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China head dolls
were made by various companies from 1840-1940. The vast majority of
china dolls were made in Germany. China head dolls are usually found on a wood, cloth or
a kid body and some have partial limbs of china too. May
have molded hair or have a wig over a solid bald dome.
Their sizes range from a tiny 3" to a big and heavy 40"
tall.
Many of the china head dolls
are unmarked, or may have a mold number; it can be impossible to pinpoint the manufacturer, so
most dolls are described and identified by their hairstyles.
As hairstyles changed the dolls reflected this and changed too.
So how well do you know your hairstyles?
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1840's
China Head Doll - Bun (Damenkoph)
lady head or young Queen Victoria, hairstyle is in a bun, braid or rolled in the
back.
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1840's
China Head Doll - Child
(Kinderkoff) head
Can
be a female or male child shoulder head.
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1840's
China Head Doll -
K.P.M. (Company, name not a hairstyle) head
Very
rare blanc de chine male shoulder head
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1840's
China Head Doll - Lydia head,
hairstyle
parted in the center, smooth on top, ringlet type long curls on
sides.
2nd
photo is of a Sophia/Lydia head - in other words it's too close
to both styles to differentiate.
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1840's
China Head Doll - Queen
Victoria head
with exposed ears
If
you look at many of the photo's here, you will not see ears
beneath the hair - but this one shows the ears.
Made
by TPM, Carl Tiesch company in Poland 1840's.
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1840's
China Head Doll - Sophia
Smith head,
hairstyle with straight sausage curls
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1850's
China Head Doll -
Biedermier or bald head,
would have had a wig over the
sold dome head
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1850's
China Head Doll - Covered
wagon head, hairstyle center part, flat on top with curls
around the head
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1850's
China Head Doll - Greiner
style head,
hairstyle
middle part, wavy on the sides with comb marks, high forehead
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1860's
China Head Doll - Alice
in Wonderland head,
hairstyle with molded headband,
on a Motschamm type body.
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1860's
China Head Doll -
Countess Dagmar head,
hairstyles various elaborate and has
pierced ears
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1860's
China Head Doll -
Highbrow head, hairstyle with center part, flat top, curls
around head, round face with high forehead
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1860's
China Head Doll - Jenny
Lind head,
hairstyle part in the middle, hair is pulled
back into a bun, high forehead
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1860-70's
China Head Doll - Mary
Todd Lincoln head,
hairstyle - hair is pulled back and
held in a snood.
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Photo
N/A
1860's
China Head Doll - Morning
Glory head,
hairstyle hair pulled back, wavy on sides has
a molded flower at the neck
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1860's
China Head Doll -
Waterfall head,
hairstyle
- you better just take a look at the photo, lol
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1860-1870's
China Head Doll - Flat top, High
brow, or Civil War head,
hairstyle part in middle,
short curls, high forehead and flat top
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1870's
China Head Doll - Adelina
Patti head,
hairstyle, center part, rolled elaborate curls
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1870's
China Head Doll - Curly
Top head,
hairstyle
has ringlet curls over entire head
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1870's
China Head Doll - Dolly
Madison head,
hairstyle with curls all over the head with
molded ribbon
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1870's
China Head Doll - Spill
Curl head, hairstyle of curls on forehead and
"spilling" down the neck
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1870's
China Head Doll - Currier
& Ives head,
hairstyle
with bangs, some have hair details ie. a headband (shown is a
parian head that is untinted bisque)
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1880's
China Head Doll -
Highland Mary head,
hairstyle with bangs and curls at
sides.
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1890's
China Head Doll -
Low Brow
head, hairstyle is common for this era with all over curls
could be blonde or black hair.
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1895's China
Head Doll - Pet Name
head by Hertwig, doll
name is printed in gold on front, names are: Agnes, Bertha,
Daisy, Dorothy, Edith, Florence, Helen, Mabel, Marion, Pauline
& Ruth.
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1900's
China Head Doll -
Japan - china heads
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1900's
China Head Doll -
Bonnet heads,
Like
their name implies they are
wearing a bonnet over their hair.
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1905's
China Head Doll -
Low Brows with jewel necks head
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Photo
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1920-1930
China Head Doll -
Low brows head
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Photo
N/A
1940's
China Head Doll |
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Some of the companies that made the
china head dolls are: Alt, Beck &
Gottschalk, Dressel & Kister (these are usually heads or half
dolls), Hertwig & Co. (distributed thru Butler Brothers &
Bawo & Dotter NY importers ), Kling, KPM Berlin, KPM Meissen,
A.W. Fr. Kister, Kestner & Co., and Conta & Boehme, Kloster Veilsdorf
- made the so-called Greiner type china's, (German), Rorstrand (Sweden),
Royal Copenhagen (Denmark), Jacob Petit, Huret and Rohmer (French).
The KPM
factories are the oldest and most desirable of china head dolls. The Thuringian
area in Germany had many other porcelain factories that produced china
dolls
as well.
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This entire page was made possible
by the china head experts & collectors; Dturnersan, Wildrose55, Barb, and I am sure we missed a few others, who lent their
expertise and photos, to bring this page to the Internet to share with
you.
A
huge Thanks to everyone for their
contributions and help with this page. We
all, hope you enjoy the results of our efforts.
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