HILDEGARD GUNZEL FOR WALTERSHAUSER DOLLS

"BINELLA II"

#82/250

1999

MINT CONDITION!

She is signed by the artist on her back with HG.

She comes in her original box.  She is in new - mint condition!

Comes with her original doll passport & paperwork.

Original price $870.00

Ltd. 250 in this outfit. 27" inches tall. Total of sculpt - 700. Edition started in 1998. Binella has long blond real hair. She wears a unusual pale yellow summer silk dress with extravagant ruffling and embroidery. Underneath is a batiste lace slip. On her head she wears a summer hat and on her feet are beige leather shoes. The very beautiful matching clothes go well with her hand blown blue glass eyes.

Made of Biggidur - see below

Many of the dolls created by the Waltershauser modern doll artists are made in Biggidur®.   Biggidur® was created by the Waltershauser company, and it is a very interesting material for dollmaking--it seems to be distantly related to the composition material used for the antique bisque-head doll bodies, including dolls made by both Kestner and Kammer and Reinhardt. It is hard to imagine Biggidur® unless you have felt the material.  The material is lighter than both porcelain and composition, and somewhat reminiscent of papier mache, except that the material is harder, smoother and sturdier than papier mache.   The material is warm to the touch, not cold like porcelain.  Many of the dolls have bodies of this material.  The company describes this material as a "bridge between vinyl and porcelain" that gives the doll the feeling of "real skin" but they closely guard the secret of exactly how Biggidur® is made.  The company also points out that Biggidur® has no pores and it doesn't break.