It's not that I needed, wanted,
or have room for another house...
but as I perusing a local junk mall
a few weeks ago, I spotted this
early Rich Toys house for sale.
Despite three missing windows, I was
delighted to see that every other applied
exterior piece was still there.
When I turned it around to inspect the interior,
I was even more delighted to see
that it was crammed full of old furniture!
The majority was made by Strombecker,
and is from their "Modern" line
first introduced in 1938.
Also included are a number of
"Nancy Forbes" pieces from the 1940"s.
Most likely, the furniture is original
to the house since they are both
of the same vintage.
Besides the "duck" beds, these are
my favorites. The floor lamps in particular
are very hard to find, and can be quite expensive.
I'm working on re-creating the missing windows,
and will post more of this house soon.
8 comments:
Hi Rick,
I love the art deco look of those lamps and the grey furniture.
This is off the topic, but I'm very interested in that little house the dolls are holding in your blog's header or background photo. Was it a "dollhouse for a dollhouse", a candy container, a putz house, or ???? It's German, right? I can't find anything like it online and I'd love to find one or just pictures of one shown more "straight on" and all sides.
Hi Sharon,
That little house is part of a small toy village set that I have. It consists of a church and 11 different buildings & houses. They are German, and probably from the 1920's.
My set is packed away with the Christmas stuff, but you can see the entire boxed set by following this link. (scroll almost all the way down the page to see the set)
http://www.papatedsplace.com/Hom2009.html
I have the deco lamps too! Love em.
Don't have the lovely yellow duck bed set. Of course you had to buy it! Great find. CM
Thank you, Rick, for pointing me to that website for Christmas villages. I'm going to love looking through all of it, although I wish the photos of the complete set were a little clearer on that site. The buildings are much tinier than I'd realized. Thanks for sharing. I still hope to find pictures that are clear enough to make a tiny copy for my dollshouse.
What a lucky find! For the most part it is all in fantastic shape. I wouldn't have been able to pass it up either. Congratulations!
Susan
I was wondering how much you know about this dollhouse you found. I recently found the same one in my attic. The paint around the windows is chipped but all of the windows are there, and I don't think it's missing anything, though I don't actually know what it is supposed to look like as I know nothing about dollhouses. I was just wondering if you could tell me anything about the dollhouse or had any suggestions as to where I could look for information.
Thanks
Hi Jessica,
Wow, that's great that you found the same house in your attic!
This one was made by the Rich Toys company (mine is stamped on the bottom, but not all of their houses were). They were based in Clinton Iowa for many years and were in business from about 1935 until the early 60's.
I believe this house was made in the late 30's or slightly later. This house has metal corner supports and metal framed windows, which I understand was only done on their earlier models.
I haven't seen this model in any reference material that I have. But Dian Zillner's book "American Dollhouses & furniture" has some info, & other dollhouse pics from the Rich company.
This website has some dollhouse info as well:
http://www.mckendry.net/DOLLHOUSES/1940s.htm
Hope this info helps!
Thanks Rick! That will at least give me a place to start.
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