#antique reproduction doll

[hauntedlamb]

Adjusting her ribbon 🎀

[marzipanandminutiae]

Sisters!

Leonore (left) and Mary Ann (right) are both antique French fashion dolls c. late 1860s-early 1870s. Two of my fire survivors- cleaned up, of course

Amy (middle) is a lovely reproduction of an 18th-century English wooden doll, by the Old Pretenders studio. She takes consoling her new family very seriously, since they’ve been through such trials

[saturnsoiree]

[littlewalken]

Tiny reproduction fashion lady I bought at the doll show. I've been wanting a Bebe faced doll but I don't want the responsibility of a real one nor did I want to get in to ABJD prices. She's small enough to be a doll for other dolls but not too small to sew for.

*Suspecting she's by Cathy Hansen.

[campyvillain]

the current thing trad losers are losing their minds over is one singular dude on reddit that refurbished and hand painted a grandfather clock and they keep saying the guy “ruined its value” or “threw thousands out the window by vandalizing a precious heirloom” and let me just say as someone densely familiar with the world of antiques, there’s a 99% chance that this clock was a mass produced reproduction and there’s a 100% chance that clock is not as valuable as ppl think it is. when people hear the word ‘grandfather clock’ they’re always gonna assume you’re talking about something that was handmade in a woodshop by a jolly old man when rlly repros take up a waaay bigger slice of the market far more than any handcrafted items. and besides people will repaint or redecorate these ‘oh so sacred handcrafted items’ every day there’s a huge market for them. it’s the same reason why people like long furbies or dolls that have been customized to have like gore mouths or something. this is literally like watching a bunch of pretentious farts make a mountain out of a molehill. also the clock is kinda cool if I’m being honest

[girlsdressingrooms]

Iris Barrel Apfel, Decorator and Fashion Stylist

(August 29, 1921 – March 1, 2024) 

Ms. Apfel was one of the most vivacious personalities in the worlds of fashion, textiles, and interior design, she has cultivated a personal style that is both witty and exuberantly idiosyncratic.

Her originality was typically revealed in her mixing of high and low fashions—Dior haute couture with flea market finds, nineteenth-century ecclesiastical vestments with Dolce & Gabbana lizard trousers.

With remarkable panache and discernment, she combines colors, textures, and patterns without regard to period, provenance, and, ultimately, aesthetic conventions. Paradoxically, her richly layered combinations—even at their most extreme and baroque—project a boldly graphic modernity.

Iris Barrel was born on Aug. 29, 1921, in Astoria, Queens, the only child of Samuel Barrel, who owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye, who owned a fashion boutique.

She studied art history at New York University, then qualified to teach and did so briefly in Wisconsin before fleeing back to New York to work on Women's Wear Daily, and for interior designer Elinor Johnson, decorating apartments for resale and honing her talent for sourcing rare items before opening her own design firm. She was also an assistant to illustrator Robert Goodman.

As a distinguished collector and authority on antique fabrics, Iris Apfel has consulted on numerous restoration projects that include work at the White House that spanned nine presidencies from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton.

Along with her husband, Carl, she founded Old World Weavers, an international textile manufacturing company and ran it until they retired in 1992. The Apfels specialized in the reproduction of fabrics from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traveled to Europe twice a year in search of textiles they could not source in the United States.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute assembled 82 ensembles and 300 accessories from her personal collection in 2005 in a show about her called “Rara Avis”.

Almost overnight, Ms. Apfel became an international celebrity of pop fashion.

Ms. Apfel was seen in a television commercial for the French car DS 3, became the face of the Australian fashion brand Blue Illusion, and began a collaboration with the start-up WiseWear. A year later, Mattel created a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll in her image. Last year, she appeared in a beauty campaign for makeup with Ciaté London.

Six years after the Met show she started her fashion line "Rara Avis" with the Home Shopping Network.

She was cover girl of Dazed and Confused, among many other publications, window display artist at Bergdorf Goodman, designer and design consultant, then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97.

Ms. Iris Apfel became a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in its Division of Textiles and Apparel, teaching about imagination, craft and tangible pleasures in a world of images.

 In 2018, she published “Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon,” an autobiographical collection of musings, anecdotes and observations on life and style. 

Ms. Apfel’s apartments in New York and Palm Beach were full of furnishings and tchotchkes that might have come from a Luis Buñuel film: porcelain cats, plush toys, statuary, ornate vases, gilt mirrors, fake fruit, stuffed parrots, paintings by Velázquez and Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a mannequin on an ostrich.

The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History in Boynton Beach, Florida, is designing a building that will house a dedicated gallery of Ms. Apfel's clothes, accessories, and furnishings.

Ms. Apfel’s work had a universal quality, It’s was a trend.

Rest in Power !

[wildbeautifuldamned]

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[charmsponies]

Hii i love ur page sm, how many ponies do you have for each gen?

Hello! Hehe thank you for the question! let me go count real quick! this is excluding any ponies in my “to clean/restore” pile (mostly g4s but some g1 too). and also excluding the ones ive bought but havent gotten in the mail yet.

(Current state of my pony shelf hehe. Its night here so the lightings bad sorry)

For g1: 20 ponies and Molly, plus 2 reproductions (and an additional one thats in the “retro style” but not really g1) and 4 reproduction miniature ponies

I don’t have any g2 yet (I really need to grab one…. at our local antique mall they have a boxed g2 sundance for a pretty good price and ive been eyeing her so maybe? ill get one eventually hehe)

For g3: I have 13 ponies, plus 3 mcdonalds ponies.

For g3.5: I have 1 Pinkie Pie (a childhood toy of mine), 1 mcdonalds pony, and 1 weird baby figurine of a 3.5 rainbowdash.

For g4: I have 7 Brushable ponies, Plus one Fluttershy figure that doesnt have brushable hair, Plus 4 Mcdonalds Toys. I dont have any g4.5

G5 is honestly the generation I know the least about (still havent. watched any of the movies/shows lol) but i Do have 2 brushable pony dolls for g5 and 4 miniature little action figure things.

I may have miscounted one of those lol but thats about how many i have ^^ I honestly get a lot for free from my family when they visit goodwill and stuff

[oxbowreality]

do you watch any niche/interesting hobby/career youtube channels? i collect them like shiny rocks

examples are like kiwami japan, baumgartner restoration, nilered, odd tinkering, etc

I love channels where people make things. Nicole Rudolph makes antique and vintage reproductions of shoes, Dollightful creates custom dolls, EngineeringKnits makes Victorian knitwear from antique patterns... Almost all of the niche stuff I watch is historical costuming videos. It's my special interest and I'm actually attending a virtual symposium on cosplay/costuming (CoSy) next week!

Also special plug for Cheyney McKnight from Not Your Momma’s History, who does living history/museum interpretation as a career and translates her work quite well into video format.

[ateliermandaline]

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[bigtinytoys]

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[cohenskicksposts]

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[marzipanandminutiae]

Ok so I was mucking around online and came across Theriault's doll auctions.

A few thousand on a rare or antique doll I can totally see. But tens (or hundreds!!!!) Of thousands of dollars??? Who has that kind of money to spend on a single doll? Not that I don't think they could possibly be worth that much I guess. But...are these people buying the dolls because they will actually cherish them? Or are they just spending for bragging rights?

I just...I guess I hope it's museums.

Depends on the person, honestly.

I used to work for a dealer, and while we never got into the $10,000+ range, I did get a glimpse of who exactly makes that kind of purchase. Many of them do indeed really love the dolls; I think of one specific case where a dear friend of mine had a successful doll reproduction business and horse-traded his way up to an incredibly rare $20K 18th-century doll. He's not Bezos RichTM or anything. He just was a childfree artist who made good money and had priorities. Antique dolls were his one big indulgence: not a second home, not cars, not designer accessories. Dolls made him happy, so he was willing to save and grind away at his business and eat ramen sometimes to make the really insane ones his own.

For some, it IS the bragging rights. Never exactly the sort of people who are active in the community and who you'd want to spend time with, in my experience. I recall one heir to a major company who was in a battle with another hyper-rich guy for who could get the most rare [Doll Brand Redacted]. I guess it's better than spending your money on private jets and mega-yachts; at least they're works of art? At least you're supporting dealers and (usually) small auction houses? But it doesn't seem like true enjoyment to me. Not the way I see "lesser" collectors like my friends enjoying our dolls.

There's also the fact that not all collectors get their most valuable dolls at market value. Sure, the auction records you saw show people spending top dollar, but people having those dolls in their collection doesn't necessarily mean they spent that much. Some bought when the dolls were newer or the market was down, often the very elderly collectors. Some were gifted their dolls. Some got a rare head at an amazing price on a shitty cloth body with little T-Rex arms, and then sold another rare doll they got a deal on to buy a beautiful appropriate antique body.

(...Leonore. That was Leonore.)

And finally, sometimes it is indeed museums. The current record for most expensive doll ever sold at auction, for over $300,000, was an 1870s Rochard French fashion doll sold to the Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University.

[ubaid214]

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[angelofthemaze]

a successful summoning spell

weeks ago i listened to a fitting song and put all of my energy into a spell that i intended to unite me with a lovely doll. now, i may have forgotten to specify that i meant a doll in a human body.......

i visited a human antique store, and my favorite doll picked out some earrings for itself. i was browsing the middle isle of the building when i locked eyes with her. i audibly gasped, causing all of the surrounding humans to turn and look at me.

it was a barbie doll, not in-box but in fabulous condition, on a stand in a glass display case. there was a pane between us but i immediately went over to look at her and her price. expensive, but this doll had touched my heart. from the human cashier of the antique store i learned that she had only been brought in just the day before. i was apparently destined to have bought her before someone else, including the cashier who had been considering it.

i had my suspicions that she was a 1993 reproduction of a #1 barbie doll (original is from 1959) and when i returned to my abode to examine her, my theory was proven true. her sunglasses say 1993 on them, and by the holes in her feet i know she is a reproduction of the #1 barbie doll from 1959. an amazing adventure, and now she is one of my prized barbie dolls.

i hope my next spell will be as successful. i am always looking for more dolls.

[lovemymaltese]

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