Wonderful vintage flexible Dollhouse Doll Grandpa Man by Grecon England

c1940s to early 1950s

3 1/2 inches or 9 cm tall

Original label Grecon Made in England

Great detail

Painted facial features, no fading, no wear

Wire eye glasses

Some small holes in fabric of head

White wool yarn hair and moustache, some thread loss for side of head and moustache

Felt and fabric clothing, no fading

Black felt coat

Grey felt vest with white seed bead buttons

Herringbone tweed fabric trousers

Black wool yarn thread necktie, white felt collar

White fabric shirt

Molded black lead shoes/feet

Stands well

1:18 to 1:24 scale

Last photo show other Grecon Dollhouse Dolls available, each listed separately.

Grecon trademark name comes from using letters within the creator's name Margarete Cohn. Originally registered in Germany in 1920, she made her first dollhouse dolls in 1927. Margarete fled to England in 1936 and resumed production of her little dolls. Grecon name was registered in England in 1940. She sold through large and small stores including Hamleys, A Barton & Co up to 1986. She died in 1991. Early dolls were entirely hand made by Margarete. Later she employed cottage workers to outsource some of the finishing/clothing.
Dolls have a wire frame, padded out with cotton waste, torsos wrapped with fabric, and then wrapped/bound with thread or wool yarn for their limbs. Early heads were wrapped wooden buttons, covered with fabric with handpainted features and wool yarn hair, later just fabric circles padded out. Feet are molded lead, various sizes over the years. Early feet were wide wedges. Oxford feet / small oxford feet, molded with heel and laces detail, date the doll to the mid 1940s to early 1950s. Early dolls had no labels. The style of label dates to the same time line as the oxford feet. Later labels, starting late 1950s, included the term Little-People with a hypen. Even later, 1960s into the 80s the term did not have a hyphen on the labels, and feet were even smaller and the later dolls have trouble standing.