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Book Norah Wellings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gillian Trotter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780875886510
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Norah Wellings written by Gillian Trotter and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-two years of Norah Wellings' English cloth dolls and soft toys will come to life in vivid colour photographs complete with important identification information. The history of The Victoria Toy Works Factory and the biographies of the founders -- Norah Wellings and her brother, Leonard, are incorporated in this long awaited research volume. The book romances the characters created by the legendary Norah Wellings including details on how they were made. Storage tips and other useful information for the collector is detailed in the book.

Book Black Dolls

Download or read book Black Dolls written by Debbie Behan Garrett and published by Debbie Behan Garrett. This book was released on 2008 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collectors and non-collectors will experience the passion for collecting dolls in Ms. Garrett's second, FULL COLOR, black-doll reference book, which is a comprehensive celebration with up-to-date values of over 1000 vintage-to-modern black dolls. Doll genres celebrated, referenced, and valued include early dolls and memorabilia, cloth, fashion, manufactured, artist, one-of-a-kind, celebrity, and paper dolls. `A to Z Tips on Collecting,¿ `Doll Creativity,¿ and loads of `Added Extras¿ will entertain, enlighten, excite, and encourage the most discriminating collector. Readers will experience five years of the author's continuous and extensive doll research combined with nearly 20 years of doll-collecting experience. Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting, and Experiencing the Passion, is an informative, must-have reference for any doll collector¿s library.

Book The Ultimate Doll Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caroline Georgina Goodfellow
  • Publisher : MetroBooks (NY)
  • Release : 2001-10
  • ISBN : 9781586632342
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Ultimate Doll Book written by Caroline Georgina Goodfellow and published by MetroBooks (NY). This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of more than 400 dolls spanning two centuries. Each doll shown in original clothes or period costumes. Advice on care and collecting.

Book The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls

Download or read book The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls written by Debbie Behan Garrett and published by Debbie Behan Garrett. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collectors will delight in acquiring the first and only Black dolls book that is completely published in Full Color! Author Debbie Garrett has written an extensive book of reference on vintage, modern, fashion and artist Black dolls. Featured in this book are Black dolls made from cloth, bisque, celluloid, composition, rubber, wood, and hard plastic. Fashion dolls, modern artist dolls and other doll categories are covered. This long overdue, insightful book includes a price guide and tips.

Book Cloth Dolls

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brenda Brightmore
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005-01
  • ISBN : 9781870586528
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Cloth Dolls written by Brenda Brightmore and published by . This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a range of Brenda's dolls complete with patterns and numerous step-by-step line drawings. Every process is shown in detail from cutting patterns to painting faces. Her experience in adult education ensures that even absolute beginners will be able to create their own special 'Brenda Brightmore' dolls.

Book Famous Character Dolls

Download or read book Famous Character Dolls written by Susan Brewer and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the popular Famous series, Famous Dolls celebrates dolls in film, TV, cartoons, books, comics and comic strips, as well as toys such as Hamble in Playschool. It also explores the world of celebrity dolls including stars such as Shirley Temple and Mae West, pop star dolls including Michael Jackson and Cher, and dolls representing royalty. Written by leading doll expert, Susan Brewer, the author of British Dolls in the 1950s and British Dolls in the 1960s, the book starts with a series of essays setting dolls in context and exploring their role in popular culture. The main part of the book is an impressive A-Z of famous dolls, with symbols to show in which field they became famous (e.g. cartoons, toys or comic strips). The stories behind each of the dolls are told, including the tragic tale of Raggedy Ann and how a little girl inspired one of the most iconic character dolls of all time. A must-buy book for everyone who has ever own or collected dolls or is interested in popular culture.Did you know? The author of Raggedy Ann, Johnny Gruelle, was a vehement anti-vaccination campaigner after his young daughter died when she was vaccinated at school without his consent Angela Rippon created the Victoria Plum doll series based on a plum tree in her garden Holly Hobbie is an author and illustrator who named the famous patchwork-wearing little girl after her. It became a popular doll in the 1970s

Book Ireland  Enlightenment and the English Stage  1740 1820

Download or read book Ireland Enlightenment and the English Stage 1740 1820 written by David O'Shaughnessy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the contribution of Irish writers to the Georgian English stage; argues that theatre is an important strand of the Irish Enlightenment.

Book 8th Blue Book of Dolls and Values

Download or read book 8th Blue Book of Dolls and Values written by Jan Foulke and published by Hobby House Press. This book was released on 1987-10 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each collectible or antique doll is priced and identified by maker, size, country of origin, marks, and other details.

Book The Collector s Guide to British Dolls Since 1920

Download or read book The Collector s Guide to British Dolls Since 1920 written by Colette Mansell and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established over many years as the definitive book on the subject, Colette Mansell's monumental work is now available in paperback for the first time. Tracing the history of doll-making in Britain from 1920 to the present day, this book gives detailed information on the dolls produced by large factories and well-known companies, as well as those made by small concerns, cottage industries and individual doll-makers. The innovative and realistic fabric dolls made by Chad Valley, Farnell, Dean's Rag Book Company, Norah Wellings and others during the 1920s and 1930s are great favourites with collectors, and extensive research has been carried out by the author. Sections on doll's-house dolls, costume dolls, unidentified and miscellaneous dolls, and the valuation of dolls are included, along with a fascinating chapter devoted to the now highly collectable dolls of the Royal Family. This book is intended not only for those beginning a collection but also for the experienced and discerning collector.

Book Dolls   A Guide for Collectors

Download or read book Dolls A Guide for Collectors written by Clara Hallard Fawcett and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains comprehensive guide to collecting dolls, containing information on the history of dolls, buying and selling, restoration, and a much more. Profusely illustrated and full of interesting information, "Dolls - A Guide for Collectors" constitutes a timeless resource for doll enthusiasts and is not to be missed by modern collectors. Contents include: "What is a Doll", "On Collecting Dolls-Where to Buy, What to Pay, and Dolls Worth Collecting", "Early Toy Dolls", "Dolls of the Nineteenth Century", "China-Headed Dolls and their Marks", "Bidque Dolls and their Marks", "Dolls of Papier Mache and Composition", "Hand-made Dolls", "The Christmas Crib", "The Cloth Doll", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on dolls.

Book Hello Girls   Boys

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Veart
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2015-02-01
  • ISBN : 1775587630
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Hello Girls Boys written by David Veart and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toys are fun—but they are also serious business, as David Veart makes clear in this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from Maori voyagers to 21st-century gamers. Deploying the tools of archaeology and oral history, Veart digs through a few centuries of pocket knives and plasticine to take us deep into the childhoods of Aotearoa. His story explores how people made their fun on the far side of the ocean—the Maori and Pakeha learned knucklebones from each other; young Aucklanders established the largest Meccano club in the world; and Fun Ho!, Torro, Lincoln International, and Luvme helped to build a successful local toy industry under the shade of import protection. Hello Girls & Boys! covers the crazes and collecting, playtimes and preoccupations of big and little New Zealand kids for generations. With its memories of knucklebones and double happys, golliwogs and tin canoes, marbles and Meccano, Tonka trucks and Buzzy Bees, this is a seriously fun New Zealand toy story.

Book British Dolls of the 1950s

Download or read book British Dolls of the 1950s written by Susan Brewer and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photos, descriptions, and fascinating history for dedicated doll collectors. In the 1950s, a new material—plastic—revolutionized the doll trade and made dolls affordable for people of all classes. This book focuses specifically on British dolls of that decade, offering not only useful information for collectors but a glimpse into the history and culture that surrounded these cherished toys. Along with photos and descriptions, this unique guide covers: doll manufacturers must-buy dolls what to spot when buying dolls how to avoid buying fakes a where-to-buy directory doll hospitals specialist museums

Book Dolls

Download or read book Dolls written by Wendy Lavitt and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1983 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For collectors of all types of American dolls made from the 18th century to the present, as well as French and German dolls widely sold in America. Color photographs and full descriptions of 357 representative examples, along with collecting tips, a price guide, and much more.

Book Blue Book

Download or read book Blue Book written by Jan Foulke and published by Hobby House Press. This book was released on 1989-04 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doll industry's bible has been updated with new information and more than 600 photographs, making it the most complete and up-to-date doll guide available.

Book Wellington Through Time Revised Edition

Download or read book Wellington Through Time Revised Edition written by Allan Frost and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of Wellington in Shropshire illustrated through old and modern pictures in a fully updated edition.

Book Shropshire at War  1939   45

Download or read book Shropshire at War 1939 45 written by Janet Johnstone and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the outbreak of the Second World War, Shropshire authorities immediately implemented pre-arranged plans to cope with the approaching conflict on the Home Front, including the building of air raid shelters and pillboxes and the renovation of redundant camps and disused airfields.Men not eligible for the services volunteered for the LDV (later the Home Guard), the AFS and the ARP. Women were recruited for a variety of other posts, with members of the WVS dealing with a massive influx of evacuees from Merseyside and Smethwick right from the start.Shropshires factories turned to armament production, coal mines increased their output and farmers cultivated more acreage (an extra 47,000 acres ploughed for food production in the first year of the war).PoW Camps sprang up, with prisoners frequently seen being transported to work on local farms, while uniformed servicemen and women from Britain, the Commonwealth and America became familiar sights on the streets.Using a variety of sources, including newspapers and verbal testimonies, the author paints a picture of the effect that six years of war had on those Salopians who, when others marched away, remained on the Home Front. Their struggles, acceptance of shortages, hardships and determination not to give in are reflected throughout this book.

Book Tribal Fantasies

Download or read book Tribal Fantasies written by J. Mackay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This transnational collection discusses the use of Native American imagery in twentieth and twenty-first-century European culture. With examples ranging from Irish oral myth, through the pop image of Indians promulgated in pornography, to the philosophical appropriations of Ernst Bloch or the European far right, contributors illustrate the legend of "the Indian." Drawing on American Indian literary nationalism, postcolonialism, and transnational theories, essays demonstrate a complex nexus of power relations that seemingly allows European culture to build its own Native images, and ask what effect this has on the current treatment of indigenous peoples.