Gottschalk Dollhouse with Pull-Out Garden - Antique dollhouse

Today, I would like to share my German Red Roof Gottschalk Dollhouse with Rare Pull-Out Garden from circa 1921

It is a lovely little dollhouse with a big bay window in the front and a side veranda.

Inside there are four rooms if you can count the entry hall and upstairs hall as rooms

The garden slides out from beneath the house like a drawer. Steps to the garden are in the drawer as well

I wonder if the green areas were for specific pieces of furniture.  There are other styles of Gottschalk  houses with pull out gardens. Some have different shapes painted on them

Here is the furnished garden complete with trellis, fountain and sundial.

The house looks very good with the garden extended. 

Here is the upper hall. I have used Gottschalk furniture form the same period as the house in most of the rooms

Since I don't have an appropriate bed for this house I made this room on the second floor into a study

Most Gottschalk houses of this period have a water closet under the stairs. This one retains it's original toilet. The door into the house from the veranda is on the maids right.

I was excited to find this wonderful green pressed paper furniture suite for the parlour of this house. It is the same type of furniture that is in the garden and meant to represent wicker. The garden furniture is quite common, but I have never seen these pieces before except for the table. The sofa and chairs are of a different design and the large piece in the back of the room and the sewing stand are unique in my experience.

Two more pieces of the suite are in the bay window. I have seen the plant stand in a different colour, but not the little bench. Can you see the little white feet of the peeping tom in the window? She is not actually a tom, but she is curious. Lily was trying to figure out what I was doing during the photo shoot.

Antique Doll's Room Boxes that I wish I had in my Collection

Below are pictures of Antique Room Boxes that I saw in museums last spring when I traveled through German, Austria, Poland the the Czech Republic.

I thought you might enjoy seeing all the details that are in the original rooms. From furniture to light fixtures to glassware and cutlery and the wallpaper and the curtains - not to mention all the wonderful dolls with their pets and playthings. 

The kitchens are quite wonderful and make me glad that we have modern conveniences.

There are a lot of pictures. Have fun!

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.