What Do Antique Dolls Have in Common with Catherine Holm?

Published on November 18, 2008 :: No Comments

And the answer is…(you guessed it) not much, beyond the fact that these two types of items are in my ebay-listing sights this week.  I put some dolls up on tandemkids today, two especially that are about 100 years old and really lovely.  I am not in any way a doll person – I don’t know a whole lot about them and I don’t feel a whole lot for them.  But when I handle high quality ones like these (both made in Germany, by Florodora and Kestner) I can appreciate their details and their beauty.  Here are a couple of pictures of today’s girls:

And then there is Catherine Holm.  Are you familiar with it?  Wonderful, colorful mid-century enamelled cookware and kitchenware from Denmark.  We love mid-century, and no one did it like the Scandinavians!  We have managed to put together quite a lot, along with a little complimentary Dansk.  It is finally all washed and waiting to be photographed for ebay.  It will be a tedious process to photograph each piece, but it was fun to pile it all up together for this group shot:

Next on my to-do list is deciding what new items to bring into our shop in Hudson on Friday.  We have had a couple of good weekends there (despite the economic doom-and-gloomers) and we are looking forward to another.  Those wonderful white glass vases from my last post will definitely go, as well as a fabulous big carved African planter looking thing and a gorgeous amber glass 1950s Mexican hanging light fixture.  Will have some pictures for you here in the next couple of days.