The Doll House Mystery

Washington, DC: he Washington Dolls' House Toy Museum. Reprint. Fourteenth Printing [stated]. u ndated. Wraps. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed on half-title.. Gruen, Chuck. 96 p. Includes illustrations. Originally published by Coward-McCann, Inc. of New York in 1958. Excepted from The Washington Post's obituary: Flora Gill Jacobs, whose collection of antique miniatures became the Washington Dolls' House and Toy Museum and attracted visitors from around the world for nearly 30 years. Mrs. Jacobs was considered the country's foremost authority on antique dollhouses and their furniture. The author of five histories and four children's books, she wrote the first history of dolls' houses. Her latest work is the comprehensive "The Small World of Antique Dolls' Houses" (2005). Collectors called her museum, the first of its kind in this country, one of the finest in the world. The Washington museum, of which Mrs. Jacobs was founder, director and curator, was known for its miniature 19th-and early 20th-century architecture and decorative arts. Mrs. Jacobs's contribution to the hobby cannot be underestimated, said Noel Barrett, toy dealer and regular on PBS's "Antiques Roadshow."