Description
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This doll is Antique. My friends Grandmother who is now 78 years old had this doll when she was just 3 yrs old. As you can see there are signs of wear, mostly due to to age. But overall still pretty, the hands and feet are beautifully detailed. The head can be turned 360" and the feet and the shoulders can move freely. Because of what happened to the eyes, this is a great Doll this Halloween. Exactly as Pictured & Listed!
Here is what I found online about Antique Rubber Dolls:
Early antique rubber vulcanized doll makers; Goodyear Rubber Company (US), India Rubber Comb Company, Benjamin F. Lee Company, New York Rubber Company (used Goodyear Patent March 28, 1854), Newark India Rubber Company, English doll makers; Metropolitan India Rubber Company and the Vulcanite Company.
1856-1925 Phoenix of Germany made rubber dolls. 1860-1876 Baculard (1870s Favier joined the firm) of Paris, France, patented using gutta-percha for making doll heads. In 1875 both Ansil W. Monroe and Wesley Miller (USA) obtained patents for making rubber dolls. In the late 1870s Jne, Bru & Cie, Jules Nicholas Steiner and Derolland were all making rubber bébés in France.
Doll makers in Austria, England, France, Germany, Hungary and other European countries, also made rubber dolls.
Additional Rubber Doll Makers 1873+
1873+ Rheinische Gummi und Celluloid-Fabrik GER, Rhenania Rubber and Celluloid Factory
1880-1917 A.S. Cartwright USA, made rubber dolls and accessories
1884-1898 E. Ridley & Sons USA, distributed rubber dolls
1890-1904 Louis Delachal FRA, doll mark LD, doll name; Bébé Caoutchouc - rubber baby dolls
1890s Matz Dittmer GER, made rubber dolls
1901 Montgomery Ward USA, department store advertised All Rubber dolls
1910 Butler Brothers USA, importer and distributer All Rubber dolls and during World War I
1914-1966 Natural Doll Company USA, made rubber dolls
1914-1920s Société Française de Jouets & de Caoutchouc Bébés, FRA made rubber dolls
1915-1917 Mechanical Rubber Company USA, made rubber dolls, marked M on a shield
1915-1930 Thomas Salter LTD. UK, produced India rubber dolls
1916-1923 Faultless Rubber Company USA, made rubber dolls; Sweetie doll 3 3/4" tall, all red or tan rubber
1919-1939 Regal Doll Corporation USA, advertised rubber dolls
1920s some composition dolls had rubber joints, hands or limbs; arms or legs
1920s-1930s T. Eaton Company of Canada, advertised rubber dolls as well as many other types
1921-1926 Eccles of England, made rubber dolls with molded clothes
1921-1930 E. L. Sommers & Company USA, made rubber doll that crawl or dolls that removes its hat
1924-1925 Amberg & Hergershausen GER, made rubber or composition dolls with mama voice box's
1924-1927 Mittelland Gummiwerke GER, made rubber dolls
1924-1930 Strasserpuppen Werkstatten (Strasser Doll Workshop) of Berlin, Germany, workshop of
Hedwig Maria Strasser Huldschinsky, made lifelike art portrait dolls with rubber heads that were advertised as
washable 12-23 1/2" tall named; 1924 Babs, Gerda, Hansi, Maria, 1926 Buby, Plumsi dolls
1926-1930s Schavoir Rubber Company USA, made red and white rubber dolls
1928 Bing Brothers of Germany and USA, distributed world wide rubber dolls
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