Difference between revisions of "Colonel Fancy's Porcelain Doll Enthusiast Quarterly"
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==Beginning of Publication== | ==Beginning of Publication== | ||
| − | ==Colonel | + | The periodical which would be later known as Colonel Fancy's Porcelain Doll Enthusiast Quarterly began in 1866 under the unnoteworthy name The Yearly Porcelain Doll Enthusiasts' Report, published out of a small printing house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The United States was recovering from the recently ended Civil War as well as the subsequent assasination of Abraham Lincoln, and the people of the North and South needed some common interests around which to rally. Immediately following the end of the Civil War, the United States became gripped with by a porcelain doll craze which cut across social, racial, and economic classes. Seeking to capitalize on this, the United States Department of the Interior commissioned the printing of a yearly publication documenting the fashions and trends in the world of porelain doll collection in order to encourage interest in something which would unite the peoples of both the North and the South, repairing the cracks which had riven the nation so recently. |
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| + | ==Colonel Waldtorf von See== | ||
| + | In 1872, a man who called himself Waldtorf von See immigrated from the newly united German state from the area previosly ruled as Prussia. His true name is unknown, as Waldtorf von See is a name he invented upon arival in the United States. He claimed to have been a colonel in the Prussian military and that he had fought in the Franco-Prussian war; however, contemporary records cannot verify that any man matching the battle history given by von See ever existed. What is clearly verifiable is that he entered the United States with a vast expertise and interest in porcelain dolls: their manufacture, classification, history, popular fashions, and collection. It is said (though not verified) that Colonel von See arrived in the United States with two suitcases one containing clothes and the other containing the most important pieces from his porcelain doll collection, the rest of which he presumably left in Prussia which has been since lost due to his obfuscation of his origin. | ||
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| + | ==Reorganization to World War 2== | ||
==Participation in Wartime Covert POW Communication== | ==Participation in Wartime Covert POW Communication== | ||
==Postwar Reorganization== | ==Postwar Reorganization== | ||
==Contemporary Subject Matter== | ==Contemporary Subject Matter== | ||
Revision as of 19:20, 11 November 2014
Colonel Fancy's Porcelain Doll Enthusiast Quarterly is the world's oldest continuously printed periodical on the topic of porcelain doll collection, care, and fashion.
Beginning of Publication
The periodical which would be later known as Colonel Fancy's Porcelain Doll Enthusiast Quarterly began in 1866 under the unnoteworthy name The Yearly Porcelain Doll Enthusiasts' Report, published out of a small printing house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The United States was recovering from the recently ended Civil War as well as the subsequent assasination of Abraham Lincoln, and the people of the North and South needed some common interests around which to rally. Immediately following the end of the Civil War, the United States became gripped with by a porcelain doll craze which cut across social, racial, and economic classes. Seeking to capitalize on this, the United States Department of the Interior commissioned the printing of a yearly publication documenting the fashions and trends in the world of porelain doll collection in order to encourage interest in something which would unite the peoples of both the North and the South, repairing the cracks which had riven the nation so recently.
Colonel Waldtorf von See
In 1872, a man who called himself Waldtorf von See immigrated from the newly united German state from the area previosly ruled as Prussia. His true name is unknown, as Waldtorf von See is a name he invented upon arival in the United States. He claimed to have been a colonel in the Prussian military and that he had fought in the Franco-Prussian war; however, contemporary records cannot verify that any man matching the battle history given by von See ever existed. What is clearly verifiable is that he entered the United States with a vast expertise and interest in porcelain dolls: their manufacture, classification, history, popular fashions, and collection. It is said (though not verified) that Colonel von See arrived in the United States with two suitcases one containing clothes and the other containing the most important pieces from his porcelain doll collection, the rest of which he presumably left in Prussia which has been since lost due to his obfuscation of his origin.