Showing posts with label carved doll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carved doll. Show all posts

Saturday, January 7, 2012

19th Century Folk Art Doll Made from a Bedpost




Carved wooden figure of a woman with leather arms and torso and a cloth head scarf. According to an accompanying note, it was made for Mrs. Walter Miller in Linesville, Pennsylvania by her father, from a bedpost, when she was three years old.

Original estimate of $300-600, this just sold for $10,000.00 (w/o premium)! At Garth's.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

A Group of Five Carved Wood Primitive Dolls


Sold for $2,350 (including premium) at Christie's 2001 sale from the collection of Kendra & Allan Daniel.

Friday, July 2, 2010

The Whittler





Hand carved doll and the homemade knife used to whittle it, carved by Frank Charles Lucco about 1930.

Available here.