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Schoenhut

Ludwig Greiner

Grace Corry

Joel Ellis

Mason & Taylor

Mark on the back of the shoulder plate of a composition doll head on a cloth stuffed body with composition arms and legs and molded hair. The doll has painted eyes.

Mark reads © BY GRACE CORRY

Grace Corry

Joel Ellis wooden jointed dolls must be identified by the structure.  Study the joints at the hips and knees.  Boots and hands are made of metal.  The head does not turn. There is NO band around the waist.
Head may be made of a type of composition over wood.

Photos Used with Permission: Bennington Museum 
(Elisabeth Y. Fitts Collection of Springfield, VT dolls)

Joel Ellis

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Mason & Taylor wooden jointed dolls must be identified by the structure.  Study the joints at the hips and knees as they differ from the Joel Ellis doll.
  • head turns
  • black band around the waist
  • metal heands
  • metal boots painted blue

Photos Used with Permission: Bennington Museum 
(Elisabeth Y. Fitts Collection of Springfield, VT dolls)

Mason & Taylor

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This label for doll heads patented by Ludwig Greiner is found on the back of the papier mache shoulder plate of a doll head on a cloth stuffed body.

It reads "GREINER'S IMPROVED PATENT HEADS pat. March 30, 1858."

Ludwig Greiner

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This painted eyed Schoenhut doll face is known as the 16/300.  300 represents the face mold and 16 represents that she is 16 inches tall.

This 16/300 was found with a Schoenhut paper label on her back pictured here.

Paper labels came later after the incised doll marks.
This paper label reads "SCHOENHUT DOLL PAT. JAN. 17TH 1911 U.S.A."

Schoenhut

16/300

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This painted eyed Schoenhut doll face is known as the 19/308.  308 represents the face mold and 19 represents that she is 19 inches tall.

This 19/308 was found with a Schoenhut incised mark found here.

The incised mark is found on the earlier Schoenhut dolls.  This mark reads "SCHOENHUT DOLL PAT. JAN. 17. 11. U.S.A. & FOREIGN COUNTRIES."

Schoenhut

19/308

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Schoenhut dolls shoe made of leather with buckle bow on top and two holes in the sole intended to coincide with the holes in the feet so that the doll can be positioned on the Schoenhut doll stand for posing.

Schoenhut

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