| 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.
They purchased bisque doll heads from noted
manufacturers as: Simon & Halbig, Ernst Heubach, Gebrüder Heubach &
Armand Marseille. They expanded to three factories; dolls were
produced in Sonneberg, metal toys in Nurnberg and wood toys in
Grunhainichen, Germany. They were a very prolific producer of
dolls and toys.
Here's some Dressel dolls we have
found:
| 1896 Portrait Series, 10-15" tall,
bisque heads with portrait face, glass eyes, composition jointed
body. Some of the characters were; Admiral Dewey,
Buffalo Bill, a Farmer, Old Rip and Uncle Sam.
Some of the marks for these character dolls are
an S or D + a number.
Photo courtesy of Lebarn |
Uncle Sam, 13" tall |
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