Antique Wood Dolls, Wooden Doll Makers 1300+

1700-1750 Queen Anne Wooden doll head

Wood is a fairly easy material to carve or whittle to form a crude doll in the form of a human likeness. 

Wood is very durable, easily manipulated and is still in use today for making wooden dolls or figures and toys of many kinds for children, in many countries around the world, either commercially, by artists or even a home worker.

Below are lists of early wood doll types and known wood doll makers from around the world.

Antique Wood or Wooden Types of Dolls

 

1400+ French, Italy, Spain and others; Religious dolls or religious figures; Crèche dolls, Santos dolls   1680-1720 English William and Mary, 1700-1750 Queen Anne or 1750-1800 Georgian wooden dolls   1700s-1930 German Federdocken, Feather dolls, turned wooden doll with painted features, a feather in hat, have pebbles in torso that rattle   1700s+ Austria or German Grödner Tal carved wood dolls   1735-1925+ German Skittle or Tyroler wood dolls   1750+ French or English Pandora early wood or wax fashion mannequin doll, Grandes Pandora's is a life size mannequin doll   1800s-1900s South East Europe Gmunderdoken wooden dolls representing the people of the Gmunden area   1800s-1900s German Schepperdocken hollow wooden dolls with stones inside that rattle   1850+ American Hopi Kachina wood dolls made of cottonwood root, then carved, painted and decorated figures   1890+ Russian Matryoshka wooden nesting dolls made and painted by various craft persons, artists   ca. 1890s Austria & Hungry Wooden Kate dolls wooden folk art dolls   1896-1914 German Bébé Tout Bois all wood dolls, often made for the French market   1900s+ German Carved Tuck Comb wood dolls, Peg Wooden doll or Dutch Wooden doll    1916-1918 French Madame Nina Alexandrowicz made cloth art dolls, Mimi a wood art doll, black mascot dolls   1919+ Wood Segmented dolls, various countries and doll makers   1920s American Zuni wood dolls are usually made from Pine wood   Before 1917 and after until about 1991 Russian Trihedral one piece three sided wood carved dolls

Antique to Vintage Wooden Doll Makers

 

Anderegg dolls early 1900s, doll mark Th. Anderegg, Montreux, Switzerland Ferdinand Andri wooden peasant dolls 1871-1956 Austria Artel Company wooden dolls with painted clothes 1900s Prague     Beaver Doll & Toy Co wood dolls 1916-1917 NYC, Canada, London - doll mark Beaverbilt, Beaverbeasts, Beaverability Mimi Berg, Norgesdukker carved wood dolls 1940s Norway Bimblick Toy Co. wood segmented dolls 1926-1930 NYC   Cameo dolls wood segmented 1922-1970s US Crown Toy Mfg wood segmented Disney dolls 1930s-1940s US Curry & Co wood block jointed dolls 1912-1913 UK   Door of Hope dolls 1901-1949 Shanghai and Canton, China  Julius Dorst wooden dolls & toys 1839-1930s    - doll mark HD, clown symbol star D   Joel Ellis Co-Operative Mfg. Co 1858-1925+ (unmarked)     - 1873-74 mortise & tendon wood dolls, painted black feet Erzgebirge wood figure dolls 1920s Exeloid Company wood dolls 1915-1920+ Pennsylvania, PA Fehrle carved wooden head doll mark, dates unknown, ?? Fleischmann & Cramer wood dolls 1881-1925+   A. W. Gamages sold Bébé Tout en Bois dolls, Dutch Peg     Wooden dolls, Schoenhut basswood dolls   Hitz, Jacobs & Kassler turned, carved painted wood dolls 1923 Kaspar Huggler & Sons wood caved dolls 1900-present     - in Brienz, Switzerland (off site official link)   Insam & Prinoth dolls 1820+ Tirol & Germany   - wooden dolls, peg wooden dolls verlegers 1820+ Tirol Jointed Doll Co. wood dolls 1874-1885 No. Springfield, VT US                       marked with black band around waist label Improved Jointed Doll pat. April 29, '79, Dec. 7, '80, Nov. 7, '82.   Kestner wood dolls 1805+ Adolph Kröhl made dolls in many materials 1830-1898 Labrador - wooden dolls hand made in N. American Arctic Larkin Co 1875-1930 US made wood and other kinds of dolls Erben G. Lange wooden dolls 1853+

Richard Metzler 1884-1928 musical, papier mache, wood dolls Moroder wooden doll verlegers 1800s-1896 AT Leo Morse turned wood dolls 1920-1923 US Andreas Müller 1894+ made wooden dolls     Harold Naber Kids carved wood art dolls 1970s-1994 US Netherlands 1800+ Grödner Tal wood dolls, Nürnberg Fille dolls, Peg Wooden dolls, Penny Wooden dolls Nöckler & Tittel 1849-1930s bisque, cloth, composition, googly eye dolls, rubber, Täufling, wood dolls   Obletter wooden doll verlegers 1825-1859   Frank W. Peterson painted wood dolls 1907-1939 US Petri-Lewis Co wood character dolls 1923-1929 US L. Pfeuffer wooden dolls 1909-1908 Nurnberg, Bavaria Minka Podhajaska turned wood jointed dolls 1903-1910 Poppets wood dolls mid 1800s-1930 Kentucky, USA J. B. Purger wood peg jointed dolls 1851-1896 Grödner Tal   E. Randall Grödner Tal wood dolls 1904-1958 UK C. G. Richter wooden dolls 1816-1914 Saxony Adam Rockendorfer wooden dolls 1809-1914 AT Sanoner, Senoner, Sononer Grödner Tal wooden dolls 1800+ F.M. Schilling 1871-1928, doll mark Angel with wings paper label; Tout Bois, Holz, Germany allwood, angel symbol, Fabrikmarke deponirt or unmarked   Gustav Schmey dolls 1853-1930 Rudolf Schneider dolls 1912-1925+ made Bébé Tout en Bois dolls marked with a label; trademark Bébé Tout en bois entierement articule (Baby doll articulated wood), French market.   Schoen & Yondorf, SAYCO 1922-1960s made wood dolls + Schoenhut & Co basswood dolls 1872-1935 Philadelphia, PA   Prof. Victor Schufinsky turned wood dolls 1909-1910 AT Silber & Fleming woolyhead wood dolls, wood dolls 1872-1882 D. M. Smith & Co wooden dolls 1852-1885, blue painted feet Johann Stadler wooden dolls 1809-1916 AT Star Toy & Novelty composition & wooden dolls 1914-21 US Swiss Linden wood dolls 1900s+ Brienz area   Ted Toy-lers wooden dolls & toys 1924-1928 Telli Company wood head & cloth body doll, unknown Telma Mfg. ceramic, composition, wood dolls 1917-1918 UK Thomas R. Thompson Tots Toie wooden dolls 1919 US   Thorne Brothers wooden character dolls 16915-1918 UK Tillicum Toy Mfg. Co. turned wood dolls 1926-1930 US Twistum Toy factory wood segmented dolls 1921-1929 US   Von Uchatius Brettle of Brettlein wooden dolls 1900-1906 AT   Professor Wahn flat painted wooden dolls 1902-1907 Silesia Weber Company of Phila., wood carved dolls 1860s or 1870s Wilson Novelty wooden Wilson's Walkies dolls 1930s-1951 US   Zeuch & Lausmann wood dolls 1888-1925 Gottlieb Zinner & Sohn dolls 1845-1926   - world leader making musical & mechanical dolls Georg Zollner cloth dolls, wood matryoshkas 1927-1930