Name/Title
German Armand Marseille dollEntry/Object ID
1996.Y.010Description
German Armand Marseilles Doll. 390 Composition body. Head is bisque. Doll has an open mouth, teeth, blue eyes, eye lashes, eye brow and tinted cheeks. The eyes are set in but do not close. Long dark hair with ringlets at the bottoms. Jointed arms and legs. Skull cap/wig is original.
Composition body shows chest cavity, slight breasts, belly button and lower stomach protruding.
Clothing is all replacement. Popular replacement dress may have been sold through Enchanted Toy Shop in Fairveiw Park on Lorain trip.
Once owned by Miss Violet Ansorge.
Armand Marseille of Sonneberg and Koppelsdorf, Thüringia, Germany was one of the worlds largest and best known bisque doll head manufacturers. The founder was born in 1856 in St. Petersburg, Russia the son of an architect and immigrated to Germany with his family after 1860. In 1884 he bought the toy factory of Mathias Lambert in Sonneberg and in 1885 acquired the porcelain factory of Liebermann & Wegescher in Koppelsdorf . . . and his empire in the doll world began.
From 1900 to 1930 it's reported Marseille produced 1,000 bisque doll heads a day, they made bisque head baby, children, lady and character dolls, on cloth, kid or composition bodies, most with glass eyes, some with painted eyes, with the most commonly found doll molds of 370 (shoulder head on a cloth or kid body) and 390 (socket head on a composition body). Marseille interestingly did not produce the body of their dolls, but purchased those from other doll manufactures.
In 1919 Ernst Heubach and Marseilles merged and formed the United Porcelain Factory of Koppelsdorf (Vereinigte Koppelsdorf Porzellanfabrik vorm Armand Marseille and Ernst Heubach). By 1932 the two companies went their separate ways. Later son Herman Marseille also made doll heads of composition.
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1996.Y.009, 1996.Y.011
