Antique Bisque Doll Makers

Jumeau bisque head doll
Antique Jumeau bisque head doll


Bisque head dolls were introduced in the 1850s by Europeans primarily in France and Germany, much later a few bisque head dolls were made in USA America and during World War 1 in Japan.

From the 1860s to 1870s most bisque or China head dolls were found on Lady dolls, children were usually represented as all bisque dolls. In 1878 Emile Jumeau introduced his Bébés Incassable – bisque head child dolls on composition bodies, which were hugely successful, afterwards the rest of the doll industry followed to produce similar child dolls through to the early 1950s.

How to tell if a bisque socket head is pressed or poured?

antique bisque doll head pressed with no lip rim
Antique bisque doll head PRESSED with NO lip rim inside head

(<– left image) Earliest labor intensive Pressed doll heads do Not have a lip rim inside the head.

(right image —>) Later Poured bisque socket doll heads Have a lip rim inside the head.

antique bisque doll head poured with a lip rim
Antique bisque doll head POURED with a lip rim inside head

Most prolific antique doll makers French Jumeau, SFBJ
German Gebruder Heubach, Kestner, Marseille, Kammer & Reinhardt, Simon & Halbig

Antique dolls all
All Bisque dolls
Black dolls
Googly Eye dolls
Kewpie dolls
Oriental dolls

Antique American doll makers
Louis Amberg LA&S dolls
Arranbee R&B dolls
Averill, Hendren, Georgene
George Borgfeldt GB dolls
Butler Brothers dolls
Century Doll Co dolls
Effanbee F&B dolls
Fulper Pottery dolls
Hamburger H&co dolls
Horsman EIH dolls
K & K Toy Co dolls
Nancy Ann Storybook
Jeanne I Orsini JIO dolls
Ernst Reinhardt ER dolls
Sears Happi-Time dolls
Strobel & Wilken SWC dolls
Vogue dolls
Walda antiqued dolls

Antique Austrian doll makers
Aich, Menzel A&M dolls
Carl Knoll Porz. CK dolls

Antique Belgium doll makers
Louis Bonvoisin LHB dolls
DeFuisseaux DFB dolls
Ernest Villain EVF dolls

Antique English doll makers
British doll British Made
Charles Turnbull CET dolls

Antique French or German
Antique Fashion Lady dolls
Automata, Mechanical dolls
Belton type dolls
China head dolls
DEP bebes dolls
Fleischmann & Bloedel F&B dolls

Antique French doll makers
Henri Alexandre bebes HA
Eugene Barrois EB dolls
Claude Blampoix BS dolls
Bru Jne et Cie bebes


Danel et Cie BF bebes
Etienne Denamur ED bebes
French mystery doll marks
Francois Gaultier FG bebes
Halopeau H mold bebes
Jumeau bebes dolls
– Jumeau marks & molds
Lanternier et Cie AL&C bebes
Mothereau bebes
Pintel, Godchaux PG bebes
Louis Léon Prieur LP bebes
Rabery, Delphieu RD bebes
Leontine Rohmer fashion dolls
Henri Rostal Tresor bebes
Roullet & Decamps R&D dolls
Schmitt et Fils Sch bebes
SFBJ bebes dolls
Jules N. Steiner Sie bebes
Andre Thuillier AT bebes
UNIS bebes dolls
Jules Verlingue bebes dolls

Antique German doll makers
German mystery doll marks
Alt, Beck & Gottschalck ABG dolls
Max O. Arnold MOA dolls
Bahr & Pröschild BP dolls
Fritz Bartenstein FB dolls+
CM Bergmann CMB dolls
Carl Bergner CB dolls
Fritz Bierschenk FB dolls
Bing Concentra dolls
Burggrub Porz. SHPB dolls
Robert Carl RC dolls
Catterfelder Pup. CP dolls
Wilhelm Dehler WD dolls
Cuno, Otto Dressel COD dolls
Edelmann Melitta dolls
Christian Eichhorn CE&S dolls
Eisenmann Einco dolls
Erste Steinbacher Porz. EStPs dolls
E. Escher Jr. dolls
Otto Gans OG dolls
Gans & Seyfarth G&S dolls
William Goebel WG dolls
Heinrich Handwerck HcHH dolls
Max Handwerck dolls
Carl Harmus dolls
Karl Hartmann HK dolls
Hertel, Schwab & Co dolls
Hertwig & Co dolls
Ernst Heubach EH dolls
Gebruder Heubach GH dolls
– G, Heubach marks & molds


Gustav Heubach GH dolls
Carl Horn CHND dolls
Kämmer & Reinhardt K*R dolls
– K & R marks & molds
Ker. Gräfenhain KWG dolls
Kestner JDK dolls
– Kestner marks & molds
Kiesewetter dolls
Kley & Hahn K&H dolls
Kling dolls K dolls
Gebrüder Knoch GKN dolls
Moses Kohnstam dolls
Konig, Wernicke K&W dolls
Geb. Kuhnlenz GbrK dolls
Limbach Porz. dolls
Armand Marseille AM dolls
– A. Marseille marks & molds
Mengersgereuth Porz. PM dolls
Niko. Oberender NO dolls
Geb. Ohlhaver Revelo dolls
Max Räder Rdep dolls
Rauenstein Porz. RA dolls
Theodor Recknagel RA dolls
Peter Scherf PSch dolls
Bruno Schmidt BS dolls
Franz Schmidt FSC dolls
Paul Schmidt PS dolls
Arthur Schoenau AS dolls
Schoenau, Hoffmeister SHPB dolls
Schutzmeister, Quendt SQ dolls
Seyfarth, Reinhardt SUR dolls
Simon & Halbig SH dolls
– S & H marks & molds
Sonneberger Porz. SP dolls
Erste Steinbacher Porz. EStPs dolls
Edmund U. Steiner EuSt dolls
Hermann Steiner HS dolls
Swaine & Co S&C dolls
Walther & Sohn W&S dolls
Wagner, Zetzsche WZ dolls
Welsch & Co. Welsch dolls
Wiefel & Co. W&Co dolls
Hugo Wiegand HWN dolls
Adolf Wislizenus AW dolls
Louis Wolf LW&S dolls

Antique Italian doll makers
Luigi Furga dolls

Antique Japan doll makers
Morimura Bro. MB dolls
Yamato Import FY dolls

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The Collector’s Encyclopedia of Dolls, vol. I in 1968, vol. II in 1986 by Dorothy S., Elizabeth A. and Evelyn J. Coleman.
German Doll Encyclopedia 1800-1939 in 1984 by Jurgen & Marianne Cieslik.
Blue Book of Dolls and Values, Editions 1-16 in 1974-2003 by Jan Foulke.