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Young girls dream of having their own dollhouses, and store shelves are usually filled with them. Along with the other collections, you can find a large selection of houses available from Fisher-Price. For more than 70 years, Fisher-Price dollhouses have entertained young girls and provided a home for their toys. more »
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Miniature doll crafts are handmade items for dollhouses in 1:12 (or less commonly, 1:24) scale. These dollhouses are generally not toys, but collectibles used to display the collector's miniature items in a realistic setting, like a diorama. more »
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A dollhouse is a toy home, made in miniature. For the last century, dollhouses have primarily been the domain of children but their collection and crafting is also a hobby for many adults.
Todays dollhouses trace their history back about four hundred years to the baby house display cases of Europe, which showed idealized interiors. Smaller doll houses with more realistic exteriors appeared in Europe in the 1700s. Early dollhouses were all handmade, but following the Industrial Revolution and World War II, they were increasingly mass produced and became more standardized and affordable.
Contemporary childrens play dollhouses are commonly in 1:18 (or 2/3") scale, while 1:12 (or 1") scale is common for dollhouses made for adult collectors.
The term dollhouse is common in the United States and Canada. In UK usage, dolls house or dollshouse is usual.
History
Miniature homes, furnished with domestic articles and resident inhabitants, both people and animals, have been made for thousands of years. The earliest known examples were found in the Egyptian tombs of the Old Kingdom, created nearly five thousand years ago. These wooden models of servants, furnishings, boats, livestock and pets placed in the Pyramids almost certainly were made for religious purposes.
The earliest known European dollhouses were the baby houses from the Sixteenth Century, which were cabinet display cases made up of rooms. They showed idealized interiors complete with extremely detailed furnishings and accessories. The cabinets were built with architectural details and filled with miniature household items and were solely the playthings of adults. They were off-limits to children, not because of safety concerns for the child but for the dollhouse. Such cabinet houses "Rijksmuseum"> were trophy collections owned by the few matrons living in the cities of Holland, England and Germany who were wealthy enough to afford them, and, fully furnished, were worth the pri read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollhouse
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