Early Scandinavia, 18th Century Europe, and a Miniature Museum
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A Miniature Colonial House – Delft Tiles
Delft Tiles. The blue and white tiles around the fireplace are rendered with wallpaper, but real tiles would have been made of fired clay. Delft, a type of tin-glazed earthenware pottery produced in the Netherlands, was very popular in the American colonies and...
A Miniature French Chateau – Regency Bonnets
Regency Bonnets. Since these bonnets are very similar to the bonnet the Beverly Dahl doll is wearing, I think it is safe to say these are Beverly Dahl creations as well. One has a price tag attached of $23.50, with a purchase year of approximately 1995. The Jane...
A Miniature French Chateau – Regency Hair and Hats
Regency Hair and Hats. Bonnets were often made of straw and elaborately decorated with ribbon and feathers. The doll of the left is a Beverly Dahl. I don't have a source for the other doll.
A Miniature Colonial House – Georgian Hair
Georgian Hair. This six-inch doll has a set of wigs. Women in the eighteenth century did not wear wigs unless they had lost their real hair due to disease or age. They did use hairpieces, however, to add extra curls and buns. Hairpieces clipped into their natural hair...
A Miniature Colonial House – Ruth Pollock Furniture
Painted Furniture. The large cabinet with the Georgian horse and rider motif is a Ruth Pollock original, dated 1999. The trunk is signed by Ruth Pollock in 1998. I found a note tucked into the trunk about regarding Ruth Pollock. Sept. 2014 These are my favorite...
A Miniature Colonial House – Blue Bedroom
The Blue Bedroom. The cursive signature etched into the wood of the bedframe is difficult to read, but likely reads "M. Diehl."
A Miniature Colonial House – An Oxymoron
An Historical Oxymoron, or Right Era, Wrong Country. My mother made this tiled stove and painted it to match the motif in the toile wallpaper. Toile is a French creation from the mid eighteenth century that the British adored. Tiled warming stoves were invented in...
A Miniature Colonial House – Yellow Bedroom
The Yellow Bedroom. The portrait is Abigail Adams by Gilbert Stuart. The doll has changed her hair. She has a set of wigs. More on wigs and hats later. The bed and chair are signed "N. Belt '83." The chamber pot would normally be hidden under the bed skirt. The house...
A Miniature Colonial House – Canopy Bed
The Yellow Bed. This is my favorite piece in the entire collection. The bed frame is signed "N. Belt '83." This bed was purchased at a miniature show or shop, back before there was online shopping. The coverlet is embroidered matelasse, and the quilt at the foot of...
A Miniature Colonial House – Women’s Fashion
Women’s Fashion: Georgian or Regency? The easiest way to tell Georgian, or late eighteenth century, from Regency, or early nineteenth century, women’s fashion apart is by the waistline. Georgian waistlines sat at the hip, often with a point just below the navel....
A Miniature Colonial House – Men’s Fashion
Men’s Fashion: Georgian or Regency? The term Georgian refers to time when the first four King Georges reigned in England, from 1714 to 1820. The term Regency refers to the time when King George IV was declared unfit to rule and England was ruled by the Prince Regent,...
Regency Daffodils
We live on the site of an early American farmstead in the central Midwest. The first settler to the area was in 1802, and the first lots were sold in 1854. I found a patch of naturalized daffodils in the large woodland that has been undisturbed since the farmstead...