Carl Harmus Doll Company 1887+ German

Carl Harmus Jr. founded has doll company in 1887 in the city of Sonneberg, Germany as a doll maker and exporter of dressed dolls. In 1896 Mr. Harmus passed away and the new owner became George Neugebauer, who continued using the Harmus name.

Bahr & Pröschild supplied some of Harmus bisque doll heads, the 313 mold and after ca. 1900 the BP & O with swords and Harmus mark.

1907 made a dressed Topsy-Turvy doll with a voice box or combined with an animal figure plus others.
In 1909 Harmus registered the bear with a doll inside a triangle trade mark, as they also produced stuffed animals. Mr. Viktor Sachsenweger, who joined the firm in 1907, became the new owner in 1919. Bisque doll heads now came from Porzellanfabrik Mengersgereuth (PM), Robert Carl (Trebor) or Gebrüder Ohlhaver (Revelo), as the Harmus name is found along with each companies mark. Some time in the 1930s the business is believed to have ceased an exact date is unknown.