27th Nov, 2024 10:00

Dolls & Teddy Bears Auction

 
Lot 917
 

917

‘Nelson’, a fine, rare and early Portrait Emile Jumeau bebe No.5

Sold for £8,500
Estimated at £4,000 - £6,000


 

‘Nelson’, a fine, rare and early Portrait Emile Jumeau bebe No.5, with pressed bisque head with large brown striated fixed glass eyes, shaded lid, brown feather brows, open/closed mouth with protruding top lip, painted pale pink with darker pink detail, shaded pierced ears, original blonde skin wig on cork pate, back of neck impressed 5, papier-mâché and wooden eight ball jointed body with fixed wrists, blue ink stamp on lower back, wearing a well made dark navy sailor’s suit with black silk scarf, matching cap embroidered ‘H.M.S. Nelson’, a white wool cloth shirt, socks, black leather shoes, a white cotton handkerchief embroidered ‘Nelson’, a pewter whistle on plaited string and gilt metal ship’s wheel compass on fob chain —26 ½in. (67.5cm.) high (minuscule eye chip to lower left eyelid, three white blemish spots around left eye, a slight flake from the inside edge of head rim, stringing needs tightening and very slight wear to joints) - sold with a reprinted photograph, transparency and Jpg of the original owner holding Nelson, the doll was given to Winifred (Winnie) Haslett when aged 9yrs (by family repute, circa 1884) for being a good girl at the dentist. She was born in 1875, the youngest daughter in a respected family in Belfast. Her father (John Haslett) along with her uncle (Sir James Haslett) founded a wholesale grocery business in Belfast (“J & J Haslett Limited”). Sir James Haslett went on to become Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1887. HMS Neslon was launched on 1814, but was laid up until 1854, then converted into a screw ship in the 1860s, before being given the Victoria, Australia as a training ship in the 1868. It seems unlikely that the doll was named after this actual slightly failed HMS Nelson, but probably after the man himself as a seafaring hero. It is believe that Winnie’s nanny made the uniform.

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