Lot 1 , 'Museum Villa': A mid 19th century furnished English dolls’ house

'Museum Villa': A mid 19th century furnished English dolls’ house, the fine facade with a heavily rusticated central door case flanked by glazed windows, with acid etched lower sections, the walls marked out to simulate ashlar, the interior with four rooms, on original mahogany stand, 136cm high.

Illustrated by Jean Latham, Dolls’ Houses, A Personal Choice, (1969), p.150 and discussed at p.135.

Purchased from Peterborough Museum.
£1,500-2,000

Condition:
The facade detaching from main structure, otherwise generally sound, later papers to interior, condition commensurate with age and use, the mahogany stand with one leg loose (present without structural damage).

Sold for £1,500