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section 3: farm buildings & animals and misc. buildings, 1880s to 1920s images & photography: Jennifer McKendry © home page GALLERY of IMAGES 1 GALLERY OF IMAGES 2 GALLERY OF IMAGES 4 GALLERY OF IMAGES 5 GALLERY OF IMAGES 6 INDEX of GALLERY History of Dollhouses article
Warehouse, probably German, lithographed brick walls and roof tiles over wood, 14" high, c1900
1905 "Modern Warehouse" in the Wiemann & Muench catalogue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Stable, likely German c1900, almost 12" high, with housing for farm workers in the upper level; iron wagon and wheelbarrow; painted composition horses (one retaining its original felt blanket and leather girdle), 4½" long; painted tin canoe (leaning at right)
Horses in painted composition (papier mâché) with wood legs, foal marked Germany, brown mare 5" high, c1915-20; dolls marked Germany in original clothing c1930; painted metal pump, 5" high, c1915
1914 horse and cow, papier mâché, imported [from Germany], free-standing; Butler Brothers catalogue
c1910 cattle and donkey, painted composition with wooden legs, steer 4½" long and marked Germany
Flock of sheep, likely German, ram 3" high, early 20th century
1905 Weimann & Muench catalogue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1914 ad by Butler Brothers
Stable, 11½" high, with hinged upper door and metal hay crib; similar to model 5544 by the Moritz Gottschalk toy factory of Germany
1911 Bliss stable with horses on wheeled platforms and a wagon; the upper fronts have a half timber design printed on paper glued to wood, as in the stable shown below
A painted metal wagon pulled by a pair of black horses and directed by a driver, shaft marked "MADE IN U.S.A.", attached is a hand-written note "bought by Dad in 1944" (but similar to examples made much earlier), overall length 11"; an outhouse ("World's Smallest Library") dated 1938
Painted papier mâché horse, 4" high, with original harness and chains, on platform with wheels, likely German and meant to pull a wagon
1894 Montgomery Ward catalogue showing a papier mâché German horse on a platform with wheels, some are independant with saddles while others are meant to pull wagons
Pair of horses, covered with imitation horse-hair, and retaining their original tails, manes and glass eyes, as well as (imitation) leather and metal harnesses, 5" long, likely German in origin; metal and celluloid lantern, just under 1½" high, by the American firm Tootsietoy c1930s
1921 covered horses on platforms with wheels, Sears Roebuck catalogue
1838 the tradition of playing with animals on wheeled platforms and horse stables has spanned a long time in Germany; note also the toy soldiers and doll (detail from 1838 painting by Wilheim von Harnier)
one of the smallest and plainest of the Red Robin Farm buildings by the American manufacturer Converse; 6½" high, early 20th century
1914 Roosevelt Stock Farm by Converse of Massachusetts, Marshall Field catalogue; the main doorway is arched ; the colours and patterns are printed directly on the wood; some models have a roof ventilator, sliding doors and porthole openings on the back wall to ventilate the horse stalls; note the animals cut out of thin pieces of wood supported on wood bases
1922 Red Robin stock farm by Converse, Sear Roebuck catalogue
1905 four stables in the Wiemann & Muench catalogue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; lithographed paper over wood; below: two are Bliss examples made in Rhode Island
1893 Carl Stirn of New York catalogue, stable probably imported from Germany (although Stirn & Lyon also made toys in the 1870s and '80s); its simple lines contrasts with the example below
1893 Carl Stirn of New York catalogue, stable probably imported from Germany (although Stirn & Lyon also made toys in the 1870s and '80s) and likely a product of the Gottschalk firm; "a finer stable", it came with a wonderful array of accessories including the coachman with his whip
Pond with painted metal fowl, cats and dogs; made in England, France and Germany; early 20th century (modern trees)
Metal swan, 1¼" high, marked ""FRANCE DEPOSE [registered] B.F." with cygnet riding on its back; floating duck marked "FRANCE"; exotic bird (on right) marked "MADE IN FRANCE"
Painted composition horse with original leather harness and reins (replaced mane, tail and saddle), likely German c1910, 4¾" high; metal dogs c1920s; composition doll in felt clothes c1920s; American cast-iron benches c1870; in the background, McLoughlin's garden house c1910, New York
1914 celluloid (thin, brittle, moulded early form of plastic) horse, Marshall Field catalogue
c1914 cast iron horse, made as a bank, given to a boy born in Ontario in 1919
1996 Canadian hand-painted and hand-carved wood horse wearing vintage blanket, saddle and harness
Pig barn home-made in Quebec, Canada, with removable roof, smaller scale than usual, 6½" high, typical painted pattern on the doors of farm buildings in French Canada, date unknown, possibly 1930s (accessories manufactured recently)
Farm outbuilding with lean-to roof, home-made in south-eastern Ontario, Canada, probably based on an existing farm, 13" long, date unknown, possibly 1940s; stump and axe carved in Quebec; model of a well, found in Ontario, c1900; painted metal goat (3½" high) and composition-wood dog, probably made in Germany
1905 Wiemann &Muench catalogue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; both fire stations are by the American Bliss firm
1893 Carl Stirn catalogue, New York, perhaps a German import (although Stirn & Lyon also made toys in the 1870s and '80s)
1893 Carl Stirn catalogue, New York, likely a German import (although Stirn & Lyon also made toys in the 1870s and '80s) possibly Gottschalk PLEASE CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE THE GALLERY OF IMAGES! top top of page home page history of dollhouses a a GALLERY of IMAGES 1 GALLERY OF IMAGES 2 GALLERY OF IMAGES 4 GALLERY OF IMAGES 5 |
11908-1909 Nerlich & Co. catalogue,
Toronto, Canada, black painted iron horse pulling a steel cart, overall length 6½"
