Italian Crèche all wax baby Jesus

Christ child doll or figure 9 1/2" tall

Antique Wax Dolls, Wax Doll Makers

Some of the oldest known existing examples of dolls have been found made of wax,  There are three basic types of wax dolls. 

Ancient-1800s Poured Wax Dolls are made of tinted wax, hair is inserted into the head, have molded eyelids, realistic facial modeling and hollow poured limbs, sometimes marked on shoulder plate. 

1800-1900s Wax Over Dolls are made of clear wax, molded hair or wigged, no molded eyelids and solid limbs. 

1860-1890 Reinforced Wax Dolls are made of tinted wax, wigged, molded eyelids, realistic facial modeling and hollowed poured limbs.

See below for more Wax dolls, Doll Makers, Wax Dolls For Sale.

Ehrich Brothers wax dolls

Dominico Checkeni wax multi face dolls 1866-1885

Phillip Goldsmith wax dolls 1890

  - wax over composition doll heads

Rebecca Johnson wax dolls 1887 US

  - cloth head dipped in wax dolls

C. F. Lauer dolls 1842-1888+ NYC, US

  - an importer, distributor of American, England, 

  France & German dolls made of; bisque, china,

   composition, parian, rubber, wax

Martin & Rimpel wax dolls 1881 NYC

Mary McEwen wax over composition head 1910-1930s

Oates Wax Studio wax figurine dolls 1927-1928

Elizabeth Scantlebury wax dolls 1920s NYC, US

Minna Moschersch Schmidt dolls 1923-1930s

  - wax portrait, wax historical dolls

Antonio Vargas wax dolls 1915-1920

William Augustus Webber dolls 1882-1885

  -  wax over composition head singing doll

Frederic Aldis wax dolls 1878-1901

   - wax dolls, some with Pierotti heads, limbs,

   glass eyes, some with inset hair, cloth body,

   marked Dolls Toys Games F. Aldis 11 & 13 Belgrave

   Mansion SW

Thomas Aldred wax dolls 1881-1903

   - wax dolls, some with Pierotti heads

Bailey & Baxter wax dolls 1916

   - unglazed porcelain dolls dipped in wax

Batger & Co wax dolls 1915-1922

   - colored wax heads, limbs, cloth body

Anthony Bazzoni wax dolls 1828-1878

   - wax and composition dolls

S. Coleman wax dolls prior to 1867

 - Nos. 6, 7, 11, 12, & 26, Ground Floor Pantheon, Oxford

Dolphitch Mfg Co wax dolls 1909-1918

John Edwards wax dolls 1868+

Joseph Evans & Sons dolls 1868-1881

   - wax head dolls, cloth body with ink stamp

Charles Marsh wax dolls 1865-1914

Herbert John Meech wax dolls 1865-1917

Madame Augusta Montanari wax dolls 1851-1884

Morell wax dolls 1870-1930

Nellfoy & Co wax over composition doll heads 1916-1921

Lucy Peck wax dolls 1891-1930

Pierotti wax dolls 1770-1942

William Pitfield wax dolls 1875-1894

Edward Poole dolls wax dolls 1854-1865

William Poole wax, composition dolls 1852-1855

Roncorone beeswax dolls 1800s

Santy Inventor, wax over composition doll heads 1860

  - 340 Long Room, Soho. Bazaar, London

Slit Head wax dolls ca. 1850-60 various English doll makers

Edward Smith wax dolls 1880s

   - The City Toy Shop, 8 Cheap Side London, E. C.

Gilbert H. Spicer dolls 1916-1917

  - British ceramic, composition, wax dolls

Charles Edward Turnbull bisque, china, wax dolls 1895-1925

Max Carl & Co wax dolls 1891-1905

Bernhard Fischer wax Taufling dolls 1895-1914

Gebruder Haag doll mark Biskuit-Imitation 1886-1925+

   - washable, wax, molded wax dolls

Georg Hoffmann wax dolls 1895+ Rauenstein

Leopold Illfelder wax doll heads on cloth or kid 1874+

R. Leuthauser wax dolls 1895+

Amandus Michaelis & Co dolls 1870-1930s

   - leather, papier mache, Täufling, wax dolls

Andre Muller wax dolls 1895+ Sonneberg

G. Schmey wax dolls 1895+

Kammer & Reinhardt  wax dolls 1886+

Kestner wax over papier mache dolls 1860+

Lotte Pritzel wax head art dolls 1908-1920s

Heinrich Steiner wax dolls 1895-1912

Zeuch & Lausmann wax dolls 1895+

Paul Richard Zierow wax dolls 1882-1932

Ecuador wax dolls

Herrera Y Hoyo wax dolls 1893 Mexico

Spain wax dolls

Josef Kubelka wax over porcelain doll heads 1880s Vienna