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Franz
Schmidt doll mold 1272, is 17" tall, bisque socket head,
feathered eyebrows, brown flirty glass sleep eyes, open mouth with teeth, composition
jointed body.
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Franz Schmidt founded his doll company in
Georgenthal, Thuringia, Germany in 1890, also known as Puppenfabrik
Georgenthal. Simon & Halbig supplied the bisque heads,
designed specifically for Franz Schmidt's dolls. Schmidt was very innovative in the doll industry providing many
improvements such as; improved wood joints, pierced nostrils (called
breathers), movable tongue or flutter tongue, eye bar and doll voice boxes.
Franz Schmidt made dolls sized 6 to 42" tall, Dolly face, Character Baby and Character
Dolls with bisque heads, glass or painted eyes, kid or composition body, all of whom are very
high quality. Sometimes a z is found in Schmidt's doll marking, this is
believed to stand for zentimeter, German for centimeter.
Franz Schmidt registered doll trade names are: 1909
Cellulobrin, 1910 Tausendschöchen = Daisy and 1913 Little
Boy Blue a baby doll. |
