The Doll Reference website is dedicated to identifying dolls antique, vintage to modern porcelain dolls for doll collectors, buyers or sellers. Look your doll over carefully for a mark and lets begin . . .
Use the doll mark pages with over 4,000 image marks, more markings on the doll makers by Country pages. Didn’t find your mark? use our free forum board to let us know and we’ll add it.
Dolls by Type of Material
Dolls are classified by the material of the head
Celluloid Dolls
Celluloid dolls are made from cellulose nitrate, alcohol, fillers and camphor . . Read More
Composition Dolls
Early composition dolls were made from glue, glycerin, zinc oxide and Japanese wax . . . Read More
Hard Plastic Dolls
The first dolls produce in the new material of plastic were by the Ideal Toy Company in . . . Read More
Metal Dolls
France has the first patent recorded by René Poulin in 1861 for making doll heads . . . Read More
Papier Mache Dolls
Antique papier mâché, carton moulé, carton pâte or holz-masse are all terms . . . Read More
Porcelain Dolls
Porcelain collector dolls were sold beginning in the 1970s to present, they were meant
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Rubber Dolls
Caoutchouc, India rubber or gum was used for centuries to make dolls or parts of dolls . . . Read More
Wax Dolls
Some of the oldest known existing examples of dolls have been found made of wax . . . Read More
Wood Dolls
Wood is a fairly easy material to carve or whittle to create a crude doll in the form of a human . . . Read More
