Toys and Dolls

Bonhams hold four specialist antique toy and doll auctions a year, which cater for all tastes in the world of vintage Toys, Trains, Dolls, Teddy Bears, Doll Houses and Miniatures, Rocking Horses, Juvenalia, Automata, Lead Soldiers and Figures.

With a dedicated team of very knowledgeable specialists, Bonhams are able to professionally cover all aspects of toys and dolls from advice on valuations/appraisals to selling or buying at auction. Please contact the department for further information.

Lots in future auctions

Gebruder Heinrich, EXTREMELY RARE Royal Souvenir Set 'The Proclamation of Edward VII' 63mm scale solidcast 22
A Lenci Sporting doll with tennis racket. 17".
Aster for Fulgurex Gauge I live steam 4-6-2 Chapelon's Nord 231 locomotive 3.1192 and bogie tender
A W.Crawford's A-ONE Aeroplane biscuit tin
Aster gauge I live steam Southern Maunsell 4-4-0 Schools class Winchester and tender No.901
Aster gauge I live steam Maunsell's Southern King Arthur class 4-6-0 Sir Balin and tender No.768

Highlights from past auctions

Rare Marklin Gauge I 3170 4 volt Strassenbahn tram, circa 1905 See: The Golden Years of Tin Toy Trains 1850-1909, by Paul Klein Schiphorst, pg.117 ill.338 for similar piece.
Sold for £21,875 inc. premium
Rare Marklin Gauge I 3170 4 volt Strassenbahn tram, circa 1905 See: The Golden Years of Tin Toy Trains 1850-1909 ...
A fine and important English Dolls House on original stand, late 18th century
Sold for £15,600 inc. premium

A fine and important English Dolls House on three drawer stand, early 19th century
A George II wooden doll, English circa 1750
Sold for £9,375 inc. premium
A George II wooden doll, English circa 1750
An Indian lacquered ivory figural chess set, Rajasthan, circa 1850,
Sold for £9,750 inc. premium
An Indian lacquered ivory figural chess set, Rajasthan, circa 1850,

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