Sometimes in life something wonderful takes you by surprise.

Louise Leffler gave me her adorable 

childhood Hall's folding dollhouse above.

The house has 4 rooms that are no longer conjoined, 

but the graphics are all there and still truly vibrant. 

Above is the bedroom to this dollhouse, and 

I hope to display the other 3 rooms in future pages.

(I had purchased the mini version of this house

 last year from Carol Norton who created the mini from 

her own dollhouse.) You are seeing 

a dollhouse within a dollhouse!

The Fold-Away 4 Room Dollhouse

 was made in 1958

by Arcade Lithographing Corp. for Hall's

Lifetime Toys. The walls are 18 inches high.

The floor is 20"x 20".

(The shipping weight to my house

was 13 lbs. It is very heavy!) 

The wooden furniture you see

 was all hand made in the 50's by Hall's

and includes the canopy bed and harder to find

blanket chest. 

The photo above is a scan from Jean Mahan's

Doll Furniture 1950's-1980's ID book .

(If you are interested in doll furniture 

to scale for 8-10" dolls, 

this is the one book you should own).

Repro Ginny Susanne is playing with her pretend 

"Strombecker" furniture

and mini boxes I made to coordinate.

2004 Repro Ginny Glad Tiny Miss #42 

is playing with her pretend pink and yellow

"J. Chein furniture" I "created" from some old

and newer miniature plastic dollhouse pieces.

I made the Chein yellow dollhouse box to the right

and it measures  3 1/2" long.

All the mini boxes you see were once for sale from my Home Page.

The pink plastic people are all vintage

and look so cute with this mini house.

I remember this ad so vividly from teen magazines.

"100 Little Dolls for $1.00"

I won the original advertisement brochure, dolls, 

and original mailing box on Ebay.

(I believe my box has close to a hundred dolls inside)

Can you tell I love this doll? 

She was made for

Stella's Garden Party Event

Stella also sold a matching Sparky pup

with Vogue box. I had to have him!

Sparky and his leash

Pink COA above states limited edition of 100 

Hall's blanket chest

All my Strombecker mini boxes fit neatly inside.

so Ginny uses this as her toy box

2013 Easter repro Ginny dolls  

(and Halls Fold-Away 

Dollhouse)  Page 2

 ;

Click above to see 

Madame Alexander Wendy 

dressed like an Easter egg Pg 3!

Carolyn@cataumet.net