Fine Dolls, Bears & Automata Fine Trains, Toys & Soldiers Wednesday 4 December 2013 at 1pm Thursday 5 December 2013 at 11am Oxford 83 84 114 115 Fine Dolls, Teddy Bears & Juvenalia Wednesday 4 December 2013 at 1pm Fine Trains, Toys, Diecast & Soldiers Thursday 5 December 2013 at 11am Oxford Bonhams Enquiries Sale Number: 20915 The following symbol is used Banbury Road Dolls and Teddy bears to denote that VAT is due on the hammer price and buyer’s Shipton on Cherwell Rachel Gotch Catalogue: £15 premium Kidlington +44 (0)208 963 2838 [email protected] Oxford OX5 1JH Customer Services † VAT 20% on hammer price www.bonhams.com Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm and buyer’s premium Toys, Trains & Lead Soldiers +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Leigh Gotch * VAT on imported items at Viewing +44 (0)208 963 2839 Please see back of catalogue a preferential rate of 5% on Monday 2 December [email protected] 9am to 4.30pm for important notice to bidders hammer price and the prevailing rate on buyer’s premium Tuesday 3 December Soldier consultant Illustrations W 9am to 4.30pm James Opie These lots will be removed to Front cover: Wednesday 4 December +44 (0)208 963 2836 Bonhams Park Royal Warehouse 9am to 1pm (Dolls) [email protected] 62 – 114 – 115 – 382 – 386 – 389 after the sale. 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Fergus Lyons, Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, Sale Information A4095 Bicester Shipton on Cherwell Shipton Rd Banbury Rd A4095 Woodstock Oxford Rd A4260 Upper Campsfield Rd Oxford and A40 A44 Airfield Oxford Kidlington By Rail: Oxford train station Bids Shipping Offices Pictures +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Shipping Information (Excluding Alicia Rogers +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Book Sales) Winchester Lizzie Hill To bid via the internet please visit Unless you wish to use your own The Red House www.bonhams.com shipping company, please contact Hyde Street Books either of the below: Winchester John Walwyn-Jones Payments Hants Mailboxes Etc. (Small Items Only) SO23 7DX Jewellery Buyers +44 (0) 1962 862 515 266 Banbury Road, Frances Noble +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 1962 865 166 fax Tessa Parry +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Oxford, OX2 7DL +44 (0) 1865 514 655. 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[email protected] Contents Fine Dolls, Teddy Bears and Juvenalia: 4th December at 1pm Subject Lot Numbers Teddy Bears & Soft Toys 1 - 31 Juvenalia and rocking Horses 32 -41 Dolls Houses and Miniatures 42 - 58 Pin-cushion dolls and bisque figures 59 - 61 Automata 62 – 82 Early Dolls 83 – 113 French Dolls 114 – 152 Lenci Dolls 153 - 199 Cloth and Later Dolls 200 – 211 German Dolls 212 - 277 Fine Trains, Toys & Diecast, Toy Soldiers and Figures including Lucotte: 5th December at 11am Live Steam & Electric locomotives & Models 280 - 295 Trains Gauge I and Larger 296 - 309 Trains Gauge O including Hornby 310 – 357 Trains OO Gauge 358 - 379 Tinplate, Disney & Miscellaneous Toys 380 - 424 Meccano Toys 425 - 431 Dinky Toys 432 - 478 Matchbox Toys 479 - 497 Corgi & Scale Model Ships 498 - 507 Britains Toy Soldiers & Their Competitors 1893-1918 1001 - 1034 Britains Toy Soldiers 1919 – 1941 1035 - 1083 Britains 1945 – 1966 1084 - 1111 Britain's & Other Hollowcast Civilian Figures 1111A - 1134 Courtenay Medieval Knights 1135 – 1140 Flat & Semi-Flat Figures 1141 - 1150 Toy Fleets, German & Other Solidcast Figures 1151 – 1172 Lucotte 1173 – 1289 CBG Mignot 1290 – 1305 Metayer Figures 1306 – 1310 Composition Figures, Tinplate Vehicles & Guns 1311 – 1325 Britains & Other Toy Soldiers 1326 - 1385 Fine Dolls, Teddy Bears & Automata | 3 1 Teddy Bears and Soft Toys 1 5 A rare set of nine Steiff bear skittles, circa 1908 White mohair Steiff Teddy bear, circa 1909 All standing on a turned wooden base with pole, the brown burlap The straw filled bear with black boot button eyes, brown stitched nose, kingpin with black boot button eyes and nose, chain from nose to pole mouth and claws, swivel head and jointed at shoulders and hips, hump and wearing a red felt jacket with gold stitches and crown with gold to back, elongated arms and large feet, felt paw pads and button to left thread and spangles, (lacks button), the remaining eight skittles in brown ear, (mohair worn in places, some bald patches, nose stitching worn, burlap with boot button eyes, nose and red felt tongue, with chain from repair to tummy seam and pads, hole to wrist), 51cm (20in) tall. nose and seven with button to left ear, (all in good condition, some small £1,000 - 1,500 €1,200 - 1,800 US$1,600 - 2,400 holes to kingpin red jacket), Kingpin 28cm (11in) tall. £2,000 - 3,000 €2,400 - 3,500 US$3,200 - 4,800 6 Steiff mohair elephant, circa 1909 2 The straw filled grey elephant with black boot button eyes, felt tusks, A large Steiff Teddy bear circa 1909 swivel head and jointed at shoulders and hips, having stitched toes, and The straw filled brown mohair bear with black button eyes, pointed squeeze box, (some wear to mohair, small hole to right tusk, squeeze muzzle and stitched nose, swivel head and jointed at shoulders and box inoperative), 23cm (9in) tall. hips, hump to back and having elongated arms and large feet, felt paw £600 - 1,000 €710 - 1,200 US$960 - 1,600 pads and button in left ear, (some slight wear to mohair, split and repair to nose and nose stitching, split to left wrist, ankle and repair to right 7 ankle, left foot pad recovered), 71cm (28in) tall. Eduard Cramer Teddy bear, 1920s £1,500 - 2,500 €1,800 - 2,900 US$2,400 - 4,000 The golden mohair bear with clear glass eyes, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head and jointed at shoulders and hips, felt paw pads, 3 (some wear to muzzle, back of legs and head, pads recovered, repair to Rare centre seam Steiff Teddy Bear, German circa 1909 left wrist and ankles), 59cm (23in tall), The straw filled white mohair bear with black boot button eyes, £600 - 1,000 €710 - 1,200 US$960 - 1,600 elongated muzzle with tan stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head and jointed at shoulders and hips, hump to back, elongated arms and 8 large feet with felt paw pads, (pads recovered, lacks button), 43cm Golden mohair Steiff Teddy bear, circa 1920 (17in) tall. The straw filled bear with glass eyes, black stitched nose, mouth and £1,500 - 2,000 €1,800 - 2,400 US$2,400 - 3,200 claws, swivel head and jointed at shoulders and hips, felt paw pads and button to left ear, (some wear to mohair on face and feet, pads 4 recovered), 33cm (13in) tall.