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Pre-1909 Dolly Face doll, 66 cm. or 26" tall, K & R with no mold number
in marking, jointed composition body, S & H bisque socket head,
W on forehead, cardboard pate, blonde mohair wig, blue sleep eyes, painted upper and lower lashes, feathered brows, open mouth
with teeth, pierced ears. |
Kammer & Reinhardt K & R star doll marking
The Kämmer & Reinhardt doll company was
formed ca. 1886-1932 in Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany by Ernst
Kammer and Franz Reinhardt. Kämmer & Reinhardt designed their dolls
body and bisque heads, but most of the heads were manufactured by Simon
& Halbig (which is why many dolls have both companies mark; K
& R and S & H), as K & R did not have their own porcelain factory. They also
purchased bisque heads from the porcelain factories of Kling and Quendt & Schuetzmeister. In 1902
K & R purchased the
Heinrich Handwerck doll
company, when it's founder passed away, by 1920 they also acquired the Simon
& Halbig company, as well.
From 1886 to
1909 they made only dolly faced dolls with a bisque head on a
composition ball jointed body or kid, many with an open mouth with
teeth. After 1909 they made many types of dolls; bisque,
composition or celluloid heads and even cloth costume dolls with wired bodies dressed
in various professions. However, K & R is probably best known for their
character baby and child dolls.
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Other registered trademark doll names used by Kammer &
Reinhardt are; Kaiser Baby 100, Charakter Puppe (Character Doll),
Carl 107, Der Schelm (The Rascal), Der Unart (Naughty One), Dis
Kokette (the Coquette), Elsa and Walter 102, Elsie 109, Hans and
Gretchen 114, Majestic Doll, Mein Kleines (My Little Ones), My Darling, My Playmate,
The Flirt of their Royal Line, Marie and Peter 101, Max and Mortz 123, 124.
Here are some Kämmer & Reinhardt - K & R
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dolls we have found:
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ca. 1909 + Character Child Doll, 22" tall, bisque
socket head, composition ball jointed body, glass eyes, feathered brows,
painted upper and lower eyelashes, open mouth, closed pouty mouth.
Shown at right is Kammer & Reinhardt's
Character Child doll
face, doll mold 115, she's 22" tall.
This K & R bisque head doll mold 115 was also
copied by American doll makers;
Effanbee for their 1912 Billy Boy composition doll head,
Horsman who made a 1915 Boy
doll with a composition head and is similar to German doll maker; Käthe
Kruse's 1912 Fiamingo head mold.
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ca. 1909 Character Child Doll, 22", doll mold 115 |
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ca. 1909+ Character Child Doll, Mein
Liebling (German for: "My Darling"), 12-32" tall, bisque
socket head, composition ball jointed body, glass eyes,
feathered brows, painted upper and lower eyelashes, open
mouth or closed mouth.
Mein Liebling doll mold
K * R, 117A has a open mouth (OM).
Shown on right; closed mouth Mein Liebling, bisque doll head is marked
doll mold K * R, 117 (CM).
Doll mold K * R 117N Mein Liebling
doll - some have flirty, tremble eyes. |
ca. 1909 Mein Liebling doll, 27",
doll mold 117, closed
mouth |
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 1909
+ Character
Doll, 12-25" tall, bisque socket or shoulder head,
composition jointed body or kid, or bent limb baby body, molded
and/or painted hair or wigged, painted or sleep eyes, open, closed
or open/closed mouth.
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ca. 1909 + Character Doll,
Baby Boy, 12", doll mold 127
Doll shown above and left;
Character
Baby Boy, 12" tall, bisque socket head, composition jointed
bent limb baby body, painted molded hair, glass sleep eyes,
feathered painted eyebrows, painted lashes, open mouth, doll mold
K * R, 127. |
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1886-1895 Child Doll, 5-28" tall, bisque
head on a ball jointed composition & wood body, feathered painted
brows, glass sleep eyes or painted eyes with painted lashes,
open or closed mouth,
wigged, some may have pierced ears.
Doll mark KR,
doll mold K & R + 191, 192, 191G, 192G, 290,
401, 403. |
1886-1895 Child Doll, 20", doll mold 403 |
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ca. 1929 Rosi,
unknown all the sizes but at least as tall as 25", biscaloid
head, glassene eyes, closed mouth, wigged, composition jointed
body. Doll mark Rosi Germany +
her size number in centimeters.
Photo
courtesy of Luminaire.iceplains. |
ca. 1929 Rosi, Germany, 58 cm. or 23" tall |
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