Beautiful Antique small French Guignol Doll Size Puppet Theater
Directory: Archives: Collectibles: Dolls and Figures: Pre 1900: Item # 1393498
Please refer to our stock # 598 when inquiring.
Lovely all original antique wooden and paper mache French Guignol puppet theater in rare to find small size 23" ( 59 cm ) total high , a perfect piece and unique eye catcher for your doll collection ! At the 19th. century was a Guignol one of the most popular toy puppet theater in France and Paris .... and at this times it is hard to find a good one in good condition and small size so that it would fit in a good doll collection !
The Guignol theater was also offered in the Etrennes catalog of " Grand Magazin de Louvre " or from " Au Bon Marche " and other Paris Depratment stores ! It´s all made of wooden and paper mache with beautifully gild painting of pretty carved wooden and papermache details and ornaments !
There is still a original card board curtain with lovely print and an card board plate , which has a lovely print hand colored scene , with this you have a nice background . The theater has a ovely litho print at front and it would be an eye catcher for displaying your antique French or German doll´s in a lovely doll scene with this Guignol ..... for me it was a lot of fun to create an doll scene and play with it :) !! Booth sides are covered with muslin in red color and movable to folding .
The condition is generally excellent from France around around 19th. century and in all original condition and finish !!
Total sizes : 23" ( 59 cm ) total high and 14" ( 36 cm ) weight at front , each side are 7" ( 18 cm )....secial rare to fin in this small size !!
Included to this theater are two pretty antique paper mache hand made theater doll´s ..... , booth in original fabric costume and generally excellent condition as well !! Wonderful display piece to enjoy in your collection !!
This offer are included the lovely Guignol and the two puppet doll´s .... all other my not included decoration for your inspiration :))
Thank you for your interest and please let me know if you have any question or if you need more or special pictures !
Layaway are always welcome, please ask about it ....thank you !!