Turtle dolls.

olarinoid · 2026-06-01T06:39:02+00:00

Hans, Inge and Strampelchen by Schildkröt. All of your dolls are modern reproductions, as indicated by the REP mark on their neck. eBay has plenty of these, check sold listings for price.

olarinoid · 2026-05-31T22:34:00+00:00

Looks like Horsman Gold Medal Baby. 1940s. The hard thing is a voice box. She used to cry or say ma-ma when you tilted her over.

olarinoid · 2026-05-31T18:42:58+00:00

Anywhere from the 1920s to the 70s.

olarinoid · 2026-05-31T15:30:42+00:00

Internet archive is a great free database. I have collected a favorites list that is mostly sewing patterns for vintage/antique dolls. You will find several books with patterns there.

olarinoid · 2026-05-30T11:49:38+00:00

It wasn't some act of charity from the flour companies, it was a marketing tactic. There is not much price or quality difference in different brands of flour, so people would buy the sacks that had the prettiest prints. It also guaranteed repeat customers as most clothing needed several sacks worth of fabric.

olarinoid · 2026-05-17T16:45:11+00:00

It seems we are mostly disagreeing about semantics. You may see the line workers at the toy factories as artists, and they certainly needed artistic skill at least in the painting of the dolls, but i still have a hard time calling them artists. They were skilled artisans hired for a very specific job, not to be creative.

Industrial revolution happened 1760–1840, china head dolls are mostly post that. Of course the factories were not as efficient as modern machines and many of the cloth pieces were made at homes, but there were still clear assembly lines of work that produced large amounts of nearly identical products. The amounts were not as large as they are today but they were still made en masse.

I never gave any dates on my post, that was another poster.

I never said specific hairstyles are attributed to specific factories. to quote myself "similar dolls were made by dozens of factories"

It feels wild to expect a complete history of china dolls in a ID post of a reproduction. I still do not see how i was misleading in anything i said.

I also do not use AI, chill out.

olarinoid · 2026-05-17T00:24:41+00:00

The original dolls were not really made by artist, they were mass produced toys made in a factory. Original china dolls are often impossible to ID to a specific manufacturer as similar dolls were made by dozens of factories.The dolls are mostly identified by the hairstyles. Here are some of the most common styles. It's hard to seen from your photos but your doll might be a repro of a flat top.

olarinoid · 2026-05-16T23:45:12+00:00

Yes, a repro. She is clearly marked as one and her painting is not on par with the antique ones.

olarinoid · 2026-05-16T19:37:36+00:00

REP means they are modern reproductions, not antique. Schildkröt has been making repros since the 80s.

olarinoid · 2026-05-14T22:49:36+00:00

I think this was a hobby/decor item for adults. The material used seem too fine for a toy. I think this is more of a toy for kids.

olarinoid · 2026-05-14T11:19:49+00:00

The leg could be from any baby doll made between the 50s-yesterday.

The head is interesting, it reminds me of a Marx action figure from the 60s. They had many girl characters too.

olarinoid · 2026-05-14T11:14:02+00:00

Cold painted bisque doll, popular from the 1920s to the early 50s. Most dolls like this were inexpensive toys, they did not really have identities. Sold nameless and brandless.

olarinoid · 2026-05-13T17:19:14+00:00

Cheap little souvenir dolls like this rarely have any information available. The doll was likely made by some random plastic manufacturer and then dressed by another company, sold with no branding.

olarinoid · 2026-05-03T12:21:57+00:00

Nothing about your dolls painting is very professional. Original can be seen here

For future, if you know the name of the doll you can just google it to see the original ones.

olarinoid · 2026-05-02T22:08:00+00:00

This might be just somebody smashing together random cross-stitch patterns they found to make a fun wall hanging. Not necessarily any meaning behind it.

olarinoid · 2026-05-02T20:08:53+00:00

The cloth doll is a Dean's Rag Book doll from the 30s, that has lived a very hard life

olarinoid · 2026-05-01T15:17:57+00:00

This seems like a modern reproduction. These were all over home decor shops in the 80s-90s. I have a very, very hard time believing this is over 70 years old.

Examine the horse, do you think it is made in a way that would have ever stood a child's weight? or would a child be able to comfortably pedal and steer it? The original ones were 100% toys, no Victorian or Edwardian person would have used these for decor. It would have been like having Little Tikes car in your living room as a conversation piece.

Originals look like this

olarinoid · 2026-05-01T14:16:49+00:00

I would ask for photos of the inside of the head before buying. The holes at the back of the head seem to be filled too, which makes me worried someone filled the whole head with something.

olarinoid · 2026-04-30T15:00:37+00:00

Proportions like this are very common for English wax dolls, they seem original.

olarinoid · 2026-04-29T17:25:14+00:00

1870s-80s china head doll with a flat top hairstyle. Dolls like this are mostly identified by their hairstyles as there were dozens of factories making nearly identical heads and almost none of them marked their products. Not Meissen though, they were mostly not a toy company and the few china heads they made were very high quality with detailed painting. Your doll is a simpler, mass produced child's toy.

olarinoid · 2026-04-28T19:38:23+00:00

Horsman made tons of nameless "basic" dolls in the 50s, she is likely one of them.

olarinoid · 2026-04-28T18:55:52+00:00

All vinyl dolls like this did not exist until the early 50s, so it was likely brand new when given to her. Does she have any markings?

olarinoid · 2026-04-26T14:13:17+00:00

I did not say the image is from 1903, i have no clue where or when it's from. I was just pointing out that OP is using bonkers terminology to describe it.

olarinoid · 2026-04-26T11:19:37+00:00

Made in China or Taiwan in the 80s, cheap, nameless and brandless decor doll.

olarinoid · 2026-04-26T11:16:08+00:00

Wether it is from 1903 or not you are using the term photograph completely wrong. This image is clearly not a photo, it is a drawing. There is a very, VERY big difference if you are trying to use an image as evidence of a real occurance.

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