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K and K Toy Company - Doll mold 32, 15 1/2"
tall, bisque shoulder head doll, with
composition lower arms, cloth body and legs, sleep eyes, multi-stroke
painted eyebrows, painted upper and lower eyelashes, open mouth with two
upper teeth and tongue.
Doll mark 38, K & K,
45 cm., Made in
Germany.
Another known K and K doll mark is the initials
K . KX,
usually found on composition doll heads. |
The K and K Toy Company, Inc. was founded in
New York City in 1915 as an importer of mostly German bisque head dolls and as the
company name indicates, probably toys too.
Some antique K & K made dolls are
notably; Flossie Fisher's Own Doll, Kewpie dolls, Hollikids, Happifats,
Bye-Lo Baby Rose Marie dolls and others, as well as supplying composition doll bodies
often marked bisquette or fiberoid and cloth or kid bodies to
other doll makers.
K & K Toy products were distributed by
George Borgfeldt and
Butler Brothers. A 1924
advertisement states that the company name K & K stands for Kept Klean.
In
1925 the Cameo Doll company took over the K and K
Toy company products.
K & K Toy Company
dolls with antique ABG bisque heads markings:
doll mold number, K & K, size number (in centimeters) Made in Germany
or doll mold number, Germany,
K & K, size number, Thuringia
doll mold numbers; 23 32 38 42
43
50 58 178
doll size numbers; -- 39 45
56 58 60 -- --
the bottom doll size number is in centimeters. |
