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(410) 252-5035 - info@opferauction.comChristine Tyson Harrison
Miniaturist
1948-2024
Direct descendant of anti-slavery Quaker Issac Tyson and Dr. John Beale Davidge founder of Univ of Maryland Medical School, Christine grew up in Baltimore Maryland at her family home on Falls Road-Bare Hills. Her Grandfather James Wood Tyson 111 & subsequently her mother, Patricia Tyson Harrison, inherited a Victorian Doll House. Enjoyed by generations of Tyson children the house itself was no longer when inherited by Christine in the 1950s. The story goes that Patricia brought her baby goat in the house to play and the goat enjoyed itself too much. Nonetheless mesmerized, she began her lifelong restoration of the many figures, housewares, furniture etc. Although her father William Harrison built a dollhouse as a Christmas surprise she went on to use a glass front china cabinet purchased in Charleston, creating an exquisite facsimile of a doll house. For her, it was a delight to work and view the straight on room displays. Using French silk ribbon as wall paper she brought it all to life.
During her 20 years living in Charleston, South Carolina during the1970s and 80s she belonged to and chaired the Charleston Miniature Society. Through those years she designed and created, as gifts, many miniature shadow boxes for friends.
During her life she shared her knowledge and love with other enthusiasts around the world and made many wonderful friends. From petit point rugs to franklin stoves Christine created a one of a kind beautiful world.
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1893 World’s Fair Soda Fountain Sells for $5,310,000
on March 25, 2012
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