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Fine Dolls, Dolls Houses, Soft Toys & Juvenalia Auction (171) 20/11/24 10:30 AM Closed

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Lot 2The Hick’s Family wooden Dolls House, English 1856, as recorded and illustrated in Family Dolls Houses by Vivien Greene,

The Hick’s Family wooden Dolls House, English 1856, as recorded and illustrated in Family Dolls Houses by Vivien Greene,
The Hick’s Family wooden Dolls House, English 1856, as recorded and illustrated in Family Dolls Houses by Vivien Greene, an extremely impressive house with painted sandstone exterior, the grand entrance with steps leading to hinged and panelled front door with glazed window and two moulded Doric columns with shallow portico, five glazed opening windows to façade and a further two to each side, painted pitched tiled roof with two chimneys, front opens in two wings to four rooms, hallway and landing, interior with four well moulded hinged doors with surrounds and skirting boards throughout, good original paint and papers to all rooms including kitchen walls painted ‘drab’, living room with original plum coloured patterned papers and cream seaweed patterned papers to upper rooms, 42 ½” (108cm) tall, 46 ¾” (118.5cm) wide, 29 ¼” (74cm) deep, (condition: some general wear, wings are detached, lacks some beading to roof, interior in good original condition, lacks staircase and hallway window is replaced). This house was first recorded by Vivien Green in her Family Dolls House book, page : 130, published in 1973, stating ‘being so satisfying in its proportions that one longs to possess and furnish it’, ‘it is said to be a model of a Barton Shaw house in Bolton occupied by Edmond and Margaret Ashworth (nee Hick)’. Please note: For viewing, shipping and collection of this lot please contact Leigh Gotch at C&T Auctioneers direct. Categories: Dolls Houses, Room Sets and Miniatures
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Lot closed - unsold
Estimate: £2,500 - £4,000
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