Bing Brothers Antique Dolls 1882+, Louis Wolf 1870+ Dolls German
ca. 1925+ Bing Art cloth Dutch pair boy and girl dolls 9 1/2″ tall
Bing Brothers Art Dolls 1882-1932 German
The Bing Brothers Art Doll Company was founded by brothers Ignaz and Adolf Bing, was also called Bing Werke and reorganized as a holding company in 1917 called Continental Supplies Center Concentra AG, the largest toy maker in the world at that time. During World War I (1914-1918) Bing was the only toy factory that did not close in Nuremberg, Germany.
Bing is best known for their felt art dolls (Bing Kunstlerpuppen und stoff Spielwaren Gesellschaft), which competed with Käthe Kruse and Lenci dolls. Bing used the trademark of Bing Beauty Art Dolls or Bing Beauty Baby, plus others.
1921-1932 Bing Cloth Art Dolls, general characteristics; sizes 5 3/4 to 17 1/2″ tall, molded cloth mask face with painted hair or mohair wigs, hand painted facial features and after 1925 some dolls have sleep eyes, a closed mouth, cloth stuffed body of unbleached or flesh colored cotton, jointed at the neck, shoulder and hips, dolls were dressed in German type children clothing, dolls are unmarked, sole of shoes marked Bing or Mohl Hauser Wien have been found.
By 1928 the Bing Brothers Art Doll company had become a large corporation that included thirty-one subsidiaries with 4,000 employees which sold bisque head character dolls by Hertel, Schwab & Co and bisque head Schutzmeister & Quendt dolls. Also, brightly colored rubber dolls of a cowboy, Dutch boy and girl, fisherman, native American Indian and sailor. John Bing Company of New York City 1910-1925, held the American and Canadian rights for the Bing Art Dolls. In 1928 Max Bing took over the operation, shortly thereafter Bing merged with Louis Wolf to became the Bing-Wolf Corporation. In 1932 the Bing-Wolf conglomerate filed for bankruptcy.
Some antique Bing Doll Trade Names are; 1912 Sunshine Kid and Sunshine Girl dolls, 1915 Baby Darling, 1913 Baby Irene (Louis Wolf), 1922 Pitti-Bum, 1925 Baby Sister, Happiness Candy Store Dolls; 1925 Toddling Toodles doll or Baby Sunshine doll, 1926 Baby Patsy doll, 1927 Beauty Baby cloth dolls.
Bing Brothers Doll Marks Identified
Bing Brothers doll mark WW symbol
Bing Brothers doll mark Bing’s Beauty Art Doll, Bing Beauty Baby
Bing Brothers doll mark Bing face symbol
Bing Brothers doll mark Concentra in triangle
Bing Brothers doll shoe mark Mohl Hauser Wien
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1914 Louis Wolf doll mold 222 Our Fairy doll, googly eyes, closed smiling watermelon mouth, all bisque 11″ tall, wigged, jointed at the neck and shoulders, figurine.
Louis Wolf Dolls Dolls 1870-1932 German
The Louis Wolf Company operated four factories in Sonneberg, Thüringia, Nürnberg, Bavaria and were also located in Boston, Massachusetts and New York City as importers, distributors and assembled dolls.
Many of Wolf’s bisque doll heads were made by Armand Marseille and others according to their particular brand. In 1928 Bing Brothers merged with Louis Wolf to form the Bing-Wolf Corporation, which in 1932 filed for bankruptcy.
Louis Wolf Registered Doll Names, Advertisements and Dates
1892 Wolf registered the trade name Cinderella a CM Bergmann doll, 1905 Advertised celluloid and Minerva metal head dolls, 1906 Featherweight kid body dolls, American rag dolls, Knockabout dolls, 1907 Columbia (also sold by CM Bergmann heads for both by Marseille), Young America, kid body Surperba (by Ernst Heubach), composition Mangolin dolls.
1910 Queen Louise doll (Marseille), Schilling, E.U. Steiner’s walking & sitting dolls, 1911 My Companion and Excelsior dolls (probably Kestner), 1914 Our Fairy mold 222 googly doll, Majestic dolls, Baby Belle, Chubby all bisque boy in a Union suit designed by Thomas E. Stutson.
1915 added a Japanese department, 1916 Baby doll mold 152 by Hertel, Schwab marked L W & Co, Perfection dolls, Utley’s Rollinson dolls.
1918 The Wolf American offices refused shipment of dolls made in Germany even though they had paid for them in 1914. 1919 Wolf was the agent for Giebeler-Falk metal head dolls, advertised Kutie Kid and Mama dolls. 1925 Baby Sunshine, Pretty Peggy dolls, Happiness doll line; Toddling Toodles doll.
1926 Wolf represented 400 doll makers from; America, Austria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, England, France & Germany. Some companies Wolf represented were; Schreyer & Company (Shuco), WG Muller, Seyfarth & Reinhardt, Strasser, American Stuffed Novelty Company cloth and Lindstrom mechanical dolls. Wolf sold Mama and Character dolls.
1928 distributed Kammer & Reinhardt dolls, 1929 JK Farnell cloth dolls, Gertrude Rollinson cloth dolls and Kiddie Krakters dolls.
Louis Wolf Doll Marks Identified
Louis Wolf doll mark LW & C
Louis Wolf doll mark 152 L W & Co by Hertel, Schwab
Louis Wolf doll mark 2015 anchor symbol W made by Marseille
Louis Wolf doll mark Chubby L W & C Germany label
Louis Wolf doll mark CUTIE Wcol (initials) NIPPON triangle red label
Louis Wolf doll mark Our Fairy Germany doll mold 222 label
Louis Wolf doll mark American Beauty Germany red label by Marseille
Louis Wolf doll mark SWEETIE Wcol (initials) NIPPON triangle label
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Louis Wolf Doll Mold Numbers Identified
40, 152, 200, 222, 265, 2015