1904-1928 Horsman Babyland Rag Dolls, 13-28" tall, white or black, all cloth with a simple flat with little detail painted mask face, mitt like hands, some have mohair sewn to top of head, clothing is removable, marked: Genuine Babyland Trade Mark or unmarked.  Some dolls may have the copyright date printed on the lower edge of the head plate, PAT'D JULY 8th 1901, these were made by Albert Brückner for Horsman.  

1907+ Dolls now have lithographed printed face, these seem to be mostly unmarked, they also made a Topsy Turvy doll, that has both a white and black doll face when turned over.

1910-1911 14" tall, Babyland Baby, Babyland Rag, Babyland Topsy, Babyland Topsy Baby, Topsy Turvy, Babyland Fancy, and Babyland Boy.  16 1/2" Babyland Beauty, 20" Babyland Dinah or Babyland Lady, Babyland Big Baby, 30" Babyland Dorothy, Baby and Jackie Robinson.  1911-1912 American Kids in Toyland dolls,

1904 Babyland Rag Doll 13" distributed by Horsman.

1909 Horsman Billiken doll, 12" tall, "Can't Break Em" composition character head on plush body, marked with a cloth label.  It's believed that 200,000 of these dolls were sold in the first six months of production and was a major success for Horsman.  In 1995 Gata, Gatabox LTD of Hong Kong reproduced these dolls in a limited addition.

1909 Billikin doll, 12"

1910-1912 Horsman Baby Bumps doll, 9-18" tall, character doll, black doll or white doll,  "Can't Break Em" composition head, painted facial features, head modeled after Kämmer & Reinhardt's mold 100), hard stuffed cloth body and limbs, doll marked: E.I.H. 1911.

The Horsman Baby Bumps Jr doll, (looks similar to Kestner's mold number 211) was the smallest size at 9", Big Baby Bumps doll the largest at 18", in 1916 Sandy Bumps doll and Mandy Bumps doll,  that came with a shovel & pail.

1911 Black Baby Bumps doll, 14" 

1910-1919 Horsman Peterkin doll, 11 or 13" tall, all adtocolite or later all composition, girls and boys, for-runners of the Campbell Kid line, cherubic painted faces, eyes look slightly to the left or right, smiling closed mouth, molded hair, some dolls have wigs, one piece body and head with jointed arms.  The early Peterkin dolls are unmarked.  (Doll shown is probably re dressed.  The later dolls have a composition head and limbs with a cloth body, was marked: EIH, Inc., came with a variety of different outfits. Also Baby Peterkin doll of the Nature Babies dolls, Betsey Peterkin doll, Dimples doll, Fifi a super grade Petekin doll, Little Peterkin doll, Tommy Peterkin doll and Willie Peterkin doll.  Fulper Pottery Company made an all bisque Peterkin doll in 1919.

1915 Horsman Betsey Peterkin doll 12"

1948 Horsman Campbell Kid doll 12"  painted molded shoes, unmarked

1910 Horsman Little Nemo doll, 15" tall, composition head & short arms, cloth stuffed body with inside disks for limb joints, molded painted hair, painted eyes, closed mouth, marked: E.I.H. © 1910.  Little Nemo is a comic character created by Windsor McCay for the New York Herald on October 15, 1905.

1910 Little Nemo doll, 15"

1911 Horsman Cotton Joe doll, character dolls, 10 or 14" tall, "Can't Break Em" composition brown head with painted features, hard stuffed cloth tan body, olive cloth legs, doll marked: E.I.H. 1911.    Came wearing a red or striped shirt with brown or khaki suspender pants, some may have had a straw hat.  He was one of the original American Kids in Toyland series.

Some other Can't Break Em dolls were; 1919 Little Mary Mix-Up doll 15" or 18" and 1917 Uncle Sam's Kids; Miss Sam doll, Master Sam doll, 15-15 1/2" tall.

1911 Cotton Joe doll 14"

1911 Horsman Puppy Pippin doll & Horsman Pussy Pippin doll, 8" tall, composition head with a plush stuffed body, Grace G. Drayton designed, marked: Copyright 1911 E I Horsman Co. on a cloth label sewn on their tummy.

1911 Puppy Pippin, 8" 

1915 Horsman Baby Darling, six sizes available, composition and cloth dolls

1924-1930s Horsman Baby Darling doll, 16-25" tall, composition head with lightly molded painted blond hair, brown sleep eyes with painted upper and lower lashes, open red painted mouth with two upper and lower teeth, cloth baby body some may have a tummy Mama crier, composition arms with wide spread apart fingers on hands, composition legs to above the knee, doll is unmarked.  This head mold was used by other doll manufacturers as well, including Averill.  An Effanbee Lovums competitor baby doll.

Photo courtesy of littlemarz.

1930s Baby Darling doll, 25"

1915-1918 Horsman Blink doll, 14" tall, comic characters based on Gene Carr's New York World comic strip, "Lady Bountiful".  Dolls were designed by Bernard Lipfert and have round faces and exaggerated features; all 14" tall; other Horsman Gene Carr Kids; Skinny doll, Lizzy doll, Mike doll, Jane doll, Snowball doll and Smoke doll (last two are both black dolls).  

Blink and Mike also came dressed as Carnival Kids in Pierrot type clown outfits. Blink wore a orange and black clown outfit and Mike came in a blue and white one.  (doll is shown re-dressed).

1915-1918 Carnivale Kid 14" 

Blink in pierrot clown outfit

1915 Horsman Boy doll, 15" tall, copy of K & R bisque head doll mold 115 with a pouty mouth (boy or girl), which is also similar to Käthe Kruse's 1912 Fiammingo head mold, flared composition head and short arms, cloth stuffed body, upper arms and straight legs with inside disks at hip joints, molded painted hair, painted brown eyes, closed mouth. Doll is unmarked.

See also Effanbee's Billy Boy Doll 1912-1915, with a similar Fiammingo head mold, with blue painted eyes.

1912 Boy doll, 17" tall, shown is Käthe Kruse's 1912 Fiammingo head mold, with a closed mouth

1918 Horsman Child Doll, 16" tall + other sizes, all composition socket head, sleep eyes, wigged, closed mouth, composition ball jointed body with slanted hips (see next doll for body photo), shown redressed. Doll mark E.I.H. Co. on both head and body.  See next boll who is very similar except the heads are made of bisque.

1918 Child doll, 16"

1919-1921 Horsman Bisque Socket head dolls, heads were made for Horsman first by (1919-1920) Fulper Pottery, then (1920-1921) Nippon a Japan manufacturer.  Composition ball jointed body usually with the Horsman marking: E. I. H Co. on the back.  Heads are marked with the manufacturer's marking, some plus a Horsman mark, too.  Johann Martin Stangl's (MS) initials are sometimes above the Fulper vertical marking + Made in USA., some mold numbers used are: H 1, H 4, 2 B and others.  The Nippon bisque head dolls are marked: Horsman + Nippon + mold number, B 6, B 7, B 9 or just numbers, 1, 2, 3 etc.

1919-1920 MS Fulper marked bisque head doll, 16", toddler body Horsman

1921 Horsman Jackie Coogan doll, 14" tall, composition and cloth, Jackie was a child actor from the Charlie Chaplin film "The Kid" in 1921, there were two dolls; the first one used a generic molded doll head that was used on many other dolls, then a second head was sculpted specifically for the doll by Helen Trowbridge with a likeness of the child actor and wore a pageboy wig. 

Both dolls are dressed in a turtleneck sweater, long pants with suspenders, checked cap and button that said "Horsman Jackie Coogan Kid Patented".

1921 Jackie Coogan, 14" 

The 2nd doll

1923 Horsman Baby Horsman doll, 14, 20 & 24" tall, designed by Edith Hitchcock, composition flange head & hands with loosely stuffed cloth body and limbs, disk jointed shoulders, hip joints are stitched, molded painted hair & facial features (they largest size has painted eyes, the smaller two have sleep eyes), and closed mouth.  Was meant to portray a real life baby and even has dimpled hands.  All are marked: E.I. © H. Co.

1923 Baby Horsman doll, 24"

1924+ Horsman Bunny Tots dolls, 6" tall, all bisque, one piece doll with sculpted bunny hood and pink lined bunny ears, a blond tuft of hair at the forehead, painted side glancing eyes, closed pouty mouth and painted purple shoes and white socks.  Marked on foot: Germany Bunny Tots trademark.  Paper label on chest: Copyright by the E.I. Horsman Co.   

"Bunny Tots Adventures" was the name of a character that appeared in the Washington Post in an illustrated column on Sundays in 1924 and became part of a series of books published by author/illustrator and creator Edward G. McCandlish in 1926 and republished in 1928.

Photo courtesy of Kothera and Thank You to Don Jensen for identifying the doll!

1924+ Bunny Tots doll, 6"

1924 Horsman Tynie Baby doll, 6-9" tall, all bisque with painted facial features, larger dolls 15-21" tall, have composition flange heads and full arms or just the hands, with a cloth body some may have Mama squeakers in tummy, with painted or tin sleep eyes, closed mouth, scowling like face, designed by Bernard Lipfert.  A Bye Lo Baby like competitor.

All bisque small doll mark: © 1924 E.I. HORSMAN Inc. Made in Germany.

Composition and cloth larger doll mark © 1924, E.I.H. Co. Inc. or unmarked.

1924 Tynie Baby doll 9"

1926 Horsman HEbee doll, SHEbee doll, all composition 7 & 11" tall or 4-9" tall, all bisque, painted facial features, both have a molded white painted chemise, girls have pink shoes and boys have blue shoes each with a metal loop on shoe for a bow. 

These character dolls were designed by Charles H. Twelvetrees a cartoonist & illustrator, from his "Twelvetrees Kids" featured in the Pictorial Review and newspapers throughout the USA during the prior decade.

The HEbee shown are both jointed at the shoulder, all composition, HEbee is 9" tall with blue shoes and the SHEbee is 7" tall with pink shoes with bow loops.  Dolls are unmarked but had a paper tag on bottom of foot: Trademark Charles Twelvetrees Copyrighted 1925.                 Photo courtesy of Flozdolz. 

1996-1997 HEbee & SHEbee all bisque dolls were reproduced by Horsman and artists modern reproduction dolls can be easily found at flea markets and auctions.

1925 HEbee & SHEbee dolls

1928 Horsman Baby Dimples doll, 16-18 & 22-24" tall, composition flange head & partial composition limbs on a cloth body, molded painted hair, sleep eyes, open smiling mouth, marked: E.I.H. © CO. INC.  Doll shown unclothed on left is 16" tall.

Doll shown clothed on right is pristine and all original, right down to her shoes.                     Photo courtesy of Wildrose55.

1928 Baby Dimples doll

1928 Horsman Ella Cinders doll, 18" tall, comic character by Bill Conselman & Charlie Plumb, has a composition head with round painted eyes, freckles beneath the eyes, open/closed mouth, cloth body.  Had at least four different costumes, shown is the pink and white checked cotton dress with black sash and white apron.  Marked: © 1925 M.N.S.

Gata, Gatabox LTD of Hong Kong, reproduced this doll in 1988 after they acquired the Horsman name, reproductions were limited to 2,000 - 3,000 dolls.

1928 Ella Cinders doll, 18"

1928 Horsman Mama dolls, various sizes, composition shoulder heads with composition limbs and cloth body, criers, including Baby dolls: Horsman Brother doll & Horsman Sister doll,  12-14 & 18-20' tall and Girl dolls: Horsman Peggy Ann doll & Dolly Rosebud, 14-16 or 22-24" tall.  The Dolly Rosebud doll has her name in the mold on the back of her neck.

1928 Horsman Dolly Rosebud doll 19"

1928 Horsman Mama doll, 20" tall, composition shoulder head, arms & lower legs, cloth stuffed body, stitched hip joints, multi stroke painted eyebrows, grey tin sleep eyes, real upper lashes, painted lower lashes, open mouth with two teeth & celluloid tongue, mohair wig, marked on shoulder plate: E.I. © H. Co., E.I. Horsman, Inc.

1928 Mama doll, 20"

1929 Horsman Boots doll, 14" tall, Patsy type look a like, all composition socket head with jointed body, some have a body twist waist, molded painted hair, large painted brown eyes, dolls are unmarked. 

Note: This doll face mold was also sold by: the Maxine Doll Co. who named their doll Mitzi and is marked on her back and Averill named her dolls; Jimmie a boy and Dimmie a girl, both dolls are unmarked.

1929 Boots doll, 14"

1929-1930 Horsman Peggy Junior, Peggy, Peggy Ann dolls, 12-20" tall, composition doll, molded lightly painted hair with a pin hole or metal loop for a ribbon, has a right bent arm, fully jointed, painted or sleep eyes.  All Peggy dolls are from the Amberg acquired doll molds.

The 12" tall, Horsman Peggy Junior doll is all composition and is marked: IT.

The 14" tall, Horsman Peggy doll is all composition with a body twist waist and is marked: Amberg, Pat. Pend., L. A. & S. © 1928. 

The 20" tall, Horsman Peggy Ann doll has a composition shoulder plate head on a cloth body and is unmarked.

1929 Peggy Jr. doll 12"