Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Mid-century living room and other treasures from Germany

Today I am sharing more treasures I found at the doll festival in the Sonneberg area last May.
My travel doll, Daphne, is happy to show us the room. The furniture is a large 1/12th scale
This is only one small section of the doll street sale. It stretched for blocks and went down all the side streets. What fun it was.
I found the Erzgebirge tea set and eggs with cups, as well as the little spotted dog in Seiffen, Germany.   
I found the new dollhouse rugs and the lovely antique furniture at the doll festival street market. It seemed that the entire town was one big street sale of dolls and dollhouse treasures.




I also found these lovely biedermeier/boule pieces, and the curtains complete with curtain rods and hooks, as well as the lovely chandelier.
I was particularly pleased with these two beautiful 1920s dollhouse dolls in their original outfits.  

I don't know when or if I can get back to this wonderful place for another doll festival, so this may have been the trip of a lifetime. I am so glad I got to go there at least once.

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  1. beauty miniatures! I love the dolls

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    1. Thanks, It's fun to find mid-century-modern that is actually from the mid-century. Now I just have to find a dollhouse to put them in.

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  3. Wonderful miniatures, wish I would have been there!

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    1. I hope you can go sometime, Anna. I hope I get to go again too. It's overwhelming, but so much fun.

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  4. Hello Shale,
    What wonderful items you found. they are all lovely, but the biedermeier pieces are incredible. Enjoy your new treasures.
    Big hug,
    Giac

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    1. Thanks Giac! I love the biedermeier too. It's hard to find over here, and although I was in the area where it was made a century ago, it was still hard to find.

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  5. Daphne looks so at home with her soft boiled eggs in the blue polk a dot breakfast ware! I think those dolls are in the best condition I've ever seen. Gorgeous. CM

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    1. Daphne enjoyed the trip even though she spent most of it in my purse (poor girl). She was happy to get out to pose with the furniture.
      Yes, those dollhouse dolls are in the best condition I have ever seen. They are factory fresh. They must have been packed away soon after they were purchased and surfaced just in time for me to buy them (about nine decades later.)

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  6. Oh, those dolls are fantastic! So unusual to have early 20th c. costumes in such good shape! And the other antique pieces are lovely too.... especially the chandelier! What a great opportunity to visit during a doll festival!

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