Item: Beautiful Blue Pindot Dress for Cabinet Sized Doll  
      FACTORY- MADE and Genuinely Antique

Description:
An adorable dress for a bisque doll- genuinely antique and factory made. Very attractive and appealing styling. Puff sleeves, very full gathered skirt, extra-wide hem. Yoke features a center box pleat and the very wide waistband is stitched at the bottom of the box pleat; ties in a huge bow at the rear. Edged with tiny white ball fringe edging around sleeve edges and around the edge of the collar. Back closure with hidden early single strand hooks and eyes. Dress is a baby blue cotton--with very tiny flocked twin dots allover.
Measures 12” long shouder to hem, waist measures about 9” around.

Condition:
Excellent condition, bright blue color is still very clean looking, fabric is very soft long staple cotton remininscent of lawn but with a weightier hand. This is a really sweet dress with fine stying that would make a French or German girl smile!

Price: $225.00 Contact us for more information

Item : Very Early Organdy Dress and OverDress:    
       Blue/White Windowpane Checks  

Description:
You will have a difficult time finding a dress as early as this in such lovely condition! ! Made of a soft cotton organdy, it has pale blue windowpane checking allover. Underdress is simple styling with a plain neckline and gathered skirt at the waistline. Sleeves are puffed and edged with diamond shaped delicate crochet lacing. back closure with very early single strand hooks and eyes.The overdress has an apron styling with matching lace edging all around the edges. It ties at the waist to a bow back with a wide matching sash- and gives a fancier feel to the whole ensemble. Simple yet elegant design made about 1880, based on the fabric and sewing techniques.
Dress measures about 16” from the neckline to hem. Sleeve length: 6.5-7 ” to wrist. Waist: adjustable with the tie but about 12-14” around.

Condition:
The dress is in very good condition with minimal slight age fading to the blue color. A few areas of VERY light darkening: tiny edge of the overdress, and a walnut sized area on the rear of the underdress, completely covered by the overdress. (You have to REALLY look to find these!) Considering the age, it is in remarkable condition. A beeautiful and delicate dress which would make your early bebe look that way she did when she was purchased! A lovely addition to your collection.

Price: SOLD  Contact us for more information

Item: Antique Early Plaid Dress with Great Yellow SILK Plastron
      Blouson Styling: For a special BEBE!   

Description:
This is a great dress: interesting fabric with high-end styling! Made of a fine quality cotton, it is a great plaid of dark blue, thin yellow and a sand stripes. Center plastron insert is a beautiful golden yellow silk and has a row of gathering at the top. Neckband of the same silk material. lace brettelles over each shoulder.
Although stretched out inour pic, the top will be bloused when on a doll, with the plastron falling into pleats at the front. Sewn waistband, back closure with very early single strand hooks and eyes. Dates to around 1890 to about 1910. 
Measures 10.5” around waist, arm is 6”, and length is about 12 ”from shoulder to hem.

Condition:
Very good to excellent, the cotton is in very good condition. The colors are crisp and very bright. Silk is soft and obviously escaped the metallic weighting done around this time as it has not melted at all.

Price: $75.00  Contact us for more information

Item : Pink Rosebud Dropwaist Dress; FACTORY MADE 

Description:What an adorable dress! Very delicate in a both styling and fabric. It is made from a soft ecru cotton lawn fabric with tiny double and single rosebuds allover. The yoke features a delicate lace insert with tiny ruffled edging at the neckline and the sleeve edges.Back closure with four mOP buttons and buttonholes.

Measures about 10" long from shoulder to hem; about 15" around the dropped waist (would be the hip measurement) and about 6" from shoulder to shoulder. Call us or email for more specific fitting information.

This is a factory made dress in beautiful condition--and it is ready to dress up your favorite little girl!

Condition: Excellent condition. Clean and intact with no apparent damage: fabric softened to a beautiful hand.

Price: $225.00  Contact us for more information

Item : Stylish Brown Straw Hat with ORIG LABEL   
       Excellent Condition and Material

Description:
A GREAT doll hat--dates to the first third of the last century! Made from a shiny woven straw with looped edges. Features brown velvet ribbon around the crown. Inside is edged with wide brown grosgrain ribbon. Edge of brim is 7 layers of straw thick--to make a thick edge. AND.....it even has a LABEL!   Label reads: Livingston Bros San Francisco in script. It could have been a child's hat, but it has a very small head opening--I think it was a doll's hat made by a prestigious department store to look just like "mommy's" !

Measures about 10” long from edge to edge, brim is about 2” wide. Crown is 1.5" tall and the head opening is 4.5" across. It would fit a doll with a head circumference of about 10-13" (depending on the puffiness of the hair!)

Condition:
EXCELLENT condition, color is a yummy chocolate brown--it is a very stylish hat. Picture does NOT do it justice--we will add another one later on a doll so you can see how pretty it really is!

Price: $195.00       Contact us for more information

Item:19th Century Very Fancy French Hat for Bebe:WOW!  
      To Fit a Bebe doll: 24-26" Size    

Description: This is one of the earliest larger straw hats we have found. Styling is very fancy and it features great decorations of braided and woven straw with sequins and glass beading added for sparkle. Fabric flowers on side of brim and underneath brim near the face. Additional flowers made of curled and sewn straw around the rear. Inside crown is lined with brown glazed cotton and a tie of black elastic which I think was added later. Wired around the edge of the brim for posing.

It must have been for a very upscale young lady! I would date it to about 1870-1880 and, from the detailing, was probably made in Paris for a Jumeau, Steiner or Bru-level doll.

Condition: Good condition considering its age. There are some small area of loss in the straw and a few sequins missing and a bit of shelf dust, but overall it is in very good condition.

Price: SOLD     Contact us for more information

Item: Pristine White Organdy Dress  
       Factory made for a Large Doll

Description:Wow! You would have a hard time finding a whiter dress! This is an organdy dress, sheer and stiff as is all true organdy. It has great style--in the Russian mode that was so very popular in the first part of the 1900's. Edged with tiny lace trim, it features featherstitched embroidery allover. White capped bretelles, side-over panels at each hip which fall to long points in the rear, and a very full skirt with many, many box pleats. Back closure with buttonholes and MOP buttons.
Measures 16” from neck to hem, shoulder to shoulder is about 7", waistline is about 14"

Condition:
Very good to excellent condition,very very clean. Fabric still has excellent integrity. A really good quality dress, factory made with unusual styling that was the height of fashion at the turn of the last century..

Price: SOLD      Contact us for more information

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Item: 2 Pc. French Style Factory Sailor Outfit
       of Chambray Denim!   

Description: Great outfit for your little maritime girl! A two piece outfit made of soft blue denim with great color: very similar to the Jumeau style maritime outfits that were so popular at the turn of the 20th century. (And did you know that our word "denim" comes from deNimes, France???)

The skirt features pleats in the front and back radiating from a center box pleat. Waistband is double topstitched with white thread as is the waistband of the top. Edged with white twill trimming and accented with beautiful Mother of Pearl buttons with carved circles on them. Back closure is with two hooks and eyes on the top.

Measures about 14" from shoulder to hem, sleeves are 6.5" long, chest measures about 14" around (it is blouson) waist measurement is about 13". Would probably fit a 24-26" doll. Call us or email for more specific fitting information.

Condition:
Condition is very good with great quality fabric still very bright in color. No staining or damage. An outfit of this style and quality makes an incredible visual effect on a doll: it can transport her right to Paris at the turn of the last century!

Price: $250.00       Contact us for more information

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