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Hertel, Schwab
bisque head googly eye Jubilee doll mold 173 made ca. 1914 for Strobel Wilken |
The
Hertel, Schwab & Company,
also know as the
Stutzhauser Porzellanfabrik, was founded in 1910 at Stutzhaus, Germany which
is near Ohrdruf, by August Hertel,
Heinrich Schwab, Friedrich Muller, all doll designers and sculptors and a minor partner Hugo Rosenbush who was
a porcelain painter.
Hertel, Schwab made bisque head Character Baby, Character Child, Dolly face,
Googly dolls, bathing dolls, tea-cozy shoulder heads and pin-cushion dolls, all of which are of very good quality.
Hertel, Schwab was still mentioned in 1930 as producing bisque dolls.
Although the exact date is unknown to us, operations probably ceased
sometime in the 1930s. |
Some Hertel, Schwab dolls were made exclusively for the
American market; the Bye-Lo Baby for
George Borgfeldt, Our
Baby doll mold 152, the Our Fairy doll mold 222 both for
Louis Wolf & Co.
Hertel, Schwab also produced bisque heads for other
German doll firms; Kley & Hahn,
Konig & Wernicke doll molds 98, 99, 133,
135, 138, 158, 160, 161, 162, 166, 167, 169, 180), Albert Schachne doll
mold 148, Strobel & Wilken the
googly eye Jubilee doll molds 163, 165, 172, 173, Rudolf Walch doll mold 142, Wiesenthal, Schindel & Kallenberg doll mold 150
and possibly other doll makers.
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Hertel, Schwab
Doll Marks Identified

Hertel, Schwab
doll marks Made in Germany 136, 150, 151
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Hertel, Schwab
doll mark 165 |
Hertel, Schwab doll marks LWC, L. W. & C., L W. & Co. are for
Louis Wolf & Company |
Note: Hertel, Schwab
numbers after the doll mold or series number are size numbers.
Hertel, Schwab Doll Mold Numbers Identified
98, 99, 111, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134,
135, 136, 138, 140, 141, 142, 143, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151,
151-2046, 152,
154, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170,
172, 173, 175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 200, 208, 217, 220, 222 |
Hertel, Schwab doll mold 127 is a bisque head Patsy doll with an
open mouth,
doll mold 147 has googly eyes, doll mold 159 is a multi two faced doll
Doll molds 163, 164, 165, 172, 173 are Jubilee dolls with
googly eyes for Strobel & Wilken (SWC)
Hertel, Schwab doll mold 165 also came as a black googly eye doll
Hertel, Schwab doll mold 175 is a Winker with closed laughing mouth,
178, 180 are both googly eye dolls
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