Louis Amberg Dolls 1916+ USA
1916 Louis Amberg Skookum, The Bully Kiddo Indian doll
The Louis Amberg company was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1878 and later moved to New York City around 1893. At some point Amberg opened a branch office in Sonneberg, Germany. Amberg’s various partners or business names were; 1881-1890 Fecheimer & Amberg, 1890-1894 Louis Amberg & Company, 1894-1907 Louis Amberg, Brill & Company,1907-1910 Hahn & Amberg, 1911-1930 Louis Amberg & Son.
By the late 1920s the Amberg company was advertising over 600 doll style numbers, including some imports. Amberg dolls are often marked L A & S or L A & S NY plus the year first produced. In the 1920s Amberg was one of 50 members in the Doll & Stuffed Toy Manufacturers Association. In 1930 the Amberg company was sold to Horsman.
Antique Louis Amberg Dolls Identified 1916+
1916 Louis Amberg Skookum, The Bully Kiddo Indian doll 15″ tall, made several sizes, composition head and hands, cloth body, felt clothing, produced by Amberg for the Northwestern Fruit Exchange, Skookum Apple Packers of Wanatchee, Washington, doll is rare and unmarked.
1917-1920 Louis Amberg Victory doll 16-24″ tall, composition socket head, ball jointed composition body, wigged, sleep eyes, open mouth with teeth, most dolls have a marking on the back of Amberg Victory Doll and some are unmarked.
1918 Louis Amberg AMKID doll 17, 20, 24, 28″ tall, composition shoulder head and partial lower arms, oilcloth stuffed jointed body, celluloid sleep eyes or painted eyes (17 and 20″), open mouth with two upper teeth, mohair wig. Doll head is unmarked. Body has a paper label that reads; AMBERG DOLLS, The World Standard, Made in U.S.A. AMKID, TRADEMARK REG., Cork Stuffed, Washable Sanitary.
1919 Louis Amberg Walking doll 19 – 28 1/2″ tall, “doll walks by guiding its arm”, flange composition head on the smaller doll, composition shoulder head on the larger size, full composition arms, painted molded hair &/or human hair or mohair wig, painted eyes or tin sleep eyes, open mouth with two upper teeth, ball jointed legs attached to dolls bottom, cloth stuffed body, came dressed in a cotton voile dress with matching bonnet both trimmed with lace, underwear, stockings and shoes, dolls maybe unmarked or marked L. A. & S. 1919, T & N June 1919, patented June 11, 1918 No. 1269056.
ca. 1921+ Amberg All Bisque Character dolls 4-7′ tall, made by a German manufacturer of pre-tinted pink bisque; Bisque Girl, Amberg Mibs doll with molded flowers in hair, see below for more information on the Mibs doll.
1920-1927 Amberg Victory doll with a Fulper Pottery bisque marked head. Fulper Pottery supplied bisque heads for other Amberg child and baby dolls during the World War I era 1920-1922, Horsman too.
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1921 Amberg Freshie Happifat Baby doll 8 1/2″ tall a novelty doll with composition head and arms, cloth body and legs with attached shoes, jointed at the shoulders and hips, dressed in a two piece striped cotton shirt and pants, doll is unmarked and rare. Doll designed by Kate Jordan.
1921-1922 Amberg Nature Children dolls 21″ tall (plus three other sizes), doll shown has a composition head and lower arms, painted eyes, cloth stuffed body, upper arms and legs. Sixteen different styles; crying, sitting, talking and walking, dolls maybe marked L A & S + a year or unmarked.
1921 Amberg Mibs doll 16″ tall composition shoulder head on a cloth body, composition arms above elbow, composition hip pin legs with molded painted or unpainted shoes. Has molded painted hair with a prominent single center bang that is slightly curled, blue painted eyes, painted upper lashes, closed mouth, doll is unmarked.
Mibs is a Phyllis May doll (Hazel’s daughter) created by Hazel Drukker (Mrs. George Silberman), based on her column in the Evening Mail a New York daily newspaper and also based on the book titled: Phyllis May and Her Dollies published in 1920.
Louis Amberg dolls 1878+ | 1916+ | 1923+
Louis Amberg Doll Mold Numbers Identified
1, 2, 4, 12, 40, 41, 42, 43, 43/1, 107, 108, 110, 241, 247, 387, 414, 494, 574, 618, 784, 886.2, 972, 973, 982, 983, 44520, 1269056.
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1918 Louis Amberg Happinus doll 11″ tall, all composition head and body with joints at shoulders and hips, similar to Gebrüder Heubach’s bisque Coquette type head mold with painted, bobbed wavy hair and an indentation for a hair ribbon, painted eyes, closed mouth, doll is unmarked.