"d.
Circa: 1890's
Price: $3500

This dolls' house has an interesting façade that displays a porch on the front and a second floor with windows. A mansard roof provides room for more rooms with windows too. There are two rooms on each floor so with three floors, we have a six room house. There are more windows on the left side of the house. The roof papers are a coral color which resemble shingles with black paper having a border around the edges.

The interior has original wallpapers and floor papers. There are inter-connecting doors between the rooms. The tan color facades on the front and sides displays well with the roof papers and the windows on the front that have shutters.

Measurements: 28"h. x 29"w. x17-1/2"d.
Circa: 1900
Price: $2950

A booklet has been written about this exceptional dolls' house that was sold at Sotheby's auction house in NYC. Several pictures of the interior are shown and described.

The Glass House

As a recent buyer of this house, I'm not familiar with its history or its actual age. The last time I saw this house, it was displayed at Lucy's Dolls' House Shop in Camden, Maine, when I visited a number of years ago. Each time I approach this house in my living room to get a better view, I discover additional openings or details I hadn't noticed before. All of the ornamentation is carved wood, painted gold. The carving work is so amazing I have photographed each of these fine pieces that you see painted gold. Incidentally, since the back of the house is made exactly like the front façade of the house, one enters through the front door (first floor) or you'd enter through the same door in the back. The side panels of windows pull out to enter the second floor on both the right side and left side.

Beveled glass windows are found throughout the house. There are long narrow ones, some have wooden frames over the windows that look like they are paneled. There are even some square windows!

The roof is framed in dark wood that matches the rest of the house. Glass slanted panels are set in –one long one in the front and back. The sides have smaller panels of slanted glass. The very top of the house has a flat board to support the grand statue of a woman holding a pelican! The last photo shows her foot resting on a ball. The carving is just the finest carving I have ever seen with the detail of her hair and facial features!

Please feel free to contact me for any other questions about this outstanding house. antiquedh@comcast.net

Measurements: 27- ½"h.; add 10" for the carved lady on top of the roof x 33" width x 17" depth.

Circa: Not known

Price: $6500

The Spanish Dolls' House - Circa 1880

There are three floors with 8 rooms. They include the first floor- sewing room, dining room, and kitchen. The second floor has a large banquet room for the soldiers and a parlor. The third floor has a bedroom, sitting room and a chapel. The house measures: 47" tall for the three floors; the base adds 16"; the railing at the top is 4-1/2" and the cupola on top of the roof is removable and that is 20" tall. The house is 50" wide. Price: $10,000

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