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

A large bisque head Tete Jumeau Bebe, size 14
Black flautest automata by G. Vichy, circa 1870 See "Automata. The Golden Age 1848-1914" by Christian Bailly pg.72 for similar Automata.
Aster for Fulgurex Gauge I live steam 4-6-2 Chapelon's Nord 231 locomotive 3.1192 and bogie tender
A 5in gauge model of the G.N.R Stirling Single 4-4-2 locomotive and tender
Gebruder Heinrich, EXTREMELY RARE Royal Souvenir Set 'The Proclamation of Edward VII' 63mm scale solidcast 22
Marklin 55004 gauge I live steam BR44 2-10-0 DB locomotive and tender

Highlights from past auctions

Extremely rare A Thuillier bisque head Bebe, circa 1880
Sold for £30,000 inc. premium
Extremely rare A Thuillier bisque head Bebe, circa 1880
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
South German walnut backgammon/chess/nine men morris board/box, 17th century plus 21 South German pressed wood counters
Sold for £11,875 inc. premium
A kingwood, oak, padouk, ebony and ivory inlaid games board/box, South German, late 17th century,
An Indian ivory figural chess set, Rajasthan, circa 1870,
Sold for £10,000 inc. premium
An Indian ivory figural chess set, Rajasthan, circa 1870,

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