April is Doll Month at Sunflower Auction - We will be selling the lifetime doll collection of Mrs. Virginia Dean over the four Saturdays in April. The collection consists of over 10,000 dolls and accessories. Mrs. Dean's dolls have been featured in Madame Alexander books by Patricia Smith. Mrs. Dean was a member of the Madame Alexander Doll Club for many years. The collection consists of wonderful Madame Alexander dolls from the 1950's to the present in original outfits, many with original boxes (Alexander-kins, Cissette, Cissy, Elise, Lissy, Little Genius, Maggie, Margaret and others), antique bisque dolls (German, French and Japanese), antique and vintage composition dolls, Shirley Temple dolls, vintage hard plastic dolls, doll reference books, paper dolls, tons of doll clothing and accessories, Peggy Nisbet, china heads, Nancy Ann Storybook dolls, Vogue Ginny's, Effanbee and Ideal plus the complete estate contents consisting of antique furniture, china, glassware, figurines and more. This living estate is unlike anything we have ever seen before. You have to see it to believe it. We expect that it will take four long days of auctioning to settle this estate, so please be prepared to spend each day with us.
We will have three catalogued sessions, each followed by an uncatalogued session of dolls and estate items. The final Saturday will be all uncatalogued dolls and estate items. We have two 24-foot trucks full of uncatalogued items to sell. On days with fair weather, we will sell the uncatalogued items out back on tables. On days with inclement weather, we will sell the uncatalogued items, primarily more modern boxed dolls, in the gallery.
Session 1: April 5, 10AM - Madame Alexander Dolls plus dolls and estate items
Proxibid Catalog Print Catalog Preview Friday 1-5, Saturday 8-10
Session 2: April 12, 10AM - Madame Alexander Dolls plus dolls and estate items
Proxibid Catalog Print Catalog Preview Friday 1-5, Saturday 8-10
You Never Know What
Might Turn Up!
Sold for $1,540 Saturday.
Session 3: April 19, 10AM - Antique and Vintage Bisque, Composition and Hard Plastic plus dolls and estate items
Proxibid Catalog Print Catalog Preview Friday 1-5, Saturday 8-10
You Never Know What
Might Turn Up!
Sold for $1,540 Saturday.
Saturday, April 26, 10AM (Preview Friday 1-5, Saturday 8-10) - Doll & Toy Auction - Selling the last of the Dean estate. All uncatalogued items and box lots this final week including tons of antique to modern dolls, clothing and accessories, Hummels, GI Joes, Erector Set, Viewmasters, China Sets, Hotwheels, Tin Litho, Battery Op. & Friction Toys, MIB Vintage Toys & Games, Antique Oak Secretaries, Bedroom Sets. This is a fantastic sale that you don’t want to miss! Food service will be available. We will sell outside if the weather is nice. This will be a gigantic auction as we still have around 400 boxes of dolls and toys to go through!
