Most vintage dollhouse furniture pieces have been loved and played with vigorously by their initial owners … girls of all ages and backgrounds. The fun of collecting these pieces comes from the intrigue of their past as well as the wonderful sense of fantasy all miniatures seem to capture. There are many makers of these pieces of the past, with pieces made of plastic, wood and metal. Some of the mostought after pieces are by Renwal, Petite Princess, Tootsietoy, Strombecker, Ideal, Schoenut, Messer, and Marz.
Do you remember those little rubber dolls that could bend and be dressed? They were not bigger than two inches tall and were the love of little girls everywhere. You can bring out that little girl in anyone … anytime … with just a look at one of those little baby dolls lying in a white Renwal crib, which has a pink puffy plastic mattress to lie the baby on and then rocking her gently to sleep. In the bathroom mommy is giving little sister a bath in the clawfooted plastic bathtub while dad sits in his dark colored metal rocking chair in the living room, sometimes reading the daily paper. What fascination comes with miniatures and what wonderful beauty and marks of time come with any of the vintage dollhouse furniture pieces you can find today, which is not an easy thing to do. You can of course find dollhouses today but they do not seem to be nearly as commonplace as in the past. Perhaps that may have something to do with the "electronic" age our children are growing up in.
Has that removed some of the simple pleasures of the past like playing with miniatures with dollhouses? Of course not. Little girls will always be little girls with eyes that light up at the sight of miniatures and it shows today with little toys like Polly Pockets and My Little Pet Shop figures. It may be that many of them just have not had the opportunity of playing with a dollhouse put in front of them. Whether you are a dollhouse collector or someone with a shelf to showcase your miniatures on … or if you simply enjoy the gift of seeing a young girl's eyes light up at the sight of pieces you hand to her … the love of these wonderful pieces will cause you to always have one eye open for the sight of even more vintage furniture piece to love.
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