1920 Gebruder Heubach bisque head girl with a top knot molded hair
The Heubach family bought an established porcelain factory on September 1840 in Lichte, Thüringia, Germany where they began producing porcelain figurines and other porcelain objects. By 1910 Gebrüder Heubach started making bisque character socket or shoulder head dolls, either molded hair or wigged, sleep eyes or with their famous painted intaglio eyes. One secret to Gebrüder Heubach’s success was their factory was located near an Art School of artists and sculptors.
Gebrüder Heubach doll mark registered in 1882 (S) a sunrise symbol with GH inside and in 1910 (Q) a quadrant or square with HEUBACH inside. Note: German doll maker Gustav Heubach also used the doll mark GH initials, but with different mold numbers.
Gebrüder Heubach supplied bisque doll heads to: Averill (small Bonnie Babe dolls), Emil Bauersachs (Caprice googly eye doll), Cuno & Otto Dressel, Eisenmann & Co., Hamburger & Co., Ilmenau, Jumeau ink stamped bodies have been found with Gebrüder Heubach marked bisque heads, .A. Luge & Co. (Adlon), Gebrüder Ohlhaver (Revelo), Otto Schamberger, Wagner & Zetzesche, Gottlieb Zinner, plus others around the Sonneberg area. Click images to enlarge.
1912 Gebruder Heubach doll mold 5636 laughing boy doll 14″ face
1916 Gebruder Heubach bisque head grinning cat 6 1/2″ face
1913 Gebruder Heubach doll mold 5920 all bisque boy with bee on face 12″
See the Gebruder Heubach page of doll marks and doll mold numbers.
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Heubach Reference sources: Heubach Character Dolls & Figurines book by Lydia Richter 1992, German Doll Marks book by Jurgen & Marianne Cieslik 2001 and our research across the Internet since 2004.
