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Armand Marseille Doll Co. - Dolls 1885-1950's German

Armand Marseille of Sonneberg & Koppelsdorf, Thuringia, Germany was one of the worlds largest and best known bisque doll head manufacturers.  Armand was born in 1856 in St. Petersburg, Russia the son of an architect, and immigrated to Germany with his family a short while after 1860.  In 1884 he bought the toy factory of Mathias Lambert in Sonneberg and in 1885 acquired the porcelain factory of Lidbermann & Wegscher in Koppelsdorf . . . and his empire in the doll world began.

From 1900-1930 it's reported they produced 1,000 bisque doll heads a day.  They made bisque headed child, baby, lady & character dolls with kid bodies and most with glass eyes but some were painted eyes, as well as bisque & composition dolls and bisque heads with cloth bodies.  They interestingly did not produce the body of their dolls but purchased those from other doll manufactures.

Here are some Armand Marseille Doll mold Numbers and markings we have found:

Note:  Not all of the Armand Marseille doll mold numbers are listed here.

ca. 1920 Googly eye doll, 12" tall, bisque head with glass side glancing  "googly" eyes, closed smiling mouth, jointed composition or paper mâché toddler body, some with painted socks an shoes. 

Doll shown on right is a rare Googly eye mold 240, with a single molded painted top knot and one wisp of molded painted hair on each side of the head, blue side glancing googly eyes with painted upper & lower lashes, closed smiling mouth, jointed composition toddler body.

Other Armand Marseille Googly eye doll molds are: 200, 240, 241, 253, & 323 

Note: these Googly doll mold numbers are not exclusive to Marseille, other doll manufacturers may have also used them as well.

Googlie mold 240

Googly eye doll, 12", mold 240

Marseille mold 370, 22"Doll, 10-42" tall, bisque shoulder head, kid body or cloth, wigged, glass eyes, some have fur eyebrows, open slight smiling mouth. Usually has Made in Germany/AM/Armand Marseille in the marking with the mold number.

 

Other doll names were: Alma, Darling, Duchess, Lily, Lissy, Mabel, My Dearie, My Playmate, Rosebud.

 

Shown on left is the face mold 370, Shown at right is a Floradora marked doll, 19-20" tall.

Floradora 20"

Floradora 19-20"

 

270, 309, 370, 376, 920, 2015, 3200

Doll, 10-42" tall, bisque shoulder head, kid body or composition, wigged, glass eyes, open slight smiling mouth. Usually has the AM/DEP/Made in Germany in the marking with the mold number.

Some of the dolls names are: Baby Betty, Beauty, Jubilee, Majestic, Princess, Queen Louise.

Doll shown on right is a Queen Louise doll,  23" tall.

Queen Louise 23"

Queen Louise, 23"

 

1374, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1909, 3091, 3093, 3095, 3200, 3300, 3500, 3700, 4008

Doll, Bisque Socket head, various sizes from 10 - 42" tall, wood & composition jointed body, wigged, glass eyes, open slight smiling mouth. Usually has Made in Germany/Armand Marseille in the marking with mold number.

Doll shown on right is ca. 1900 and is mold 29, Princess doll, with the jointed composition body.

Other dolls names were:  Baby Betty, Floradora, Queen Louise, Rosebud.

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Princess, 20", mold 29

 

29, 384, 390, 390n, 391, 395, 1894, 1897, 2010, 3600

Doll, Bisque Socket head, various sizes from 10 - 42" tall, wood & composition jointed body, wigged, glass eyes, open slight smiling mouth. Usually has Made in Germany/Armand Marseille in the marking with mold number. 

Doll shown on right is mold 390 with the "stick" legs on a joined composition & wood body.

Stick body 14", mold 390

ca. 1910-1930 Character Lady, some dolls have an M. H. in the marking with the mold number.

 

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400, 401, some have and M. H. in the marking

Character Baby, usually has Germany A.M. DRGM in marking with the mold number.

Bisque head, glass eyes, painted upper & lower eyelashes, feathered eyebrows, open or closed mouth, wigged, composition jointed baby bent limb body.

Character baby, mold 985

Character Baby, 10" mold 985

 

256, 326, 327, 329, 347, 352, 360a, 750, 760, 790, 900, 927, 971, 980, 984, 985, 990, 991, 992, 996, 1330, 1333,

usually has DRGM in marking

Infant Baby, composition bent limb body or flange neck with cloth body, usually marked with AM Germany and the composition body has a K at the end of the marking.

Doll shown is a 1926 Kiddiejoy, 10" tall ad.

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341, 351, 342, Kiddiejoy, Our Pet

Named Character Baby, bisque head, flange neck, cloth body & composition partial limbs. 

Doll shown on right is Baby Gloria, 16" tall, clothing may not be original.

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Baby Gloria, 16"

 

Named Character Baby, shoulder head.  Baby Phyllis doll shown is 11" tall.  Other Baby doll names were: Baby Betty, Baby Ellen.

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Baby Phyllis, 11"

Character Baby or Child doll, some have glass eyes others are painted. Photo N/A

Usually marked only with AM

 

Dolls with painted eyes, various sizes, jointed composition body and their mold numbers. Photo N/A

Doll with painted eyes

345, 560/232, 600/234, 640a/234, 700, 950, AM only marked

ca. 1925 Just Me, Character doll, sized 7 1/2" - 13" tall, bisque head, sleep eyes, painted lashes, feathered brows, closed bow mouth, jointed composition body.  Mold number 310 & 318.

The Just Me dolls were also sold by the Vogue Doll company

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Just Me, 12" tall, mold 310

 

Armand Marseille supplied bisque doll heads to other doll makers German and USA: 

Louis Amberg

Arranbee

C. M. Bergmann

George Borgfeldt

Bouton

Butler Brothers

Cohen & Sons

Cuno & Otto Dressel Eckart & Co.
Edmand Edelmann Foulds & Freure Otto Gans
Eugene Goldberger Jacobs & Kassler Hitz Leopold Illfelder & Co.
Ernst Maar & Sohn Montgomery Ward Dept. Stores W. G. Muller
Emil Pfeiffer Quaker Dolls Joseph Roth Mfg. Co.
Phillip Samhammer Peter Scherf Sears Dept. Stores
Seyfarth & Reinhardt Siegel Cooper Edmund Ulrich Steiner
Wagner & Wetzsche John Wanamaker Wiegand
Adolf Wislizenus Louis Wolf and possibly others

Armand Marseille Doll Co. - Dolls 1885-1950's German

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