Making a Magic World: Hildegard Günzel Celebrates 50 Years of Doll Designs
Alice in Wonderland, from the 2022 collection. By Karin Schrey With more than 200 award-winning...
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Category: Porcelain Dolls
Past Perfect: Brenda Mize Fashions Dolls to Honor Bygone Days
The desire to have a doll to love and to hold is not confined to children alone. Many adult collectors yearn to own a special doll that speaks to them in a unique and personal way. Knowing such an intimate bond exists between collector and doll, Brenda Mize has stepped in to help the connection grow stronger, sweeter, and more self-directed.
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Antique Q&A: ABG Character Dolls
I have quite a few antique dolls from the ABG factory. They are china and bisque shoulder heads, many with molded hair, all beautifully made, probably all made before 1900. You say in your books that ABG produced character heads in the 1920s. Could you be more specific about these later dolls?
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Anna Maryina’s Dolls Capture the Many Facets of Female Beauty
The fairy tale of The Frog Princess has influenced Russian artists across all media. Maryina...
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Antique Inspiration: Doug James’ 1470 Collection Re-Creates Early Fashion Doll
Somewhere between 1912 and 1925, the Simon & Halbig company produced a 14.5-inch lady doll. She had a small number of head variations but was always on the same body, which was unusual for the period and a small sign of the changing times. This was basically a high-end play doll for children whose dolls usually consisted of babies, toddlers, and young children.
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Civil War-era doll inspires award-winning children’s book
One of the projects that resulted from doll research that began over a decade ago came to fruition this year with the publication of my illustrated children’s book, “Sophia’s Gift.” Two months after the book was released, it won Gold in the 2021 Human Relations Indie Book Awards for cultural human relations in children’s books.
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Antique Q&A: Horsman Bisque Dolls
Q: I found this little all-bisque doll with a sticker that says “E.I. Horsman Co.” and “Germany.” I thought Horsman was an American company that made composition dolls. Are there two doll companies with the Horsman name?
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Antique Q&A: Max Handwerck Bisque
Q: I have recently started to collect German antique bisque dolls. I have several marked Heinrich Handwerck. Now I have found one marked Max Handwerck. Did this company change its name or are these two different companies?
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