Kley & Hahn Dolls 1895-1931 Germany

Kley & Hahn Painted Eye Boy Doll mold 526, 18" tall

Bisque socket head, composition jointed body, brown painted eyes (also with blue painted eyes), feathered brows, closed mouth, doll mark K & H on ribbon 526 Germany (see image below).

The Kley & Hahn Doll Factory (trademark shown below) was founded in Ohrdruf, Thüringia, Germany in 1895 by Albert Kley and Paul Hahn as a porcelain factory making bisque doll heads and bathing beauty dolls.  From 1902 to 1931 they made many types of dolls, including celluloid dolls.

Various other porcelain factories supplied their bisque doll heads; Hertel, Schwab  & Company made the 100 series doll molds, Kestner made the 200 & 600 series and Walkure doll molds, Schoenau & Hoffmeister made doll mold 282 (possibly others) and Bahr & Pröschild contributed the 500 series doll molds. 

Some of the trade names registered to Kley & Hahn are; The Dollar Princess, (The Dolly Princess), Special, Durabel, K., Majestic, Mein Einzige Baby (My Only Baby), Mein Einziges (My Only One), Princess, Schneewittchen (Snow White) and Walkure.  Kley & Hahn often used the initials K & H in their doll marking.

Kley & Hahn made named Dolly Face, Walküre, Character Babies and Child dolls with composition jointed bodies, all of very good quality, 1913+ Cellunova composition heads and bodies and portrait dolls of Senegalaise or Senegalese prisoners in 1915.