Another Trixy Toy Dollhouse

This is my second Trixy Toy dollhouse 

made by the Durrel Company of Boston, MA, during the late 1920s.

Granny Ramey lives in this two story cardboard house.

Her house has four rooms....living room and kitchen on the first floor, 

with her bedroom and bath on the second floor. 

She is happy that her house came furnished with curtains.

Granny Ramey's living room is furnished with a green flocked suite placed across from the fireplace. The mantel clock and the log basket 

are not Kage products, but made to resemble original Kage.

Granny must like green.... she has green appliances and a green table 

in her kitchen. Both match well with the curtains that came with the house.

Moving upstairs...whoops, no stairs!  Her bedroom is cozy 

with walnut furniture and a fireplace to keep her toasty on winter nights.

A change of color for Granny Ramey....with a blue suite of bath fixtures.

We leave Granny Ramey enjoying a refreshing snack in her cozy little home.

Granny Ramey is a German Caco doll with metal hands and feet and stands 3⅝” tall,  made approximately in the early 1950s. The best information on Caho/Caco dolls can be found at  diePuppenstubensammlerin - Collecting old German dolls houses

 

The flocked green living room suite was listed in the 1949 Strombecker catalog.

The end table was first shown as a night stand with Strombecker's 1933 bedroom set. The lamp is shown in 1938 with Strombecker's 1" scale furniture. The base of the lamp has been repainted, the original color was black.

The kitchen set is part of  Strombecker's  1935-36 furniture production .

Kage dollhouse furniture was made in Manchester, CT from 1938-1948. These three pieces are from the later period before production ceased in 1948. The bed is from the last design of furniture. 

Kage fireplaces can be found in several different sizes with the later ones having natural wood mantels.  The piano bench is being used as a table.

Schoenhut produced this lamp starting in 1931.

This Trixy Toy house came to me missing the inner wall and second floor, 

but otherwise in fairly good shape. It took me several years 

to tackle re-creating them.  A partial chimney 

came with the house, so the two chimneys are also new. 

This picture, found in Zillner & Cooper's Antique & Collectible Dollhouses and Their Furnishings, is the same house with a blue and red color scheme.

My first Trixy Toy house was a one room house with two dormers. 

I blogged about it in 2016, you can read about it here  

and also see the furniture made by Trixy Toy for their houses.

Information provided on the Strombecker, Kage and Schoenhut furniture come from Patty Cooper's wonderful books on dollhouse furniture and can be purchased on Blurb.com:

Kage Dollhouse Furniture 1938-1948

Schoenhut Dollhouse Furniture 1928-1934

The Complete Guide to StromBecker Dollhouses & Furniture 1931-1961

Mary Jane Doll House

This is Mary Jane Doll House produced in 1921 and sold in the Sears Fall and Winter catalog in 1923 for 98¢.  It is "made of real heavy cardboard and tastefully decorated outside and inside....do not confuse this with the cheap flimsy lightweight cardboard houses on the market" according to Sears' description. 

It was manufactured by Mandell Mfg. Co. of Chicago, USA.

It's a lovely little house and I am sure it was enjoyed by all the little children who were lucky enough to own one. 

All four sides....and in amazingly good condition for it's 95 years.  But of course it IS made of real heavy cardboard....

Interior graphics. 

According to information found in Dian Zillner's International Dollhouses & Accessories, 1880s-1980s, page 136, this little house came with bedroom and living room furniture...a 3 piece set of sofa, chair and rocker, table, and grandfather clock for the living room; plus bed, chest, vanity/chair, and a rocker for the bedroom.  My set also has a "Victrola" in 1920s style for the living room. 

(Bedroom rocker no longer rocks.)

But just enough furniture for this little house!

My little Trixytoy dollhouse from 1928

This is my small Trixytoy dollhouse made by the Durrel Company 

in Boston, Massachuesetts in the late 1920s. 

It is made of heavy cardboard and still in great shape 

for a cardboard house approximately 88 years old. 

The roof was originally red but has faded to tan.

Mine is a one room house with opening door 

and 4 windows that still retain the original cellophane windows. 

I made a stand alone wall divider 

to give this grandma a bit of privacy.

Here is grandma's bedroom.

The dresser, chair, lamps, bed and bedside table are Strombecker from the early 1940s.

Grandma's comfy chair was made by Kage, 1938-48.

 Grandma loves her open living room kitchen combo. 

Grandma likes to relax on her sofa and listen to her favorite radio programs on her radio. 
The sofa, chair, radio and end table are Strombecker from the mid 1940s. 

Tweety, her little red bird, is kept in the kitchen 
because he likes to spread his birdseed everywhere! 
The sink, stove and table and chairs are from 
Strombecker's 1934 production line. 
The fridge is Kage, 1938-48. 

Grandma does think this is her "Home Sweet Home"!

This is a two room model house also made by Trixytoy. 

...advertised in the 1928 Sears catalog for $1.29 
and included Tootsietoy furniture. 

The Durrel Company also made Trixytoy furniture for their houses. This is the kitchen set, made in half inch to one foot scale, from four layers of cardboard glued together. 

The dining room set....

two tables, 4 chairs, sideboard and server were made.

Trixytoy living room set.

This add for my little house appeared in a 1920s toy flyer 
issued by J F Colson & Co in St. Charles, Illinois. 

Wonderland Doll's House

This amazing doll house, a lithograph on heavy cardboard, was manufactured by Schmidt Lithographing Company of San Francisco and sold by Macy's as late as 1931. Folded flat, it is less than 1" thick, but opens in 2 layers to form 3-D room settings. The back of the doll house, shown below, says, "This doll house is made of strong material, and when assembled with reasonable care, will produce a firm substantial house." After almost 80 years, I think they were right! Instructions for "setting up" the house are also printed on the back side.

According to Dian Zillner's Antique and Collectible Dollhouses and Their Furnishings, this house originally came with cardboard furniture that was one dimensional with a cardboard stand on the back. Although the house was in really great shape, none of the furniture came with it.

I found this house to be the perfect size for the Tootsietoy metal furniture produced by the Dowst Brothers Company in Chicago from 1922-37. Tootsietoy furniture is small, 1/2" to 1 foot; the dining room table shown above is 3.25" long, the green hutch at the back of the kitchen is 3" tall.

The front of the doll house box advertized this "Real Doll Mansion" as having 12 complete rooms; you can see in the picture below the small alcove at the back of the room that was counted as one of the 12 rooms. (pink crib is not Tootsietoy)

The lithographs are wonderful....patterned carpets on the floors, tile on kitchen walls and floor, wall sconces, furniture, pictures, bay windows.......The picture below shows 2 of the 10 cut-out windows in the house; all of the alcoves have a cut-out window with a shaped curtain

Each floor has a center wall for stability; it's surprising that the center wall cardboard is twice as thick as the outer walls.
 

I love this Tootsietoy furniture! Dowst Brothers produced 2 different sets of furniture; most of the furniture in this house is the later set that had functional pieces. The bedspreads can be removed from the bed frames, drawers on the dresser and chest open, the "Victrola" lid opens as does the oven door and kitchen hutch doors, and the refrigerator door opens and even has shelves inside.

   

The brown table and chair set in the kitchen are from the first furniture set produced and were considered the dining room set. The second set produced is shown in one of the first few pictures above.

The lithographs are so gorgeous on this little house that I almost hated to put furniture in front of them!

If you have one of these wonderful vintage dollhouses, let me know how you have decorated it!