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Identifying Antique Dolls

Antique French Dolls, Featured, Patents

Huret

1850 French patent for Adelaide Aimee Calixte Huret for an articulated molded jointed doll

October 16, 2024

Antique French Dolls, Identifying Antique Dolls

French Doll Markings

1893 registered French trademark by P. H. Schmitz for Bebe Moderne

September 10, 2024

Antique German Dolls, glazed china head dolls, Identifying Antique Dolls

Adelina Patti

August 12, 2024

Antique French Dolls, Antique German Dolls, Identifying Antique Dolls

Dolls of Youth’s Companion Magazine

From the last October issue of 1887 of Youth's Companion magazine comes the advertisement for the bisque head doll with a swivel neck, closed mouth, fixed eyes, and jointed kid leather body with bisque hands. The doll is named Felice and came with a Saratoga doll trunk with her initials: F.A.P. for Felice arriving from Paris

July 22, 2024

Antique American Dolls, Patents, Wooden Dolls

Joel Ellis Dolls

US Patent drawings of the dolls designed by Joel Ellis, Mason & Taylor, and Charles Johnson in 1873, 1881, and 1882

May 5, 2024

Antique German Dolls, Cloth Dolls, Teddy Bears

Margarete Steiff

Ad for 1907 Steiff Bears

May 4, 2024

Antique German Dolls, Cloth Dolls, Doll Museums

Kathe Kruse

Kathe Kruse Dolls featured in 1914 issue of Ladies Home Journal

April 13, 2024

Identifying Antique Dolls, Milliner Dolls

Milliners Doll

Meisje met speelgoed

April 5, 2024

Antique German Dolls, Grödnertal, Identifying Antique Dolls, Italian Dolls

Antique Dutch Dolls

a pennywood dutch doll or grodnertal doll

March 17, 2024

Antique American Dolls, Identifying Antique Dolls, Patents

Antique American Doll Patents

March 16, 2024