Alma or Anili Cloth Dolls 1929+ Italy

1930s Alma cloth girl doll in pink dress
1929-1933 Alma cloth doll in pink felt dress

Alma Cloth Dolls 1929-1933 Italy

The Alma Doll Company operated from 1929 to about 1933 in Torino, Italy. Alma’s felt child or character dolls are Lenci look a like competitors and are equally well constructed. Dolls have elastic strung limbs, molded felt head with painted facial features, gathered and folded felt applied ears, mohair wigs and came wearing wonderful costumes. Alma cloth dolls were produced for such a short time, few dolls are found in the market today.

Alma Doll Company doll mark Creation Alma Made in Italy label


Alma dolls are usually marked with a cloth label
Creation Alma MADE IN ITALY
and / or marked on the bottom of a foot Alma.

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1953 Anili Lucia cloth doll
1953 Anili Lucia cloth doll 12″ tall

Anili Doll Company Dolls 1948+ Italy


The Anili Doll Company of Italy, was founded by Anili Scavini in 1948 the daughter of Elena Scavini who founded Lenci. 

Anili made Lenci like sculpted cloth dolls and dolls made of celluloid.  Anili made some recreations of earlier Lenci dolls. Anili dolls are have a circular paper tag with a heart symbol and Anili Italy on it, they probably used other tags over the years as well, the dolls are unmarked.

Cloth Dolls From Ancient to Modern a Collector’s Guide with values book in 1997 by Linda Edward, Cloth Dolls 1920s and 1930s Identification and Price Guide book in 1990 by Polly Judd and continued research across the Internet since 1999 which we share with you.