Various Antique & Vintage Dolls Have Just Gone Up For Sale...

A variety of antique and vintage miniature German dolls have just gone up for sale today on KT Miniatures website. Here are one or two of them...

Antique German Bisque Doll With Long Apron

The apron criss-crosses at the back.

I love her bobbed hair!

This little bisque beauty, possibly from the early 1900s, has wired limbs.

She has lovely painted features. 

I think she has been re-wigged, but it has been nicely done.

This vintage bisque doll has a replacement dress but the apron may be original. 

This doll with bisque head and limbs but fabric body, just makes me smile...I love her face!

She is marked Germany and has number on back of head piece.

Look at those thin legs...fabulous!

These dolls and others can be found on KT Miniatures website, on the following link:

https://ktminiatures.com/dolls/

Some rare and magnificent pieces from a unique personal collection is about to go up for sale over the next day or so. 

Celia

KT Miniatures

Some Pieces Of A Fabulous Collection Of Miniatures Now Up For Sale - Beginning With Drapers Shop & Jill Bennett Dolls

I have just begun listing some fabulous miniatures that belonged to a well-known and distinguished personality within the dolls house world, and were part of their amazing personal collection.  I am on a promise to find good homes for all the wonderful items.

And so it begins...

 Replica Of An Antique German Draper/Haberdashery By Modelmakers Bruce & Gina Coombes. 

At first glance I assumed that this was a genuine antique German shop from over 100 years ago. It is absolutely stunning and looks authentic. 

But the inscription underneath is the giveaway, as it states that this was made by modelmakers Bruce & Gina Coombes, from Lamyatt - Somerset - England. 

I have endeavoured to research who these people are but to no avail. The daughter of the previous owner knows little about this shop, other than her family had a house near Lamyatt in the 1970s. 

The shop is of wooden construction, with shelves on the back wall, one central cupboard with opening door and eight removable drawers. 

There is a fixed decorative counter with brass measure attached to the counter for measuring material... how fantastic is that! 

On each side panel there is an inbuilt mirror with a delightful shaped frame.

Along the back there is an exquisite lovely carved decorative top pelmet in a two-tone green painted finish with gold highlights. 

The decorative pillars on each front edge are in a cream and green finish with attractive turned beading. 

Even the front of the floor edge has a lovely decorative two-tone green edge. 

And finally, a really lovely touch is that there are seven pieces of wooden "rollers" for wrapping material lengths around for display.

I have placed this for sale on the "Old Dolls Houses For Sale" section on KT Miniatures website. 
 https://ktminiatures.com/old-dolls-houses/

UPDATE:** Just by pure chance, whilst looking through a 1976 issue of International Dolls’ House News, there is a whole paragraph under the title….”Shopping Around” with Amy Grant, about MR BRUCE COOMBES of Lamyatt, Shepton Mallett, Somerset. As well attractive dolls house furniture, he specialised in models of private homes, and also had a range of dolls houses in different styles and periods, plus delightful shops. One could even write to him for a black and white brochure. If only I could get my hands on one of those brochures, it would be fascinating to see what all those had looked like!

Jill Bennett Dolls
Three dolls by the highly renowned doll maker Jill Bennett, are part of the wonderful collection, and have just gone up for sale. They each have porcelain heads and pewter bodies, and are believed to be some of Jill's early dolls. They are pricey, as you can imagine, and are for the serious discerning dolls house collector. 

Scullery Maid
She has been created in a semi kneeling position and is meant to be cleaning in some way, such as scrubbing the floor or maybe cleaning the fire out. She has a porcelain head and wired pewter body. 

Sitting Doll In Period Costume Holding Baby
She has been made to sit and is holding a baby. She has porcelain head and hands, and a wired pewter body. The baby has been simply made and its wooden face with painted features can barely be seen. The baby is removable so she could be holding something else if you wish. 

Sitting Doll In Period Costume
This is a female doll made in a sitting position, with porcelain head and wired pewter body. 
These dolls are for sale and can be seen on the following link:
https://ktminiatures.com/dolls/

There is a vast amount of antique and vintage pieces as part of this collection, some quite rare early German pieces, and I will be putting them up for sale on KT Miniatures website over the next few weeks. 
Celia 
KT Miniatures

What A To Do....!

2020 did not get off to a great start where KT Miniatures is concerned!

So there I was, back at my desk at the beginning of January with my brand new KT Miniatures website, all excited and raring to go....then in the blink of an eye, my computer died without any warning! 

Yes, I did have back up for most of my stuff but one or two important things slipped through the net, and worst of all, the back up for my emails failed...I lost them all! 

To say that I was stressed, upset, worried, etc...was putting it mildly, and a nervous breakdown nearly ensued!

So I found myself having to purchase a new computer, along with all the peripheral software, etc. And so the nightmare continued. Couldn't get Outlook to work for a few days, neither could I get the new photographic software to work so I could not list any new stock to the website, neither could I get the wifi printer to work. In fact the list of technical problems were endless and KT Miniatures ground to a halt. My apologies if you have sent me emails during the first couple of weeks of January and not got a response, or your emails have bounced back. Well this is why. 

The good news is, fingers crossed, that with the help of daughter, sons and even the IT guy who set up my website...all seems to be working now. But I think I have more grey hairs today than I did on the 1st of January!!!

So if you have not seen my new website yet, with its new address...please do take a look, I hope you like it:

https://ktminiatures.com

As long as there are no more gremlins or hold ups, I hope to begin listing more vintage stock in earnest to KT Miniatures during this coming week. 

Celia

Happy New Year From KT Miniatures & New Beginnings...

I hope you have all had a fabulous time over the festive season and let's see what 2020 brings! I hope it is kind to us all....and I look forward to my 24th year of trading as KT Miniatures! 

HAPPY 

NEW YEAR 

FROM KT MINIATURES

On A Cold & Frosty Morning, After The Night Before....

Please note that as from now my brand new website has a new address due to the installation of a SSL certificate, so that any data transmitted between KT Miniatures website and a visitor is encrypted, hence giving us all more security. So it is no longer http://www.ktminiatures.com but.....

https://ktminiatures.com/

We encountered some niggles and teething problems with the website for the first couple of days (particularly with the mobile version), but fingers, toes and everything crossed, all should be more or less OK now. The big test will be when I embark on listing a load of new vintage stock to the website at the end of this week...so watch this space. Let's hope I don't press any wrong buttons!

Celia 
KT Miniatures

New Website At Last...And Yet Another Year Coming To An End!

Am delighted to say that at long last KT Miniatures' new website that has been weeks in the planning has finally gone live! 

There is still more work to be done on the Archives and new stock needs to be added, but for now I am going to have a complete break away from the computer. These past few days in particular have been manic as I was given a crash course on how to use a new editorial system by the lovely Thame based IT guy Greg Smith (Website DNA), who has the patience of a saint!  My old website was outdated and becoming problematic with increasing niggles, so I had no choice but to get a new website. 

https://ktminiatures.com/

After a few discussions with Greg, we decided to have much fewer pages, consolidate most of the antique and vintage miniatures under "rooms" only, with individual category buttons in each room. Hopefully now this will be far more user friendly and I hope you like it. 

So what a lovely way to bring 2019 to a close and I very much look forward to being back on here with you at the beginning of 2020. Thank you for your custom and friendship throughout 2019.

 And now without further ado, I would just like to wish you all...

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS 
PLUS A
HAPPY, HEALTHY & PEACEFUL NEW YEAR!

Celia X

KT Miniatures