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Composition Dolls & Doll Makers

Composition dolls were made by American, English,  French, German and Japan  doll makers.  Early composition dolls were made from glue, glycerin, zinc oxide and Japanese wax, it is a heavy and dense material, the coloring can be almost white, gray or brown.  Each doll manufacturer kept their exact composition "recipe" a secret. 

 

About 1916 doll makers began using ground-up sawdust, also called wood flour, which made a much lighter doll, then the doll was airbrushed with oil paint.  Composition heads were also described by American doll makers, as "unbreakable" opposed to German bisque doll heads that dominated the doll market, prior to World War I 1914-1918.

Water is a composition dolls worst enemy, extremes of temperature in Heat, Humidity over time, affect the wood material which expands or contracts, the painted surface on top doesn't, instead fine lines appear in the paint called crazing and cracks that expose the material below.  After World War II (1939-1945) plastic material was developed that was light and durable, by the end of the 1940s plastic replaced composition as a material used to make dolls by American doll makers.  Here is a list of all pages on composition dolls.

 

Doll Makers by Country  American USA | Doll Glossary | Doll Makers World | English UK | French FR | German DE

Dolls by Material  Bisque | Celluloid | China | Cloth | Composition | Hard Plastic | Metal | Papier Mache | Rubber | Wax | Wood

 

Composition Dolls on this page

Abramson dolls, Acorn dolls, Alisto dolls, American Ocarina & Toy, American Produced Stuffed Toy, American Toy & Doll, American Toy & Novelty, Arcade Toy, Arcy Toy, Atlantic Playthings, Atlas Doll Co, Baby Phyllis dolls, Lilli & Roman Baitz, Baker & Bennett, Beck dolls, Bellas Hess dolls, Berry & Ross dolls, Berwick dolls, Best & Co, Bester dolls, Bijou Doll, Blechman dolls, Bleier dolls, Boulton dolls, Boulton Woolf dolls, Emma Bristol dolls, Capitol Toy dolls, Central dolls, Herman Cohen, L. Cohen dolls, Colonial Doll & Toys, Columbia Doll & Toy, Comic Character dolls, Confetti dolls, Crown dolls, Crown Doll & Toys, Dollcraft Novelty, Dollparts & Supply, Eureka Doll Co, Elektra, Exposition dolls, Gem, Halco Dolls, Joy Doll, L D dolls, M & S Shillman, Magic Light Products, Maxine dolls, Metropolitan dolls, Mitred dolls, Modern dolls, Modern Toy dolls, Natural Doll Co, Nibur dolls, Perfect Toy dolls, Progressive dolls, Quaker dolls, Quan Quan dolls, Santa Claus doll, Superior dolls, Tajimi Trading dolls, Taiyo Trading dolls, 3 In 1 Dolls, Trion Toy.

 

ABC Co Dolls 1930s-1950s 

Acme Dolls 1908-1930s

Advertising Dolls 1893-1970s

Aetna Dolls 1901-1925

Alexander Dolls 1923-1947

Allied Grand Dolls 1915-1980 

Louis Amberg Dolls 1878-1930 

American Character Dolls 1919-1968

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American Doll Company 1912-1926

Art Craft Toy Products dolls 1918-1920

Arranbee R & B Dolls 1922-1961

Arrow Plastics Dolls 1940-1950s 

Arrow Skookum Dolls 1920-1950s

Atlas Doll Company 1921-1922

Georgene Hendren Averill Dolls 1915-1965

 

Babs Manufacturing walking dolls 1917-1921

George Borgfeldt Dolls 1881-1959

A. Bucherer & Cie Dolls 1921-1935

Buddy Lee Dolls 1920-1962

Butler Brothers Dolls 1877-1935

 

Cameo Dolls 1922-1970s

Century Doll Co 1909-1928

Dewees Cochran Dolls 1934-1970s

Harry H. Coleman walking dolls 1917-1923 Composition Doll Marks 1899+

 

Dream World Dolls late 1930s-1950s

Dress Me, dressed dolls 1944+

 

Eegee Dolls 1917-1980

Effanbee F & B Dolls 1912-1939 | 1940-70s

F & B Little Lady, Anne Shirley Doll Clothes

Eugenia Dolls 1930s-1950s

 

Ralph Freundlich Dolls 1923-1945 

 

Hamburger & Co Dolls 1889-1910

Hedwig de Angeli Dolls 1940s (Hoyer)

Hollywood Dolls 1941-1956

Horsman Dolls 1904-1929 |1930-1940s

Mary Hoyer Dolls 1925-1970s    

Ideal Dolls 1910-1939 | 1940s

Sybil Jason dolls 1935-1940s

 

K & K Toy Company Dolls 1915-1930s

F & H Kiesewetter Dolls 1900s

Knickerbocker Doll & Toy 1925-1983

 

Manhattan Doll Co walking doll 1919-20

Mollyes Dolls 1929-1970s

Monica Dolls 1941-1952

Morimura Bros Nippon Dolls 1915-1926

 

Nancy Ann Storybook Dolls 1936-1968

 

Paris Doll Corp Dolls Peggy 1940s-1956

Patsy Look A-like Doll types 1930s

Earle Pullan Dolls 1945-1967

 

Jessie M. Raleigh Dolls 1916-1920

Regal Dolls 1919-1940

Reliable Toy Dolls 1920-1940s

Roberta Dolls 1940s-1970s 

Royal Dolls 1914-1977

 

Sears Happi-Time Dolls 1901-1967

Sewing Mannequin Doll 1938-1950s

PD Smith Dolls 1913-1922

Spiegel Dolls 1933+

Strobel & Wilken Dolls 1864-1930

 

Terri Lee Dolls 1946-1962

Tip Top Toy Dolls 1912-1921

Trego Dolls 1918-1921

 

Uneeda Dolls 1917-1961

Vogue Dolls 1922-1972  Ginny dolls

 

Buy, Collect, Sell or get pricing values worth for antique to vintage Composition dolls, try ebay completed auctions

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