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The Kammer & Reinhardt doll company was
formed ca. 1886-1932 in Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany by Ernst
Kammer & Franz Reinhardt. Kammer & Reinhardt designed their dolls
body and bisque heads, but most of the heads were manufactured by Simon
& Halbig (which is why many dolls bare both companies mark on the dolls
neck) as they did not have their own porcelain factory. They also
purchased bisque heads from the porcelain factories of Kling, Quendt & Schuetzmeister. In 1902 they purchased the
Heinrich Handwerck doll
company, when it's founder passed away. By 1920 they 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, both bisque or composition
heads and even cloth costume dolls with wired bodies dressed in various
professions. However they are probably best known for their
character baby & child dolls.
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Here's some Kammer & Reinhardt K & R
dolls we have found:
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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.
Marked: K & R: 191, 192, 191G, 192G, 290, 403 |
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1886-1895 Child Doll, 5-28" |
| ca. 1909+ Character Child Doll, Mein
Liebling (German for: "My Darling"), 12-32" tall, bisque
socket head, composition ball jointed body, glass eyes, open
mouth/closed mouth. Mein Liebling doll face shown is mold
#: K * R, 117A with open mouth. Also,
a closed mouth Mein Liebling bisque head doll is marked
mold #: K * R, 117.
The mold # K * R 117N Mein Liebling
doll has flirty eyes |
Mein Liebling, 27", 117A, OM |
 1909
+ Character
Doll, 12-25" tall, bisque socket or shoulder head,
composition jointed body or kid, or bent limb baby body, molded
& or painted hair or wigged, painted or sleep eyes, open, closed
or open/closed mouth.Doll shown is a
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, mold
number K * R, 127. |
ca. 1909 + Character Doll:
Baby Boy, 12", #127 |
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