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AUSTIN DOLL COLLECTORS SOCIETY

The Austin Doll Collectors Society is an organization of antique, vintage, and modern doll collectors, dealers, and artisans. We meet on the second Sunday of each month and our meetings are fun and educational. We begin with refreshments and socializing, and, following our brief business meeting, there is a special doll-related program and "show and tell." The Austin Doll Collectors Society is a nonprofit organization and is a member of the United Federation of Doll Clubs.

Saturday, July 9, 2016

July 4, 2016, Meeting

 The refreshments table was appropriately decked out in patriotic red, white, and blue.



Also appropriate for the dog days of summer, member Mary McKenzie did a program on dolls and their dogs.  Here she holds a little fripon, the type of puppy made to accompany the French doll Bleuette.


Mary brought many of her own exquisite artistic creations, each accompanied by a canine companion.



A Marie Antoinette automaton offers cake to her fluffy pup.


A vintage dalmatian next to an older fuzzy spitz. 


These dolls pose with needle-felted papillons modeled on Mary's own beloved pets.



These older dogs represent the Borzoi, a breed often found with French Fashion dolls.  An antique toy Borzoi can cost hundreds of dollars.  




Mary's interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional characters, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, with a little beagle pup.


Other members brought toy dogs to share.  Bette Birdsong shows off some of her kennel of canines.



A wooden Mickey and Minnie Mouse with Pluto Pup, made by Fun-e-Flex in the 1930s.


Bisque bathing beauties from the early 1900s posing with puppies.


A vintage Barbie walks her poodle.



A Sasha girl cuddles a vintage cloth puppy. 


Myrna Loesch displays a diminutive "Snobby" poodle by the German company Steiff.












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