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I'm looking for information on antique black German baby dolls?

I have a Black antique bisque head w/cloth body baby doll marked K*R 321/5-Who is she and how old is she?
Does anyone know how much she might be worth-She's about 20" and her head is in very good condition but her body is a little dirty. she has her original clothes or at least proper clothes.I'd just like an about an figure-first answer was great

The Kammer & Reinhardt Co. was in existence from 1886 until 1925 and it made the dolls marked K*R in Waltershausen, Thurginia (Germany) The company was most famous for its character dolls. Kammer & Reinhardt made the doll’s body and then added a bisque head produced at the nearby Simon & Halbig porcelain factory. In 1909 Kammer & Reinhardt began experimenting with a whole new line of doll faces based on actual babies and children. The popularity of these new character dolls quickly surpassed those with dolly faces. The molds have been reproduced. I couldn't find the mold # 321/5, but if you search the web or ebay one is sure to turn up eventually.

Who doesn't love a beautiful creamy porcelain faced doll dressed in long flowing dresses of so long ago?

Today the antique dolls available on the market were made by a handful of makers who were from either France or Germany, where the art of doll making was at its peak in the years between 1840 and 1930. During these years there emerged in France a young man by the name of Leon Casimir Bru, the youngest son of a weaver.The young Bru went to work for a dollmaker in Paris... and history began there.

Soon after he began in the work of doll making, Bru opened his own manufacturing company. His first dolls resembled other makers' creations, but his later ones, 1870 and on, carried a signature mark of Bru as he worked to stand out from the many other makers of the time.

Today we have the highly sought after, highly exquisite, highly expensive Bru dolls, a name every collector longs to have in his collection.

Also emerging in France at that time, or sometime before Bru, was Francois Jumeau. He married into the business, marrying the niece of a doll maker. When Jumeau's wife died, he opened his own company, his own porcelain factory, and made the bebe dolls that became so popular in those times and are so popular now... dols that looked like a little girl rather than like an adult woman.

The antique Jumeau today is highly prized for its delicate, exquisite beauty, which was manufactured between the years of 1972 to 1899. In Germany during those years the German makers were just as busy.

They were probably led by J.D. Kestner who was making dolls as early as 1820. By 1860, after Kestner had died and his grandson took over the business. They bought their own porcelain factory to make porcelain heads. They continued to make dolls until 1938.

Armand Marseille was another German maker whose dolls are highly prized by antique collectors today. Marseille was one of the largest and best known porcelain doll head makers. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1856, he emmigrated to Germany with his family ca. 1860 and doll business was going strong by 1886 after he bought a toy factory and a porcelain factory, producing 1000 heads a day from 1900 - 1930.

All types of dolls were made there; bisque child, baby, lady and character dolls with kid leather bodies.

As Marseille worked, so did Heinrich Handwerck, who was beginning his career in 1876. In 1902 Kammer and Reinhardt bought Handwerck out and produced the Handwerck dolls until 1832.

The original dolls by Handwerck were designed by Handwerck but produced by Simon and Halbig and marked by very high quality that continued under Kammer and Reinhardt. Ernst Kammer and Franz Reinhardt founded the Kammer and Reinhardt company in 1886 in Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany. Designers of their own heads, they had them produced by Simon and Halbig as they did not own a porcelain factory. As stated above, they purchased the Handwerck company and then bought the Simon and Halbig company as well.

Ernst Heubach, the son of a weaver, entered the world of doll making when he married the daughter of Armand Marseille in 1919.

The two companies, Heubach and Marseille, merged and became the United Porcelain Factory of Koppelsdorf, Germany. The companies went their own ways once more in 1939.

The exquisite dolls made so long ago by this handful of French and German doll makers are now searched for by serious collectors of the time. Seeing the beautiful faces with the painted or glass eyes looking straight at you with a sense of wisdom that a doll cannot really have... makes you feel the essence of the doll maker himself has been made a real part of each doll.

Doll collecting has been a favorite hobby of many people for many years. A great American dollmaker has had a great influence on collectors of vintage dolls. Madame Alexander is a great blog which tells of her remarkable accomplishments.

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