The Story of German Doll Making, 1530-2000

by Krombholz, Mary Gorham; Musser, Cynthia Erfurt

• ISBN13: 9780875886022
• ISBN10: 0875886027
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Hobby House Pr Inc

Summary

Brimming with more than 350 color photos of dolls made of china, bisque, wood, and other materials, this reference book explains the tradition of 470 years of doll making in Germany, and documents many antique dolls never before identified.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(1)
Doll Making in Thuringia	7	(6)
Sonneberg, The World's Largest Doll Center	13	(6)
Wooden Doll Making	19	(10)
Papier-Mache Doll Production	29	(18)
Adolf Fleischmann, Verleger	47	(6)
The Dressel Doll Factory	53	(12)
The Sonneberg Taufling	65	(4)
The Limbach Porcelain Factory	69	(8)
The A. W. Fr. Kister Porcelain Factory	77	(10)
The Hertwig Porcelain Factory	87	(10)
The Weiss, Kuhnert & Co. Porcelain Factory	97	(6)
The Gebruder Heubach Porcelain Factory	103	(10)
The Armand Marseille and Ernst Heubach Porcelain Factories	113	(16)
The Martin Eichhorn Doll Factory	129	(6)
Doll Making in Waltershausen	135	(4)
The Kestner Doll and Porcelain Factory	139	(12)
The Ohrdruf Area Porcelain Factories	151	(12)
The Simon & Halbig and Alt, Beck & Gottschalck Porcelain Factories	163	(14)
The Kammer & Reinhardt Doll Factory	177	(8)
Doll Making in Thuringia Today	185	(3)
Bibliography	188	(2)
Index	190	(2)
About the Author	192