I found this picture of this doll house and fell in Love! Is this not the greatest doll house you have ever seen!
Mexican Doll House The small mansion, believed to be is a copy of a house which once stood in Puebla, was discovered in an antique shop in Puebla in the spring of 1977. Although the facade of the house has some Moorish features, it is French in flavor, a reflection of many full-sized mansions in Puebla and Mexico City built over the years after the arrival of the troops of Napoleon III in 1862. In 1922, the house was wired and redecorated, giving the interior some feeling of the 1920s. The Paige automobile in the driveway is, along with a pair of early radio towers, from this period.
Fully furnished, the house contains a drawing room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bath, music room, and chapel. A section of the removable facade covers each of these.
from 1890-1920.
: The “Mexican Mansion,” a superlative dollhouse, took everyone by surprise at Noel Barrett’s sale of the collection of the Washington Dolls’ House and Museum on June 19, when it sold for $231,000.
The dollhouse was made in about 1890 and was presumed to be a copy of a small European-style mansion in Puebla.
http://antiquesandthearts.com/AW-2004-07-06-13-40-20p1.htm
http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/articles_archive/articles/Nov04/noel1104.htm
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I love old things! I’ve been collecting Vintage and antiques since I was practically a kid! I love researching the Edwardian era. … I am so… sentimental and concerned with things of the past…my family and friends cease to talk to me at times. I love period movies: Horseman on the Roof, Wuthering Heights, The Woodlanders, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Bleak house, and John Adams. My favorite actress is Juliette Binoche, in the movie Chocolat. I know it’s just a movie but, I feel if people would act that kind the world would be a better place to live.
I am on a constant mission to discover treasures; I love one-of-a-kind items, no one else has. Because I buy too much, occasionally I sell my items; Vintage prom, purses, antiques and incredible Edwardian jewelry. Originally I started this blog for myself, my little space to keep all my research notes, price realized and my photo creations. It seems there is more to this blog now, hopefully you can feel my love for the past.
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This marvelous house can be seen in person at Angels Attic, a doll house museum in Santa Monica California. They acquired it when the Washington Dollhouse Museum closed its doors.