Antique Fully-Furnished German Miniature Dollhouse with Elevator - by Moritz Gottschalk
This two-story dollhouse has lithographed paper to simulate red brick and yellow stone with lithographed window on roof. Red painted roof with two chimneys. Very nice porch roof with arrangement of flowers at balustrade, access to the house by rare double exterior stairs, original wooden door and knob. Five glass windows with original curtains at front.
The entire front opens to reveal two rooms and two halls, each with original wallpaper and tile or parquet floor paper. The wooden elevator with its opening door operates in a pulley system from a brass lever at the side. Two interior hinged doors.
The original Gottschalk furniture of wooden and pressed cardboard comprises a bed, a dressing table and its chair, a sofa, a table and its chair with light green silk upholstery as well as a small high table.
Handwritten number ( #4415 ? ) under the base.
Very good condition.
20 1/4"(51.5 cm) high, 15 "(38 cm) wide and 10 3/8"(26.5 cm) deep. Front door height 5 1/8"(13 cm) x width 2 "(5.2 cm).German - By Moritz Gottschalk in 1909.
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