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APRIL 30-MAY 1, 2022

AT THERIAULT’S STUDIO IN ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND x AUCTION 11AM EST BOTH DAYS

“THE FACE IN THE CAMEO” A CATALOGED MARQUIS AUCTION OF FINE ANTIQUE DOLLS

Call 410-224-3655 to order the full-color catalog. Live internet, telephone, and absentee bidding are available.

the dollmasters PO Box 151 • Annapolis, Maryland 21404 Tel: 410-224-3655 • Fax: 410-224-2515 Follow @theriaultsdolls • theriaults.com


Saturday and Sunday,

April 30-May 1, 2022 at Theriault’s Studio in Annapolis, Maryland

The Auction Begins at 11AM Eastern Both Days

“THE FACE IN THE CAMEO” A CATALOGED MARQUIS AUCTION OF FINE ANTIQUE DOLLS During the

bébés to German bisque and cloth art character dolls

mid-1800s,

and mignonettes. Too, the applauded celebrity doll

centuries-

collection of Peggy Yale includes many examples

old cameo art had a grand

with autographs from the celebrities themselves. And

resurgence, incidentally at the very time that the

there are the cameos themselves, a superb one-owner

sculpted bisque and porcelain doll was coming into

collection from a well-known Virginia collector

prominence. Today we can reflect on these two

featuring profile portraits and vignettes alike. Two

art forms at Theriault’s April 30-May 1 Marquis

days of live auctions in the gallery, as well as live

doll auction as the cameo and the doll come,

video/audio presentation of the entire auctions.

quite literally, face to face. More than 500 rare and wonderfully-preserved dolls are presented in the two

If you would like to examine your favorite dolls

day auction event ranging from an extraordinary

prior to the auction, you can reserve a private video

early Continental wooden doll in impeccable

viewing. Or you can call the office to arrange an on-

original court costume to rare French poupées and

site viewing (mask will be required).

There are the cameos themselves, a superb one-owner collection from a well-known Virginia collector featuring profile portraits and vignettes alike. 2

The 224-page full-color catalog with detailed descriptions of each lot can be ordered for $69. For more information or to order the catalog visit www.theriaults.com or call 410-224-3655. There are many options for bidding including traditional absentee bidding, live telephone bidding, live internet bidding, and pre-bidding on internet. Collectors are invited to telephone Theriault’s customer service at 410-224-3655, email info@ theriaults.com or visit www.theriaults.com. x

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Live internet, telephone, and absentee bidding are available. For more information call 410-224-3655 or visit Theriaults.com.

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Get Close-Up and Personal with Your Favorite Dolls from Theriault’s Face2Live is Theriault’s new service that allows you to view on live video feed close-ups of a few dolls you are most interested in. Call 410-224-3655 or email info@theriaults.com to schedule an appointment. Then simply go to theriaults.com and click the handy button on the side of the main page. From there you will be connected to one of our staff on video chat (you do not have to be on video yourself) who can either get the doll you are interested in right then or schedule an appointment with you later. A great way to get a close up look of features and face in a live private video session. Available Monday through Friday 9AM-4PM Eastern.

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Diversity is the word to describe the many rare dolls featured in the Spring event. Choose from fabulous 19th century French dolls or swing over to the American celebrity dolls of the 1930s, many with autographs from the actual celebrity. Perhaps mignonettes are your dolls of choice or rare German bisque art character dolls. And early wooden dolls, too, take center stage with examples you thought never possible to see or attain. Wherever your collecting dreams take you, you will be certain to find it at this auction. Visit www. theriaults.com and click on “bid online” to view all of the wonderful dolls in the auction.


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Bidding Is Easy At Theriault’s Bid Live on the Internet Plan to spend the day at the auction in the comfort of your home. Watch and listen to the auction live, and get ready to bid live when the dolls of your choice come up for auction.

Bid on the Telephone Theriault’s President and Head Auctioneer, Stuart Holbrook

Choose your dolls, and then call our office to make a reservation for telephone bidding. We call you when your dolls of choice come up for bidding, and you bid just as though you were there.

Every Theriault’s auction brims with new discoveries for your collection. So why not join Bid Absentee in on the bidding fun? It’s Place your bids right up to the time of auction by mail, fax, easy. Choose your favorite email or phone. Advise us of the way to bid and prioritize lots and your top bid. We will bid for you fairly and competitively. your choices.

We Can Answer All Your Questions Call Theriault’s at 410-224-3655 or email info@theriaults.com and we’ll review all the details and help you choose the option that’s best for you. We also now offer scheduled private video previews.

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Dollmastery Vignette Series Watch Florence Theriault’s educational videos about antique dolls — available for viewing on YouTube.

Simply visit YouTube.com/TheriaultsDolls After April 17th, watch for new videos featuring rare dolls from the April 30 - May 1, 2022 auction to be sold at the Marquis Auction Event at Theriault’s Studio in Annapolis, MD.

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Theriault’s

A Night at the Auctions

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f you’ve been missing your favorite midweek entertainment, here is great news.

Wednesday evening Rendevous auctions are back in full court. Check these dates and watch for a parade of wonderful antique dolls. These delightful mini-auctions, lasting just over an hour, give you the mid-week break into the world of dolls that will brighten the rest of your work week.

UPCOMING DATES Visit Theriaults.com/Auctions for dates!

May 11, 2022 at 7PM Eastern May 18, 2022 at 7PM Eastern May 25, 2022 at 7PM Eastern June 1, 2022 at 7PM Eastern T

he auctions are live online video and audio so you can watch and bid live on the entire auction from your home. Live telephone bidding and traditional absentee bidding are also available. And – wait for it, yes, it’s true – now you can attend the auction live in person – call for 410-224-3655 details.

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All Kinds of Auctions All About Dolls Whatever your style of doll, whatever your budget, Theriault’s is here to provide you with a chance to bring home a doll with live online bidding, live telephone bidding or traditional absentee bidding. So plan to “come to the auction”, draw up a chair, get comfortable, and watch the live audio/video stream whether you plan to bid or not. It’s such fun! x Marquis Doll Auctions

Our premier events, presented bi-monthly, featuring important and rare dolls, many from celebrated private collections or important museums, presented in award-winning full color catalogs.

x Specialty Doll Auctions

Ranging from Barbies of the 1960s and 1970s to rarities from the Madame Alexander firm, these auctions are also featured in award winning full-color catalogs.

x Rendezvous Doll Auctions

Wednesday Evening mid-week auctions, just a little get-together auction, with a great selection of dolls and playthings ranging from rare dolls to those more affordable.

x Fifty Forward Doll Auctions

Our newest style, designed as an oldfashioned country auction. Where every lot begins its bidding at $50. A great variety of dolls, playthings and related ephemera in new-style timed auction, only available online.

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Overwhelmed? Moving to a smaller home? Faced with handling a family estate? Or just deciding to downsize your collection. Collectors tell us the word that most describes their feeling is “overwhelmed”. Not to worry. For more than 50 years, Theriault’s has been the “little engine that could” in helping collectors and families accomplish that task effortlessly. We listen to you. We evaluate your dolls and lay out a plan to accomplish your goals. And then, if you agree, we do all the work. Our full-time professional staff travels to your home, inventories your property, carefully packs and transports in our own secure vehicles, prepares and markets your dolls for auction,

and presents them to collectors worldwide whose trust in Theriault’s is borne out by the prices they are willing to bid. You just sit back and breathe a sigh of relief. Stuart Holbrook, President of Theriault’s, is traveling throughout the country now, visiting with collectors by appointment. If you have questions or would like to schedule a noobligation complimentary appointment, call Theriault’s at 410-224-3655 or email info@theriaults.com.

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Come Visit The New FlorenceandGeorge.com In the early 1970s Florence and George Theriault cast off their lucrative and stable careers to open a small country auction house in rural Pennsylvania. They didn’t make more money, they made less. They didn’t work fewer hours, they worked more, but they were their own bosses. Within ten years that small auction company became an internationally renowned antique auction firm. Later Theriault’s moved to Annapolis, Maryland, and a sister company, Dollmasters, was founded by Florence and George. Where Theriault’s would offer people unparalleled antique collectibles, Dollmasters presented collectors with a mix of hand-crafted art pieces and old store stock discovered by Florence and George as they toured the world gathering antiques. Dollmasters distinguished itself as the mail-order company that didn’t simply offer every item it could find; they picked and chose the ones they would be proud to have in their own homes.

Shopping couldn’t be easier at the great new Florence and George! Better, faster, and still the name you’ve come to trust with F&G!

Four decades later, Dollmasters changed its name to Florence and George to celebrate the original entrepreneurial spirit of its founders. But like Dollmasters, Florence and George is still committed to offering you nothing we wouldn’t put in our homes. Florence and George: For collectors, by collectors.

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Doll Research Books | FlorenceAndGeorge.com

Florence & George Books Continue To Be The Best Doll Research Tool! To browse the great selection of books about every type of doll visit FlorenceAndGeorge.com. To order call 410-224-4386.

T H E F RE N C H E N CYCLOP E D IA , T WO VO LUM E S E T By François Theimer. English Edition edited by Florence Theriault. Readers will find this book informative and fascinating reading about French doll history of the 19th century up to 1925. This time period encompasses the pre-industrial era, the Industrial Revolution, the dawning of the 20th century and post WWI. Thousands of references to doll firms, inventors, stores, and actual dolls are arranged alphabetically within the 600 pages of this work, enabling collectors for the first time to research and document their antique doll treasures. Contains superb photographs of existing examples of actual dolls, many previously undocumented. Well- indexed, more than 4,000 illustrations and color photographs. Hardbound. 8 ½” x 11”. BT-218. $149.

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G ERMA N DO LL STUDI ES: H I STO RI C DO LL RESEA RCH F RO M TH E PUBLI SH ED ARCH I V ES O F CI ESLI K ’ S P U PPENMAG A Z I N The authors of the long out-of-print German Doll Encyclopedia are the publishers of Ciesliks Puppenmagazin, which was named The best doll magazine in the world at an international doll conference in Paris, France. Unfortunately, that magazine was published in the German language and its wonderful research was a “closed book” to English language collectors. Good news! An English language edition of important articles from that magazine is available in this deluxe hardbound edition. Its exceptional research will change many notions of “who made what” as well as solve many old mysteries. This is a must have book for any serious collector. Hardbound with 332 pages and over 400 photographs, most of which are in color. 9” x 12”. BT-183. $75.

CHERISHED COLLECTION, ANTIQUE DOLLS & DOLL COSTUMES OF MADAME ANDREE PETYT Madame Andree Petyt, the elegant European lady whose collection was visited by Belgian royalty, never played with dolls as a child. She came to dolls, she explained, through a love of fashion and an enduring fascination with doll costumes and the history of clothing those dolls personified. This explains the particular vision of Madame Petyt whose extraordinary collection of rare dolls in exquisite costumes are featured in a full color commemorative hardbound book with historic references. 188 pages. Hardbound with value key. 8 ½” x 11”. BT-256. $75.

L ANDMA RK , TH E MA RG A RET LUMI A CO LLECTI O N } Only rarely do collections appear with such significance that they can rightfully be labeled legendary or lodestar. Or “Landmark”. Which is the auction title of the collection of Margaret Lumia. Chosen with a discerning eye, acquired with a dogged persistence, and nurtured carefully during their time in her care, her dolls offer today’s collectors a rare opportunity to see – and, perhaps win – a magnificent treasure from time past. The collection ranges from fine early wood and paper mache to superb French bébés and poupées, to the rarest of the German bisque art characters, mostly all in original costumes. There are dollhouses, early doll furniture, and more. Softbound. 10” x 10”. 204 pages. BT-346. $79.

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T H E T RO USS E AU OF BLO N DI N E T T E By Florence Theriault. A remarkable discovery of one little girl’s Huret doll, trousseau, and furniture was made in a chateau in Rouen, France in the spring of 1894. In this volume every item of this amazing 150-piece trousseau is shown in full color and vivid detail- an accurate testimony to the French doll fashions of the years 18621867. Detailed descriptions make this book an unparalleled guide for the doll collector of French fashion dolls and a fascinating reference book for the student of fashion. Hardbound. 80 pages. BT-148. $33.

A FU L LY PE RF EC T E D G RACE By Florence Theriault. In 1870, Leon Casimir Bru described his wooden-bodied poupée as having “a fully perfected grace.” It is a phrase that aptly describes the entire world of the French fashion doll from 1850–1880. This beautiful hardbound book, with 260 color photographs, gives the reader a detailed glimpse into the world of fashion dolls during this period. Including furniture, accessories, chronologies, patents and lists of shops, makers, and body styles. Hardbound. 10” x 10”. BT-164. $49.

T H E D OLL CO LLECTI O N O F H U G U E TTE CLA RK , H A R D B OUND EDI TI O N The collection comprises extraordinary dolls and automata from the French golden age of 1860-1890, as well as selections of sought-after early Japanese cultural dolls and architectural miniatures. The dolls are presented in a commemorative catalog with many historical references concerning the life of Huguette Clark. Hardbound. 10” x 10”. 232 pages. BT-356. $118.

E N S E MB LE, TH E H A NNE B U KTAS CO LLECTI O N Side-by-side with hundreds of the rarest French poupées from the ateliers of Huret, Rohmer, Rochard, Bru, Jumeau, Radiquet and Cordonnier, Dehors and others are to be found finely crafted doll-sized furnishings, of finest woods and trimmed with ormolu or bronze, outstanding original trousseaux of exquisite style and fabrics, and the rarest of the rare in miniature accessories. Over 400 items are shown in this beautiful hardbound book. 10” x 10”. 172 pages. BT-303. $75.

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TH E JUMEAU BO O K By François Theimer and Florence Theriault. A remarkable book about the rise and fall of the French Jumeau family through six decades of the 19th century is a fascinating read for even the non-doll collector. For the first time, well researched technical chapters clearly mark the evolution of various models of the firm. Beautifully detailed color photographs teach the reader how to identify each. Also included are chronologies, early catalogs and advertising, and section on original costumes. Hardbound. 8 ½” x 11”. 425 pages. BT-134. $75.

COTI LLI O N, TH E SUSAN WH I TTA K ER CO LLECT ION More than 400 fine antique dolls including an array of the rarest of French bébés (H, AT, Bru, Jumeau, Schmitt and a fabulous Marque) and more than 200 exceptional early mignonettes, and more than 50 googlies in the rarest models and sizes known to exist. Hardbound. 10” x 10”. 204 full-color pages. BT-317. $75.

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Summer Returns and So Does Theriault’s! Here’s a Sneak Announcement An Important Marquis Doll Auction

Monday, August 1, 2022 in St. Louis At the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel in Missouri Featuring Dolls from the Estate Collections of Kathryn DeFillipo and Lorna Lieberman If you’re planning to attend the UFDC annual convention in St. Louis this summer, plan to arrive one day early to enjoy this in-person live auction of fabulous dolls. Many more details to follow in the coming months. And if you’re attending the convention, be sure to register

for Wednesday evening program “One Thing Leads to Another” featuring Stuart Holbrook and Florence Theriault who will be holding an informal conversation about dolls and doll collecting (and they don’t always agree!) and sharing stories about amusing and enlightening experiences in the world of dolls. x

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Go to theriaults.com to complete your doll research or just to see what’s new!

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S AT U R DAY & S U N DAY

April 30, 2022

11:00 AM Eastern. “The Face in the Cameo” Day One. Marquis Auction Event Begins.

May 1, 2022

11:00 AM Eastern. “The Face in the Cameo” Day Two. Marquis Auction Event Begins.

For more auction information or to discuss selling your dolls call 410-224-3655 or visit www.theriaults.com.

Absentee, Telephone and Live Internet Bidding We welcome absentee bidding, live telephone bidding, and live bidding on the internet. Too, you can “tunein” to the online auction and watch and listen to the entire event. Questions? Give us a call and we’ll help you choose the bidding option that is best for you.

Auction Information The auction will take place at the Theriault’s Studio in Annapolis, Maryland. For auction information call Theriault’s at 410-224-3655 M-F 9AM-5PM EST or go online to theriaults.com. Email queries to info@theriaults.com anytime.

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