Manon's Collection of Costume Dolls
EUROPE 2
POLAND (Part 2)
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Podhale Gorale people
This doll represents a "Janosik". Janoslk is the slavik equivalent for Robin Hood. According to the legends he was an outlaw who stole from the nobles to give to the poor
Podhale Gorale people
Lowicz Region
Krakow
PORTUGAL
The city of Coimbra is very known for their bronze sculpture " a tricana da Coimbra" . This doll represents that lady in that sculpture.
Coimbra
Madeira
Madeira
Nazare
Nazare
Nazare
Madeira
Madeira
Sintra yarn dolls
Nazare Region
Algarve
Martim Longo (Algarve)
This doll represents a Palteiro de Miranda dancer, also known as stick dancers from the north east of Portugal. These dancers perform their dance at varios religeous festives around the region
Madeira
Nazare Region
Nazare Region
Madeira
Nazare Region
Maria Elena Doll
Maria Elena Doll
Nazare Region
Maria Elena Doll
Maria Elena Dolls
ROMANIA
Oas Region
Arte Crisana Dolls
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Arte Crisana Doll
He is wearing the national folk dance costume called "calusaril". It is beadedand tassled. The wooden stick he is holding is used to interpret various gestures of the dance.
Arte Crisana Doll
Arte Crisana Dolls
Arte Crisana Doll
He is wearing the national folk dance costume called "calusaril". It is beadedand tassled. The wooden stick he is holding is used to interpret various gestures of the dance.
Arte Crisana Doll
Arte Crisana Doll
Arta Populare Doll
Arta Populare Doll
Oradea
Oltenia Region
Arta Populare Dolls
SAN MARINO
World Wide Doll Club Doll
This doll is Roberto from San Marino and is a world wide doll club doll, He is from 1962 and came with a coin and a stamp
SERBIA
SLOVAKIA
Bratislava
Tatry mountains
Lidova Tvorba Doll
Kijov
Lidova Tvorba Doll
Olsavica
Lidova Tvorba Dolls
Tatry Mountains
Lidova Tvorba Doll
SLOVENIA
Gorensjska region
Pedller doll
Gorensjska region
Gorensjska region
Spain
Marin Chiclana Doll
Valencia
Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Castile La Mancha
Basque Country
Ibiza, Balearic Islands
Mallorca, Balearic Islands
Beibi Doll
Beibi Doll
Beibi Doll
Beibi Doll
Segovia, Castile and León
Beibi Doll
Mallorca, Balearic Islands
Marin Chiclana Doll
Catalonia
Andalucia
Aragon
Marin Chiclana Doll
Ibiza, Balearic Islands
Mallorca, Balearic Islands
Malaga, Andalucia
This figurine is a replica of of Malaga's famous statue "El Cenachero"
This is a doll representing andalucia's annual "romeria" or pilgrimage festives
Folk Doll
Alicante, Valencia Region
Klumpe Doll
Catalonia "La Peixeira"
Marin Chiclana Dolls
Marin Chiclana Doll
Andalucia
Aragon
Beibi Doll
Valencia
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This doll is very special to me, this was my very first costume doll. My collection escalated from then on. This doll was given to me by my dad when i was a little girl in the early 80's. It was from then on he would bring me back a doll from each trip he took. This particular doll my dad bought for my mom in 1968 while vacationing in Spain
Marin Chiclana Doll
Lagertera ( Toledo ) Castilla-La-Mancha
Basque Country
Segovia, Castile and León
Layna Doll
Layna Doll
Layna Doll
Nistis Doll
Marin Chiclana Doll
Marin Chiclana Doll
Valencia
Layna Doll
Layna Doll
Klumpe Doll
SWEDEN
Malmo
Vaxjo, Smaland
SWITZERLAND
Luzern
Canton D'Uri
Valais
Ticino
Baitz Doll
Zurich
Although this is an austrian Baitz doll i am placing her in Switzerland she is representing a traditional girl from Zurich
This little swiss girl is made out of cloth and is wearing traditional swiss clothes
Luzern
This little swiss girl is made out of cloth and is wearing traditional swiss clothes
Valais
An inexpensive tourist doll from the Canton region of Valais
Zurich
Lenzerheide
Bern
Zurich
Casey Boys Figurine
These adorable figurines are from the brand Casey Boys and they represent the italian swiss border, the doll on the right with the blue blouse has a cheese on his back which says "Emmenthaler swiss cheese"
UKRAINE
An ethnic ukrainian cloth doll
This jolly fellow's name is Chub, the Cossack. He is a charactar from the collection of short storys written by Nicolai Gogol. This particular story is "Evenings on a farm near Dikinka" This one was brought back for me in the early 90's by my father. The doll below is his wife.
This doll is Chub, the cossack's wife
This doll is Chub, the cossack's wife
Pobeda Factory
These dolls were made in the 50's in the factory "Pobeda" in Kiev
Motanka Doll
The motanka doll is an object of Ukrainian culture, which symbolizes well being, goodness and hope for the best, is a stron sacred object for the Ukrainian people. The symbolism of the Motanka doll is present regardles of whether it was created hastily for the amusement of a child or as a talisman for the holidays. Ukrainian motanka has found its special place in the culture of our people
UNITED KINGDOM
Sarah Penny Doll
Rexard doll
Salvation army dolls
This plastic doll with sleepy eyes represents a queen's guard. I purchased this doll in London in 1993
Peggy Nisbet Doll
This doll represents an english beefeater
This plastic doll with sleepy eyes represents a quardsman.
Peggy Nisbet Doll
This doll represents King Henry the 8th who was king of England from 1509-1547
ENGLAND
These are not authentic scottish dolls. They were distributed by the wash detergent OMO in the early 70's. These 2 little dolls represent Scotland
Rogark Doll
Peggy Nisbet Doll
This doll is from the happy dolls series by Peggy Nisbet during the 1960's. His name is Robert and represents a scottish chieftain from the Peggy Nisbet Happy doll series
Rexard doll
Rexard doll
A rexard doll representing Katharine of Aragon
A rexard doll representing Lady Hamilton
Shallow Pool Dolls
Shallow Pool Doll
Shallow Pool Doll
SCOTLAND
Rogark Doll
This plastic doll with sleepy eyes represents a quardsman.
This plastic doll with sleepy eyes represents a "bobby" a british police officer
This plastic inexpensive tourist doll with sleepy eyes represents a beefeater
This plastic doll with sleepy eyes represents a "bobby" a british police officer
This plastic doll with sleepy eyes represents a quardsman.
This plastic doll with sleepy eyes represents a quardsman.
This plastic inexpensive tourist doll with sleepy eyes represents a beefeater
Shallow Pool dolls wew made by three ladies in the Cornwall area throughout the fifties through eighties
Cornwall
Shallow Pool Dolls
These shallowpool dolls are supposed to represent two coastal towns Fowey and Newquay in Cornwall
Wee Folk ArtElder Dolls
by Hillary Elder
Wee Folk ArtElder Dolls
by Hillary Elder
Sheena Macleod Doll
These lovely handcrafted dolls were made in the spinning galery
Sheena Macleod Doll
Crofter making creel:
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Tenant of an area of land to which he had absolute tenure, the crofter was highly independent tending his sheep and cattle on the hill, digging his peat: often weaving his cloth and fishing the shore waters: his potato patch and hen run in the in-lye-land; he representen a god fearing and cultured breed
Peggy Nisbet Doll
Lincoln Collection Doll
This porselain doll is one of the many Lincoln collection dolls. She represents a scottish girl.
WALES
Crugwen Doll
Peggy Nisbet Doll
This doll is from the happy dolls series by Peggy Nisbet during the 1960's. She is made from hard plastic and her costume is made from genuine welsh flannel from welsh mills
Cillacraft Doll by Priscilla Arnold
This is a "Cillacraft" doll, by Priscilla Arnold of Aberystwyth, in mid-Wales. Most of them are from the 1970s and 1980s, and they usually wear regional costumes of Wales. Her husband John was a well-known maker of wooden love-spoons, and eventually she had to hand over her doll business to friends, to help her husband with his spoons. The 20cm dolls were sold with a little card label, with a description on, but people would often take this off, to display them.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast
Cloth doll representing an irish celtic dancer from Belfast
VATICAN CITY
Traditional doll from the Vatican, he represents a papal swiss guard
This little celluloid doll is representing a papal swiss guard and was purchased in 1952
