~Ansella~

From the very moment I first saw the angel dolls with wooden architectural 'wings' dressed in vintage christening gown in the Seasons at Seven Gates Farm book many years ago, I was intrigued by these dolls. Ansella the angel is 28" tall with rusted wire and star. She herself is 23" tall, the wing span is 13". Ansella wears 2 old (color tone of age) ornate pillow cases, with lace trims for her skirts, covered by a very old yellowed from age infant sweater, all original. The doll herself is aged stiffened muslin, with old mother of pearl button eyes, stitched nose and sparse string hair. The wings are an old wood trim piece with original white paint still visible. She hangs with a wire hanger. $115.00 plus shipping & insurance.

~Zeldah Hungerhold~

In my collection for many years is Zeldah Hungerhold. Always named after a being who lived in these parts long ago, Zeldah is pure primitive. Her body, legs and arms are fashioned from old thin black cotton stockings. Her head is covered and hand sewn in primitive stitching to the neck of obvious thicker cotton stocking with visible seams and mends, threadbare hole in some places.
She has shoe button eyes, a sparse wisp of thin linen stitched in naive threads for a nose, with a swatch of red fabric hand stitched on with ambling child like stitches. Her blackish/brown nubby hair hand sewn to her head covers down to the nape of her neck. Zeldah wears a olde white Christening dress with age evident in tears on the sleeves, that I never bothered to mend, and a vintage lovely hand sewn 'waist' with lace trim and original button atop the dress. 19" long.

 $165.00 plus shipping & insurance.

SOLD..thank you

I thank you for your time, in fond regard, Tilda.
 

 

 

Herda Drobney is a simple primitive black doll, fashioned from soft brown flannels, painted and aged. She has a simple face with double stitched circle eyes, thin stitched mouth and an added nose. She wears a very old thin original dress, a Christening dress perhaps in it newness, now showing signs of natural aged coloring and thin here and there. 24" tall. Beside Herda is her constant companion Maxwell. A sheep pull toy, making use of the cotton batting from an olde quilt I salvaged the insides from, I hand sewed (no glue) the cotton in its natural color, to a muslin sheep body I made. The sheep is 8"x7", and stands atop a cart, from old farm wood in original color, with old wood wheels, 6-1/2x4-1/4". A piece of green wool remnant hangs around his necks, along with a string of old bobbin thread. He is 'pulled' by an old wood thread spool with a string of bobbin yarn. I left some of the original heavy thread of the batting in place as a testament of what this batting originally was.

$169 for Herda & Maxwell plus shipping & insurance.

SOLD, thanks

 I thank you for your time in looking.

 

~The Farmhouse CD~
 

Since moving to the old farmhouse of our ancestors in June 2007, we have amassed over 250 photographs of the rooms and vignettes of our primitive furniture and collections of treenware, tinware, crocks & folkart. Sunshine dances and creeps through the windows, across the old wood floors, and is captured often with only a brief moment in time. The shadows and light calms the soul and brings a smile to the heart of those who watch it move to another area. We have come full circle. The long gone ancestors smile, and we rejoyce in our life here in their extraordinary farmhouse.

$15 post paid

 

 

 

 

 

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