Date: Fri 20-Feb-1998

By Previous Employees

Published: Aug 11, 1999 12:00 am

Publication: Ant

Author: JUDYC

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Rare Jumeau At Theriault's

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ANNAPOLIS, MD. -- Four auctions held by Theriault's grossed more than $1.8

million: The Beautiful Jumeau on the evening of January 9 consisted of more

than 200 lots of only Jumeau dolls and accessories; Cotillion on January 10

offered over 250 antique dolls, teddy bears, and ephemera; and two auctions

conducted simultaneously on January 11 featured more than 750 lots.

One of those sales, What Dolls Wore Before, offered a collection of vintage

antique doll clothing, and the other was a Discovery Day sale.

Between the four auctions, some 1,200 lots were sold. Some 400 on-site and

absentee bidders represented 15 different countries and 49 of the 50 states.

Highlighting The Beautiful Jumeau was a rare 27-inch French bisque size 12

bebe from the "200" series by Jumeau, originally designed for use with

automata by Leopold Lambert, and, subsequently, in this variation with a

classic bebe body. This particular model is one of the "missing" numbers that

appeared in the Jumeau inventory, yet had not been found. The doll brought

$66,000, beyond twice its pre-sale estimate.

A French bisque first period Jumeau bebe, known as "Portrait," sold for

$53,000 (est $20/30,000); a rare "7/EJ" bebe with a signed wooden body

realized $16,500 (est $8/11,000); and a black bisque bebe "Depose 8" sold for

$16,000 (est $10/14,000).

Foremost in the Cotillion auction was a rare six-piece ensemble of American

cloth storybook characters from Alice in Wonderland by Martha Chase. Included

in the complete set were Alice, Queen of Hearts, Tweedledee and Tweedledum,

the Mad Hatter, and the Frog Footman, and all sold to a longtime cloth-doll

collector for $67,000.

Four German all-bisque Kewpie figurines each featured a Kewpie riding

different animals. A Kewpie on a toy riding horse sold for $5,500, and a

Kewpie on a toy riding puppy sold for $5,300, both inside the pre-sale

estimates. Topping their pre-sales were a Kewpie on a toy riding goat, which

sold for 5,100, and a Kewpie riding a "real" stork, which sold for $5,000,

over twice the pre-sale.

Antique French bisque dolls included a 14-inch bebe by Leon Casimir Bru, which

sold for $20,000 (est $13/18,000) and a petite model of the "Bebe Gigoteur" by

Jules Steiner, which sold for $4,200, almost twice the pre-sale.

Cotillion also presented German character dolls such as a bisque child known

as the "AT-Kestner" in an antique mariner costume, which sold for $17,000, the

high end of the estimate. A rare pensive-faced German bisque "Marie" by Kammer

and Reinhardt with glass eyes was sold for $13,000, beyond her pre-sale

estimate. A rare prototype character, 102, "Karl" from the Kammer and

Reinhardt art series, sold for $16,500.

A group of early carved wooden miniatures of people and a marketplace realized

$11,000, over twice the pre-sale estimate. The most surprising lot of the

auction was a Russian wedding costume for an early French bebe which, though

estimated at $2/2,500, sold for $11,400.

The What Dolls Wore Before auction featured more than 450 lots of antique doll

costumes and accessories and was highlighted by an ivory satin two-piece gown

in its original presentation box, which sold for $27,000, over five times the

$4/500 estimate. A blue cotton chambray princess-style dress sold for $2,400,

and a maroon and flowered ivory silk jacket dress with floral patterned ivory

silk full length lapels sold for $1,900 (est $800/1,000).

For information, 410/224-3655.

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