Jules Nicholas Steiner Dolls 1855-1908 French
1893 Jules Nicholas Steiner bebe doll open mouth with two rows of teeth 20″ tall
Jules Nicholas Steiner (born March 1832 – died February 1902), began his early career as a horloger mechanicale = a clock maker in Paris, France. Steiner was issued his first patent of many in 1855 for a mechanical doll and in 1858 for a mechanical toy. By 1864 Steiner was advertising himself as a fabrique spéciale de poupées et bébés parlants, mécaniques et articules = a specialized Doll maker and Toy maker.
Early Jules Steiner dolls are 1863-1890s Bébé Parlant Automatique or an antique mechanical or automata doll, a talking Baby doll with wax over papier mâché heads and a bisque and fabric body. Later dolls have bisque heads with fabric and composition bodies, then all composition jointed bodies. Jules Nicholas Steiner made both white or black dolls, the latter are fewer and the Chinese bisque head, oh so rare.
1863 Steiner Waltzing Poupée lady dolls with a bisque shoulder head on a cardboard base body. 1880-1890s Steiner Bébé Incassables (unbreakable doll), Bébé Premier Pas walking and talking dolls, Series dolls and Figure dolls, La Patricienne, plus many innovations and improvements over the years were made to dolls by Steiner and his many successors. Jules Nicholas Steiner’s company was also known as Société Steiner in 1882.
Jules Nicholas Steiner Antique Dolls Identified
1865+ Jules Nicholas Steiner Bébé Parlant Automatique doll 18″ tall, bisque solid dome unmarked shoulder head with a round face, fixed glass eyes, painted feathered brows, delicate painted upper and lower eye lashes, closed mouth, bisque hip body, bisque upper arms, lower arms, hips and lower legs, fabric mid arms, abdomen and knees. Also called a Motschmann or Täuflinge type body.
ca. 1882 Jules Nicholas Steiner Bébé Parlant Automatique doll face, (automatic talking baby doll) 23″ tall, Bébé Gigoteur is a kicking and crying mechanical doll, with a solid dome bisque unmarked socket head, feathered eyebrows, painted upper and lower eyelashes, fixed glass eyes, open mouth with upper and lower rows of teeth, Tauflinge body type made of composition upper arms, lower legs, composition covered with fabric torso and fabric upper legs, blue ink stamp in a square box on body doll mark Aux Tuileries, Maison (Charles) Bail, Jouets, 210 Rue de Rivoli
1890s Jules Nicholas Steiner, Figure A doll face Le Parisien 17 1/2″, bisque socket head, sleep eyes, closed mouth, pierced ears, composition jointed body, doll mark 11, PARIS, Le Parisien.
1890s Jules Nicholas Steiner, Figure A Bébé Le Parisien doll, 14″ tall bisque socket head, sleep eyes, open mouth with teeth, composition jointed body, Jules N. Steiner Figure A Bébé doll doll mark PARIS, A 7 – 8, red ink body mark: LE PARISIEN.
1889+ Jules Nicholas Steiner Figure A Bébé doll face, 21″ tall, bisque swivel socket head, feathered eye brows, painted upper and lower eye lashes, fixed blue paperweight eyes, closed mouth with outlined lips, composition body jointed at the shoulders, elbows, hips and knees with straight wrists and banana fingers, doll mark J STEINER, Bte S G D G, PARIS, FIre A 13, body label with a flag Le Petit Parisien Médaille D’ or Paris 1889.
1890s Jules Nicholas Steiner Figure C doll 15″ tall bisque socket head, sleep eyes, closed mouth, pierced ears, all composition jointed body, doll mark Figure C, Steiner (rest is unreadable).
1890s Jules Nicholas Steiner Figure C doll 33″ tall bisque socket head, sleep eyes, closed mouth, pierced ears, composition jointed body, doll mark FIGURE C 7, STEINER.
1895 Jules Nicholas Steiner Bebe Phenix doll 11″ tall, bisque socket head, fixed eyes, closed mouth, composition jointed body, Bébé Phénix doll mark star 83.
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Jules Nicholas Steiner Series incised Bisque Head Doll Marks
SIE A · #, SIE B · #, SIE C · #, SIE E · #, SIE F · #, SIE G · #.
Jules Nicholas Steiner FIGURE A Doll Marks
A 3/0, J STEINER B. S.G.D.G., J BOURGOIN SUCCr
FIGURE A No 5, J STEINER BTE S.G.D.G., PARIS
J STEINER, BTE S.G.D.G., PARIS, FRE A 9
STEINER, PARIS, A – 11
A 2.3 PARIS
A 7, LE PARISIEN, BTE SGDG, A 7
A. 9. 10, LE PARISIEN
A . 15, NAIN BLEU
Jules Nicholas Steiner FIGURE B Doll Marks
B I, J STEINER B. S.G.D.G., J BOURGOIN SUCCr
FIGURE B No 1, J STEINER BTE SGDG, PARIS
J STEINER, BTE SGDG, PARIS, FIRE B 20
Jules Nicholas Steiner FIGURE C, D, E Doll Marks
FIGURE C No 3/0, STEINER BTE SGDG, PARIS
STEINER, PARIS, FRE C 4/0
STEINER, PARIS, FRE C 15
STEINER, PARIS, FRE D · 15
J. STEINER, BTE. S.G.D.G, PARIS, FRE E 3
Jules Nicholas Steiner / J Bourgoin Early Doll Body Ink Stamp Marks / Label
J STEINER B S.G.D.G., J BOURGOIN SUCCr
STEINER B S.G.D.G., BOURGOIN SUCCr, PARIS
J Steiner Bte S.g.d.g. J. Bourgoin
J Caduceus symbol ST, Caduceus = a symbol of a winged staff with two intertwined snakes ink body stamp
Jules Nicholas Steiner History of Dates of Lessees or Successors
1880-1890 J. Bourgoin
– 1889 Le Petit Parisien Bébé J. Steiner Medaille D’ Or Paris
1891-1893 Amédée Onésime La Fosse
– 1892+ La Parisien Bébé dolls
1893-1899 Marie La Fosse, widow of Amédée
– 1895 Steiner acquired the Tourell Company
– 1895 Steiner acquired Henri Alexandre and their Bébé Phenix doll
1899-1903 Jules Mettais
– 1899 acquired May Frères – Bébé Mascotte
– 1899 Phenix Baby, Bébé Liege
– 1900 Bébé Merveilleuse
– 1901 Bébé Modéle (Henri Alexandre)
1905-1908 Edmond Daspres
– 1905 La Patricienne Déposé doll body mark
Note: Henri Georges Gustave Alexandre was an inventor and doll maker of the Bébé Phenix doll.
1889-1892 H. Alexandre merged with the Tourrel Company, in 1895 they merged with the Jules Nicholas Steiner company.
Jules N. Steiner also supplied bisque heads to Maison Francois Simonne for fashion lady dolls and bébés.
Jules Nicholas Steiner Doll Abbreviations
B BTE – registered
FE FIRE FRE FIGURE = face
SIE = series
STE = Steiner
SUCCr = successor
S.G.D.G. = registered without government guarantee