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The Dressel family toy and doll business
in Sonneberg, Germany operated for a very long time and passed from one
generation to the next, by 1873 the company was known as the Cuno & Otto
Dressel Factory.
Dressel purchased bisque doll heads from noted
manufacturers such as: Simon & Halbig, Ernst Heubach, Gebruder Heubach,
Limbach
and
Armand Marseille. They expanded to three factories in which; dolls were
produced in Sonneberg, metal toys in Nurnberg and wood toys in Grunhainichen, Germany.
Cuno & Otto Dressel
was a very prolific producer of
dolls and toys. The Dressel company used many different
markings; letters of C, E D, symbol of a winged helmet, initials of
C.O.D. and some trade names were:1903 Fifth Avenue dolls, 1907 Jutta (doll molds 1348, 1349, 1914), 1909
Bambina dolls, 1910 Jutta
Baby (doll molds 1920, 1922), 1912 Poppy Doll (School boy), Superior, Victoria and Holz-Masse (wooden
composition).
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Cuno & Otto Dressel, winged helmet doll
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Some Dressel doll marks for character dolls are;
S or D + a mold number.
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Uncle Sam Doll, 13" tall
1896 Portrait Doll Series, 10-15" tall,
bisque heads with portrait face, glass eyes, composition jointed
body. Some Dressel character dolls names are; Admiral Dewey,
Admiral George Dewey, Admiral William Thompson Sampson, Admiral
Winfield Scott Schley, Buffalo Bill, a Farmer, Old Rip and shown above is Uncle Sam.
Photo above courtesy of Lebarn
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