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 • THE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF THE LATE BETTY & AARON TUMEN
SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 - 1:00 PM
EASTGATE (CINCINNATI), OHIO


Located at the Holiday Inn, 4501 Eastgate Blvd., Cincinnati, Ohio 45245.  Exit 63A off I-275 to 32 to Eastgate Blvd.


This auction includes the personal collection of the late Betty & Aaron Tumen, well-respected dealers and collectors & former owners of Brass Eagle Antiques.

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 Lot # 271 - 300

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271 Early Doll House Miniatures Early Doll House Miniatures Circa 40 pieces, include three piece sterling tea set, two different sterling casters, sterling ladle pin and sterling coal shovel, plus 25 miniature pieces of pewter, most 19th century, including flagon, tankards, bowls, plates, porringers, casters, tray, goblets flips, candlesticks, spoons and more, plus embossed silver plated brass pill box with hinged lid with courting couple in garden on lid, marked Italy, plus inlaid chess board, plus 4 marked Limoge porcelain plates, plus porcelain cup, two saucers and creamer, all 19th century, and miniature tin for Zonas Adhesive Plasters 100 200 All miniatures Fine, except coal shovel has handle broken off, but present.
272 Kewpie Dolls Plus Kewpie Dolls Plus Lot of four, including a nice bisque Rosy O'Neal Kewpie pair made for top of wedding cake, circa 1910-20, in original outfits, 3 1/2" high; plus seated Kewpie 3" high; plus bisque shoulder head Victorian doll head with molded blond hair and straw bonnet, pink ribbon around neck, 3 1/" high; and composition fashion bust with painted features and black wig, cork base, used as decanter stopper, 5 1/2" high, set in liquor glass. 40 60 Fine to Very Good.
273 Hertel Schwab Character Baby Doll Hertel Schwab Character Baby Doll Numbered 150/15, bisque socket head toddler with blue sleep eyes, open mouth with 4 upper teeth and tongue,  blond wig on bent limb jointed body 26" tall in period white linen and lace dress and slip with lace bonnet. Wearing a gold filled pin with a very nice Victorian miniature painted portrait of a young blonde lady with red necklace, facing left, 1" diameter. Lot also includes a 2nd Gold filled Victorian lock, period child's umbrella with celo handle and woven purse. 150 250 Crazing on arms, else Fine.
274 Two Victorian China Head Dolls Two Victorian China Head Dolls Heads only, both different, with blue painted eyes and molded black hair, larger marked 14 on back, 8" & 7 1/2" high. 50 100 Both Fine.
275 Two Victorian China Head Dolls Two Victorian China Head Dolls Heads only, both different, with blue painted eyes and molded black hair, larger  7 1/2" high, smaller 6 1/2' high.. 50 100 Both Fine.
276 Three Victorian China Head Dolls Three Victorian China Head Dolls Including tow 6 1/2" high with painted blue eyes and black hair and one marked on front Pauline, and back Parent Applied For Germany, 5 1/2" high. 50 100 Largest with line in shoulder plate, smallest broken & glued.
277 Two Victorian Dolls Two Victorian Dolls Including a nice painted papier mache shoulder head doll with blue eyes and molded and painted black hair with wood toddler body, lacking arm and never had legs with brown printed period calico dress, 8" high; and china shoulder head doll with blue painted eyes, molded and painted black hair on leather body with period home-made dress vest and under garments, 15" tall. 50 100 As above, else Fine.
278 Six Japanese Dolls Six Japanese Dolls Including three bisque Japanese children with sleep glass eyes, closed mouths, one girl with black wig and two boys with black hats, all in original silk clothing, composition jointed bodies, 7 1/4" high, plus teenager, boy doll on stand with black wig, fixed brown glass eyes, composition socket head and composition arms, 10" high; and two composition bent limb socket head dolls, boy and girl with fixed brown glass eyes, black wigs and original costumes, on composition bodies, 8" high. 50 100 All Very Good.
279 Japanese Dolls in Shadow Box Frame Japanese Dolls in Shadow Box Frame Two composition & wood dolls with fixed glass eyes and original costumes with woodblock print background in pressed rose & scroll composition frame, 13 x 5 x 11" high. 50 100 Fine.
280 Four Chinese Porcelain Birds Four Chinese Porcelain Birds All late 19th or early 20th century and polychrome enamel painted, 8, 5, 4 1/2 & 4 1/4" high. 40 60 All Fine.
281 Victorian Gold Filled Umbrella Victorian Gold Filled Umbrella Chased floral handle with carved MOP top, black silk, handle is 8" long, total length 37". 30 50 Slight wear to silk, else Fine.
282 Antique Brass China & Glass Antique Brass China & Glass Lot of 13, including a brass wall hanging bill holder in the form of a duck head with glass eyes, circa 1890 spring loaded, 6" long,; plus a cast brass lizard marked RH Co. on top, likely from a foundry, 4" long; plus pottery pie bird, circa 1900 in brown glaze, 3" high; plus pottery figure of Victorian lady in brown glaze, circa 1890, 5" high; plus cut glass dresser dish, 4 1/4 x 3 x 1 1/4" high; plus two different miniature oriental vases, 3 & 2" high; plus miniature art glass vase, 2 1/2" high; plus two art glass slippers, 5 1/2" long; plus tobacco jar lid with African American figural finial, 6" high; plus Egyptian tri-metal inlaid bowl, silver, bronze on brass, 4 3/4" diameter x 2" high; and pressed glass covered butter in smokey glass, 7 x 3 1/2 x 4 1/2" high. 50 100 Fine to Very Good.
283 Antique Porcelain & Silver, Plus Antique Porcelain & Silver, Plus Lot of 15, including pair figural bisque match or toothpicks, two porcelain toby mugs, marked Dickens jug Germany, 4" high, Sheffield candle snuffer and under tray, three book form match boxes, two china shoes, top hat match holder, miniature mandolin and more. 50 100 Fine to Very Good.
284 Fine Leather Bound Set of Books Plus Fine Leather Bound Set of Books Plus The works of Wm. M. Thackery, 1904, Thomas Nelson & Son, London, Edinburgh & N.Y., 16mo (4 1/4 x 6 1/4") in brown leather bindings with gilt title on spines and gilt fore edges, some in rice paper jackets, all housed in an early 19th century cherry dovetailed carrying case, 12 7/8 x `10 1/4 x 8 3/4" high. 100 200 Wear to most binding, still Very Good, case is Fine.
285 Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Set of ten 8vo (5 1/4 x 7 3/") books in half red moroccan with marbled boards and gilt titles on spines with marbled end papers & paste downs. Set entitled: The Life and Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1899, no listed author, The Macmillan Co., London. 100 150 Bindings Very Good with slight scuffing, else Fine.
286 American History Books in Fine Bindings American History Books in Fine Bindings Full title being: History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877, by James Ford Rhodes, The Macmillan Co., London, 1913, Seven Volumes in brown half moroccan with marbled boards and ilt titles on spines with marbled end papers and paste downs, 506, 541, 659, 557, 659, 440, & 431pp respectively with Vols. II-VII all having additional pages at rear. 100 200 Binding Fine as is the rest of the books.
287 The War with the South, Civil War Books The War with the South, Civil War Books Three volume in Imperial Octavo 9 x 11 1/2" size in brown leather binding with gilt title on spines, full title being: The War with the South, A History of the Late Rebellion with Biographical Sketches of Leading Statesmen and Distinguished Naval and Military Commanders, Ect. By Robert Tomes, printed by Virtue & Co., N.Y.C., 664, 680 & 738pp with marbled fore edges, end papers and paste downs, complete with all illustrations, most being full page steel engravings, dated 1862 with Vols. II & III printed by Virtue & Yorkston. 100 200 Binding Fine, some foxing and vol II with pages 1-6 missing.
288 Scarce Book on Japanese Culture Scarce Book on Japanese Culture Full title being: We Japanese Being Descriptions of Many of he Customs, Manners, Ceremonies, Festivals, Arts and Crafts of the Japanese Besides Numerous Other Subjects, third printing, 1936, by Federic De Garis for H.S.K. Yamaguchi, managing director o Fujiya Hotel LTD. 8vo in folding slip case with silk covers, 200pp printed on rice paper with all illustrations and tipped in photographs of  H.S.K. Yamaguchi with his autograph and presentation inscription to Mr. Edgar Bettmann, dated 25 April, 37 on front free end paper, 6 1/2 x 9". 50 100 Sun fading on spine of folding case, else Fine.
289 Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Four volumes bound in eleven volumes, 16mo (4 1/4 x 7") in green half calf with gilt titles on spines, marbled boards, full title being Tales of My Landlord, Third Series Collected and aranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham, A. & W. Galigani, Paris, 1821. 100 200 Minor wear to bindings, else Fine.
290 Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Set of Fine Leather Bound Books The works of Lord Bryon, by Thomas Moore, in 18 volumes, John Murray, Albemarle St., London, 1832, 16mo (4 1/2 x 6 3/4") in half brown moroccan with gilt titles on spines, red cloth boards and marbled end papers and paste downs, each with blue silk ribbon place-marks, with 17 numbered volumes, but volume two is in two parts (bound separately). 100 200 Minor wear to bindings, else Fine.
291 Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, 8vo (4 3/4 x 7") in half brown calf with marbled board, end papers and paste downs, gilt top fore edge, 13 volumes, Charles Scribner's Sons, N.Y.C., 1906. 100 200 As above with minor wear to bindings, one volume missing front board, else Fine.
292 Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Waverly Novels, vols. 1-12, eleven volumes (missing vol. VI), 8vo in brown half calf with gilt titles on spines and marbled boards, by Sir Walter Scott, Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1862. 100 200 As above with minor wear to bindings, else Fine.
293 Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Works of Alexander Dumas, six 8vo volumes (5 1/2 x 7 1/4") bound in four in half red calf with gilt titles on spines, marbled board, end papers & paste downs, John  Wahamaker, Philadelphia, N.Y. & Paris, circa 1903. 100 200 Bindings and books are Fine.
294 Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Works of Sir Walter Scot, twenty-one bound books in twenty-five numbered volumes (missing Vols. IX & X & vol. I in two parts), 16mo (4 1/4 x 6 3/4"), in half green moroccan with marbled boards, end papers, paste downs & fore edges. 100 200 Minor scuffing o bindings, else Fine.
295 Books Life of Wellington Books Life of Wellington In four volumes, full title being: Life and Campaigns of the Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K.G., by G.N. Wright, Fisher, Sons, & Co., London, n.d., circa 1841, 8vo (5 3/4 x 8 3/4") in half black calf with gilt title on spines, marbled boards, fore edges, end papers & paste downs, 476, 518, 594 & 412pp with all engravings. 50 100 Minor scuffing to bindings, Vol. 1 spine half loose, else Fine.
296 Set Books, History of Scotland Set Books, History of Scotland Full title being :The History of Scotland From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, by Thomas Wright, Blackie & Son, London, 1855, 8vo (5 3/4 x 8 3/4") in brown calf with gilt titles on spines, marbled boards, free end papers & paste downs with all illustrations, 526, 577, 579, 632, & 608pp. 100 200 Minor scuffing to bindings, else Fine.
297 Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. In ten vols., John Murray, London 1835 16mo (4 1/4 x 6 3/"), bound in brown moroccan with gilt titles on spines, gilt top fore edge, marbled boards, free end papers and paste downs with all illustrations. 100 200 Most boards are loose but present, else Fine.
298 History of Rome History of Rome In five volumes, by Theodor Mommsen, translated by Wm. P. Dickson, 2nd edition, Richard Bentley, London, 1864, 16mo (5 x 7 1/2") in half brown calf with gilt titles on spines, marbled boards, fore edges, free end papers & paste downs, 511, 480, 478, 292 & 327pp. 100 150 Minor scuffing to bindings, else Fine.
299 Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Set of Fine Leather Bound Books The Complete Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Amesbury Edition, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1892, 8vo (5 3/8 x 7 3/4") in brown moroccan with gilt titles on spines and top fore edges, marbled boards, free end papers & paste downs in seven volumes. 100 150 Bindings & books are all Fine.
300 Set of Fine Leather Bound Books Set of Fine Leather Bound Books The Works of Victor Hugo, bound in twelve volumes, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1888, 16mo (5 x 7 3/8") in brown moroccan with gilt titles on spines, gilt fore edges, marbled boards, free end papers & paste downs. 100 200 Minor scuffing to bindings, else Fine.
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