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Kley & Hahn Painted Eye Boy Doll, 18" tall

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.

 

Kley & Hahn Doll Factory trademark KH walkure dollVarious 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.

 

Kley & Hahn Doll Marks Identified

Kley & Hahn doll mark K inside a keystone

Kley & Hahn doll mark K inside a keystone on the bottom of a shoe

Kley & Hahn doll mark (Kestner symbol) 31 Germany Walküre Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark Walkure Germany 56

Kley & Hahn doll mark Walküre Germany 56

Kley & Hahn doll mark The Dollar Princess 62 Spezial Made in Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark The Dollar Princess 62 Spezial Made in Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark The Dolly Princess 62 Special Made in Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark The Dolly Princess 62 Special Made in Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark Special 65

Kley & Hahn doll mark Special 65

 

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) Germany doll mold 158

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) Germany doll 158

Kley & Hahn doll mark 159 mold

Kley & Hahn doll mark 159

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) Germany doll mold 169

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) Germany 169

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) Germany doll mold 180

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) Germany 180  (googly)

Kley & Hahn doll mark 282 SH star symbol KH 2 1/2 Germany head by Schoenau & Hoffmeister

Kley & Hahn doll mark 282 SH star symbol KH 2 1/2 Germany

head by Schoenau & Hoffmeister SH with a star

Kley & Hahn doll mark 292 K & H 1930 Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark 292 K & H 1930 Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark 525 6 Germany K & H (on a ribbon)

Kley & Hahn doll mark 525 6 Germany K & H (on a ribbon)

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) 526 8 1/2 Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) 526 8 1/2 Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) 546 5 Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) 546 5 Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) 549 2/0 Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark K & H (on a ribbon) 549 2/0 Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark (Kestner symbol) 680 36 K & H made in Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark (Kestner symbol) 680 36 K & H made in Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark Meine Einzige inside six pointed star

Kley & Hahn doll mark Meine Einzige inside six pointed star

Kley & Hahn doll mark people walking in forest SCHNEEWITTCHEN all inside circle

Kley & Hahn doll mark people walking in forest SCHNEEWITTCHEN all inside circle

Kley & Hahn doll mark Special Made in Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark Special Made in Germany

Kley & Hahn doll mark KH Walküre

Kley & Hahn doll mark KH Walküre

Note: the spelling Spezial is for the German doll market, Special is for the American doll market

 

 

Kley & Hahn Doll Mold Numbers Identified

62, 65, 70, 133, 135, 138, 154, 158, 159 multi-face, 160, 161, 162, 165, 166, 167, 169, 176, 178, 180, 250, 282, 292, 458, 520, 525, 526, 531, 536, 546, 548, 549, 554, 567, 568, 571, 654, 680

 Kley & Hahn Baby doll molds 158, 161, 167, 525, 680

doll molds 178 and 180 are both googly eyed dolls

 

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