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Hermann Steiner of Sonneberg and Neustadt,
Germany and in Bavaria entered the doll market at the end of the German bisque doll era and began producing
dolls around 1920. They are probably best know for their character baby
or infant dolls, which were the doll of choice - at that time. A
1921 registered trademark is My Pearl doll. Hermann Steiner appears
to have supplied dolls to the M. Kohnstam &
Company, as the MOKO
mark plus the HS Steiner mark have been found. H. Steiner's London agent
was Boult, Wade & Tennant and in the USA the distributor was Roth,
Baitz & Lipsitz.
H. Steiner produced both composition and
bisque doll heads; with painted or glass eyes, molded hair or wigged,
a
body of cloth, kid or composition.
Below are some Hermann Steiner dolls we have found |
Hermann Steiner often uses these letters in their
marking: H S H S N H S
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Hermann Steiner doll mold numbers are:
128, 131, 133, 223, 240, 242, 245, 246, 247, 401, 947, 1000,
95464
and some doll bodies are stamped 954642.
Hermann Steiner - H S marking |
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1920+ Character Baby,
8-16" tall, Bye-lo Baby type look a like, bisque head with flange
neck, painted or glass eyes,
solid dome head with molded painted hair or wigged, closed or open mouth,
cloth or jointed composition body, bisque or composition hands, usually marked: H S
Germany, 131, 240, 246, 401.
This infant character doll was also made with a composition head
and hands.
Mold number 947 is a composition head doll with googly
disk eyes, closed smiling mouth, on a all cloth jointed body, usually marked
DRGM 95464 HS Germany 947. |
1920+
Character Baby, Bye Lo type 10", painted eyes |
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1920+ Pierrot Clown
Baby, 8" tall, bisque socket head, painted eyes and face, mohair wig,
jointed composition body, he's wearing a tall green hat that would have
complemented his clown costume (we had to crop his hat in order to get the photo
to fit this page, sorry baby clown), marked: Herm Steiner 16/0. |
1920+ Pierrot Clown Baby, 8" |
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1920+ Dolly face,
10-22" tall,
bisque socket head, glass eyes, open mouth, wigged,
jointed composition body, usually marked:
H S Germany or
Herm
Steiner
Germany
Also, Tessie, doll mark, HS size # Moko Bavaria or
Tessie Germany size #, for the Moses Kohnstam Company. |
1920+ Dolly face
22"
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