Appraisal: Western Bisque Googly Doll, ca. 1910
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Appraisal: Western Bisque Googly Doll, ca. 1910
Watch Billye Harris appraise a Western bisque googly doll, ca. 1910, in Pretty or Pretty Ugly?
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Appraisal: Western Bisque Googly Doll, ca. 1910
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Watch Billye Harris appraise a Western bisque googly doll, ca. 1910, in Pretty or Pretty Ugly?
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: My great-grandmother brought it over from Czechoslovakia and gave it to her daughter, and when my dad was born she gave it to my father cause he was a boy and it’s a boy doll.
GUEST: (chuckling): We named him Hunzi-Czech, 'cause he's from Cz... APPRAISER: Hunzi-Czech.
GUEST: 'Cause he's from Czechoslovakia.
My daughters think he's creepy.
(laughing) APPRAISER: (chuckling): Oh, those silly daughters.
GUEST: But I, I think he's cute.
APPRAISER: What are we going to do with them?
(both laughing) GUEST: So, he's all hand-strung.
Um, his eyes move.
APPRAISER: Okay.
GUEST: I mean, he's, he's... He's a family member.
(chuckles) APPRAISER: He is one of your family members.
That's what I like to hear.
Your doll is actually from Germany.
GUEST: Oh, is it?
APPRAISER: And then maybe sold in Czechoslovakia as a, a souvenir doll.
He was originally made about 1910.
GUEST: Ooh.
APPRAISER: And what we really love about him is that he was made by Kestner, and he's mold 221.
And Kestner was a self-proclaimed king of doll makers, and he kind of used that to market his dolls, but he ended up really being the king of them.
He sold and made a lot of dolls.
And your doll has a, a bisque head and a composition body.
And his eyes are made of glass.
It's mouth-blown glass, and they're what we call googly eyes.
His costume was probably made in Czechoslovakia, 'cause it is... GUEST: Well, that's where my grandparents were from, is Czechoslovakia.
APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.
And then he does have on his original mohair wig and his little wool felted hat with silk flowers and beautiful embroidered ribbon.
And then the other thing we s-- talk about with this doll is their grin.
Just a big, like, "I am so happy, but I'm, also might be up to a little bit of something."
His bisque head is in excellent condition, and that's where the value is.
But we've got a little damage to our toes, and that's just because it is composition.
It's just a wood product, and that's really easy, to break fingers and toes.
And we're really lucky, 'cause he has all his fingers.
It's just, we do have that toe damage.
And then he also needs a little restringing.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: Because you can see, his arms just... Normally, you could actually hold their arms up, because that's how I like to pose 'em.
I like to pose 'em with the arms standing straight up, like, "Ta-da, here I am."
(chuckles) "Ready to start trouble."
These dolls are actually pretty hard to find.
In today's market, his retail value-- with the damage-- would be somewhere between $4,500 and $6,500.
GUEST: Hm!
That's great.
(chuckles) Y, you move out of the box.
(laughing)
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Preview: S29 Ep24 | 30s | Preview: Pretty or Pretty Ugly? (30s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 3m 5s | Appraisal: 1893 Tiffany & Co. World’s Fair Exhibition Vase (3m 5s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 37s | Appraisal: Handel Chipped Ice Lamp Shade, ca. 1920 (37s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 38s | Appraisal: Victorian Memorial Hair Wreath, ca. 1875 (38s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 1m 19s | Appraisal: Martin Brothers Stoneware Sugar Bowl, ca. 1890 (1m 19s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 58s | Appraisal: Early 20th C. Nippon Coralene Vase (58s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 1m 26s | Appraisal: 1982 George Condo Drawing (1m 26s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 3m 23s | Appraisal: Eugene Sartre Bow & French Violin (3m 23s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 1m 59s | Appraisal: 1918 Mole & Thomas Living Photo & Frame (1m 59s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 2m 7s | Appraisal: Samuel Yellin Light Fixture, ca. 1910 (2m 7s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 28s | Appraisal: Japanese Musen Cloisonné Vase, ca. 1910 (28s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 3m 6s | Appraisal: Guido Gambone Vase, ca. 1960 (3m 6s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 3m 18s | Appraisal: Silk-embroidery Mourning Picture, ca. 1810 (3m 18s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 1m 35s | Appraisal: 1931 Jakob Bengel Machine Age Necklace (1m 35s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 1m 4s | Appraisal: 1926 Blanche Lazzell "Petunias" Monoprint (1m 4s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 3m 23s | Appraisal: Marcus & Co. Opal Pin, ca. 1925 (3m 23s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 44s | Appraisal: Mission-Style Adirondack Rocker (44s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 2m 13s | Appraisal: Texas Longhorn Rocking Chair (2m 13s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 2m 24s | Appraisal: Ming Dynasty Roof Tile (2m 24s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 2m 50s | Appraisal: Folk Art Spool Table, ca. 1900 (2m 50s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 2m 2s | Appraisal: Sarreguemines Pottery Figure (2m 2s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 2m 24s | Appraisal: Gold & Enamel Singing Bird Box (2m 24s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 4m 1s | Appraisal: Higgins & Spencer Paintings (4m 1s)
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Clip: S29 Ep24 | 34s | Appraisal: Egyptian Revival French Clock, ca. 1880, from Des Moines Hour 2 (34s)
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