Goubaud's Paper Models, doll and made-up clothes

Lot 1922

1922

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Goubaud's Paper Models, doll and made-up clothes
a Gaultier fashionable doll with bisque swivel head, blue eyes, pierced ears, gussetted kid body with individually stitched fingers and bronze silk dress with train and matching hat decorated with yellow silk - 19in. 48cm. high, impressed 4 on head and shoulder; twelve elaborate and very rare coloured tissue paper models of dresses, hats and underclothes by Madame Goubaud of Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion; a letter from Madame Goubaud dated 1877 about the doll and instructions for keeping the body clean and replaceing the head; and other clothes and underclothes including an olive green silk dress edged with lace and a blue printed cotton Princess line frock
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Lot Essay

The dress the doll is wearing is a copy of one of the tissue models, there are two other copies of patterns and an interesting article by Evelyn Jane Coleman about Madame Goubaud and this doll from Dolls The Collector's Magazine, September 1990

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