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1860 or 1886-1900 Emma L. Bristol, a Provenience, Rhode Island USA doll manufacturer, made composition shoulder head dolls with kid leather bodies, human hair wigs, molded painted blue eyes, closed mouths.  Known marking is:

BRISTOL'S UNBREAKABLE DOLL

 273 HIGH St. PROVIDENCE, RI.

1860 or 1886-1900 Emma L. Bristol

1888-1921 Beck Manufacturing Co., a USA doll manufacturer, made composition baby & child dolls with glass eyes and wigs, dolls were dressed in dark knit clothing, so they would not show play dirt.  Also later, imported bisque head dolls from Europe.  It is unknown how/if their composition dolls were marked.

1888-1921 Beck Manufacturing Co.

1892-1908 American Doll & Toy Co., of Brooklyn, NY USA, also known as the First American Doll Factory, Goldstein & Hoffman & The Hoffman Co., they produced the 1892 issued patent for "Can't Break Em" composition head dolls.  Originally owned by Solomon D. Hoffman, when he passed away around 1908 the patent & company were merged with the Aetna Doll & Toy company.  By 1925 Horsman acquired the Aetna company.  The can't break em dolls are usually composition shoulder heads, with a cloth body, glass eyes, wigged, believed to be marked:  F.A.D.F

1892-1908 American Doll & Toy Co.

First American Doll Factory

Goldstein & Hoffman

The Hoffman Co.

1902-1916+ Baker & Bennett, USA doll manufacturer, made small composition dolls, best known for their Spearmint Kid doll.  Composition dolls maybe marked: B B.

1902-1916+ Baker & Bennett

1902-1930s J. Bouton & Co., a USA doll manufacturer, made bisque baby & child dolls, also composition Mama baby & character dolls.  They are probably best known for their musical Baby Phyllis doll.  It is unknown if/how dolls are marked.

1902-1930s J. Bouton & Co.,

1911-1917 Mitred Box Co. - was a short lived doll maker in New York city, USA.  Only about four composition doll models have been found and some of these show characteristics of the same body construction to the Amberg dolls, thus it's assumed they may have shared suppliers.  Some of the dolls resemble the Gebruder Heubach head molds.  One of their composition dolls was Coquette, (Heubach's #7788, 7850 molds) 14" tall, molded hair with painted blue hair bow doll, closed smiling mouth, painted blue side glancing eyes, painted black molded boots.  Markings: unmarked.

Other dolls by this maker may have a marking of: Yankee Doll/Made in USA.

1911-1917 Coquette, 14"

1912-1930 Arcy Toy Manufacturing Co., of New York made dolls of bisque, celluloid & composition, dolls are generally a good quality.  Marks:  ARCY © 1914

1912-1930 Arcy Toy Manufacturer

1912-1920 Elektra Toy & Novelty company - an USA company that made composition dolls:  cloth body or all composition, most with painted eyes and molded painted hair, some have a hole in the top of the head with a tuff of hair inserted.

1912-1920 Elektra Toy & Novelty company

ca. 1913+ Arcade Toy Manufacturing Co. Inc. of New York made composition dolls usually with molded hair & painted eyes, cloth body with disk pinned cloth legs have been found.  It is unknown when they ceased to exist or what other types of dolls they manufactured.

ca. 1913+ Arcade Toy Manufacturing Co. Inc.

1914-1920 Bellas Hess & Co., a USA doll manufacturer, while they mainly sold bisque head child dolls, they also sold bisque baby dolls & composition dolls.  Dolls are of good quality, it is unknown if/how dolls are marked.

1914-1920 Bellas Hess & Co.

1914-1929 Nibur Novelty Co. -a USA doll manufacturer, made composition dolls in various sizes, also sold doll heads & parts.  Marked:  NIBUR within a diamond.

ca. 1920's Baby Doll, 12" tall, composition head & limbs, cloth body, painted facial features, closed painted mouth, molded painted hair.  Marked on shoulder plate: NIBUR in a diamond.

ca. 1920's Baby Doll, 12"

1915-1917 Bijou Doll Co., a New York USA doll manufacturer, made composition doll heads with cloth bodies in 11" with a mohair wig & 14" with painted hair.   It is unknown if/how dolls are marked.  It appears a bankruptcy petition was filed by creditors on September 12, 1917 according to The New York Times.

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1915-1917 Bijou Doll Co.

ca. 1915-1920's Character Doll, 14" tall, cloth jointed body and limbs, composition head with molded painted hair, painted facial features with open smiling mouth.  Marked on neck: N.D. co.

This marking was used by; Natural Doll Co and National Doll Co

1915-1920's Character doll, 14"

1916-1926 American Doll Co. - was owned and operated by Bayless Bros. & Co., of Louisville, KY USA.  Not much is known of this doll maker, but the few dolls confirmed have rather distinctive features.  Boy and Girl dolls have been found in various large sizes (18-25"), they both have molded hair (his hair is all over curls, hers is a Marcelled style), if hair is unpainted then it probably originally wore a mohair wig, composition shoulder head on a stuffed cloth body, partial composition lower short arms, cloth legs with cloth boots stitched on or paper mâché body with paper mâché legs with blue or pink painted on boots, all their dolls have decal eyes, closed slight smiling painted mouth.  The made both Mama & Baby type dolls.

Shown is the face mold for the Girl doll, she will probably have molded Marcelled curls beneath her wig, composition shoulder head, with cloth body and legs, decal blue eyes, closed slight smiling mouth, short partial composition arms, black cloth stitched on boots over the cloth legs.  Marked: Am. Doll Co.

A trade name of Honey Child was registered for them, that doll looks very similar to the Bye-Lo doll.  Other markings used by American Doll Co. are: A.D. / C., A.D. Co., Am. Doll Co., Am Doll Co. / Copr. 1926 and Honey Child,

American Doll Co., Girl, 20"

1917-1920 American Produced Stuffed Toy Co., a USA manufacturer, made dolls with composition heads on cloth bodies, mostly baby dolls & military dolls.  Unknown if/how dolls are marked.

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1917-1920 American Produced Stuffed Toy Co.,

1917-1918 American Toy & Doll Manufacturer, a USA company, made baby & teenage composition dolls, of good quality.  Dolls may be marked: A.D. Co. which is also a marking used by the Aetna Doll & Toy Co. although the two companies are unrelated.

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1917-1918 American Toy & Doll Manufacturer

1917-1930 American Toy & Novelty Co., a USA manufacturer, made composition baby, character & teenage dolls of all composition or composition & cloth, and are of good quality.  It is unknown if/how dolls are marked.  In 1930 the company merged with the Frank Plotnick company who specialized in cloth type dolls, both companies ceased soon after 1930.

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1917-1930s American Toy & Novelty Co.

1917-1930 Atlantic Playthings Co., a USA manufacturer, made both black & white mama baby dolls.  Dolls are of good quality, it is unknown if/how dolls are marked.

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1917-1930 Atlantic Playthings Co.

1917-1930 Atlas Doll & Toy Co., a USA manufacturer, made both metal & composition dolls, also a line of mechanical dolls.  Dolls are of good quality, it is unknown if/how all dolls are marked.  Toodles was a doll marking.

Tootles, 11", all composition, molded hair, tin sleep eyes, closed mouth, marked on back of neck in script: Toodles

by Atlas Doll & Toy Co.

1917-1921 Babs Manufacturing Corp., a USA doll manufacturer, made a line of mesh with flexible steel spring joints & wooden limbs dolls.  Dolls may be marked with an acorn shape image with USA in the top of the cap & Babs Mfg in the body of the acorn.

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1917-1921 Babs Manufacturing Corp.

1917-1929 Baby Phyllis Doll Co., a USA doll manufacturer, made composition dolls, also imported bisque dolls from Germany.  Dolls are of good quality, unknown how the composition dolls are marked, but the imported bisque dolls marking is usually: Phyllis/Made in Germany, Baby Phyllis/Made in Germany/24014.

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1917-1929 Baby Phyllis Doll Co.

1918-1919 H. C. Abramson, a short lived USA doll manufacturer, made all composition or composition heads on cloth body dolls, usually with molded painted hair & painted eyes.  It is unknown how dolls were marked.

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1918-1919 H. C. Abramson Doll Company

1918 American Glueless Doll Co., a USA doll manufacturer, made dolls without glue, the dolls limbs are attached by socket joints.  Unknown how dolls are marked.

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1918 American Glueless Doll Co

1918-1920 Art Craft Toy Products & 1921 Art Craft Playthings Corp. - not much is known about this short lived doll maker, they made dolly face & baby dolls in all composition with ball jointed bodies, sleep eyes and quality wigs, made to compete with the German bisque head dolls.  Some markings used were: Art Craft USA (in an oval) or Art Craft in an oval NYC & ARTCRAFT PLAYTHINGS.

Photo courtesy of Ronsfancy, dress designed by Ronsfancy as well.

1918-1920 Dolly Face, 21"

1918-1925 Berwick Doll Company - best known for their Famlee Dolls, 16" tall, composition doll heads and limbs, jointed legs, wigged, cloth body with shoulder plate, came with three to twelve interchangeable screw on heads of both boys and girls, had matching costumes for the character heads ie: black doll, Chinese doll, nurse, and others.  Dolls were patented by David Wiener.  Dolls are unmarked: cloth body may have an ink stamp.

ca. 1921 Famlee dolls, 16"

1919-1921 Acorn Doll Company, a USA doll manufacturer, made all composition or composition heads on cloth bodies, wigged or molded hair, painted eyes or sleep.  Dolls are of mediocre quality. 

One doll marking found for this company is a picture of an acorn with the initials A.D.C. in the top of the acorn body & American Made imprinted in the lower cap.

1919-1921 Acorn Doll Company

1919-1920 Alisto Manufacturing, of the USA produced composition dolls with molded on clothing usually about 12" tall.  Short lived company, unknown how or if dolls are marked.

1919-1920 Alisto Manufacturing

1919 Berry & Ross Doll Co., a USA doll manufacturer, they were completely owned & operated by black African Americans, they produced black composition dolls & military dolls.  Dolls are of good quality, unknown if/how dolls were marked.

1919 Berry & Ross Doll Co.

1919-1921 Bester Doll Manufacturing Co., a New Jersey, USA manufacturer of mostly composition dolls, which maybe be marked with their trade name of Bloomfield.

1919-1921 Bester Doll Manufacturing Co.

ca. 1920s+ American Ocarina & Toy Company, a USA manufacturer, made novelty all composition dolls.  Dolls are of mediocre quality & it is unknown if/how they are marked.

ca. 1920s+ American Ocarina & Toy Company

1920-1950s Arrow Novelty Co., a New York, USA manufacturer, made cloth, composition, hard plastic & vinyl dolls.  Best known for their Skookum Native Indian dolls designed by Mary McAboy which came in both composition or hard plastic.  Dolls are of good quality, they usually had a paper label on the foot that read:  "Skookum Bully Good Indian".

Note: Not to be confused with the later Arrow Plastics Industries company 1940s+.

1920-1950s Arrow Novelty Co.

ca. 1920s Bleier Brothers Co., a USA doll manufacturer, produced a composition doll Abe Kabibble, a Jewish comic character in Abie the Agent (1914-1940) created by cartoonist Harry Hershfield (1885-1974).  Registered trade name was Bee Bee Brand, however it is unknown if/how dolls were marked.

ca. 1920s Bleier Brothers Co.

ca. 1920s Bouton Woolf Co., a USA doll manufacturer, made composition dolls, usually copies of other manufacturers known dolls, such as a Patsy look alike, named Phyllis.  they also supplied dolls to other dealers.  It is unknown if/how dolls were marked, the Patsy look alike Phyllis doll is marked Phyllis.

ca. 1920s Boulton Woolf Co.

ca. 1920's-1949 Cohen, Herman - House of Puzzy - they made composition character dolls; the Good Habit Kids, & shown are both Puzzy & Sizzy.

1948 Puzzy, 15" tall, all composition jointed body, painted facial features with big eyes & freckles, open smiling mouth, molded painted orange hair.  Marked: H of P USA, Puzzy H of P USA.

ca. 1948 Puzzy, 15"

ca. 1920's-1949 Cohen, Herman - House of Puzzy - they made composition character dolls; the Good Habit Kids, & shown are both Puzzy & Sizzy.

1948 Sizzy, 15" tall, all composition jointed body, painted facial features, closed smiling mouth, molded painted orange hair.  Marked: H of P USA, Sizzy H of P USA.

ca. 1948 Sizzy, 14"

1922-1927 S. Blechman & Sons, USA doll manufacturer, made composition dolls, registered the trade name for a doll; Charm.  It is unknown how or if the dolls are marked.

1922-1927 S. Blechman & Sons

1923-1927 American Unbreakable Doll Corp., a USA manufacturer, made composition head & limbs, mama baby dolls with cloth bodies, they also sold doll limbs to other manufacturers.

1917-1930s American Toy & Novelty Co.

1924-1929 Metropolitan Doll Company - a USA company that made composition dolls and parts, including: mama, baby, hair loop bow, and cries.  Some of their dolls were designed by famous doll sculptor Ernest Peruggi.

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1924-1929 Metropolitan Doll Company

ca. 1930's Ming Ming Baby, 11" tall, Asian boy doll, all composition jointed body, molded hair, painted eyes & closed mouth, que hat (wisdom hat) with black braid, painted black bottom of feet for soles of shoes.

ca. 1930's Ling Ling Baby, 11" tall, Asian girl doll, all composition,  both came dressed in a two piece pants set made of taffeta with braid trim and matching hat.  Ling Ling has painted white bottoms of her feet for soles of shoes. 

Dolls were both produced by the Quan Quan company of California.  Both dolls are unmarked.

ca. 1930's Ming Ming Baby, 11"

1937 Lone Ranger & Tonto dolls, 10 1/2, 15 1/2 or 20" tall, composition flange head and lower arms, stuffed cloth body upper arms and legs, stitched hip joints, molded painted hair, painted eyes, closed mouth.  The Lone Ranger and Tonto are dressed in faux buckskin and suede clothing and each has a holster with two guns.  Hi-Yo Silver!  Made by the Dollcraft Novelty Co. New York, USA.  (Used the head mold from Reliable Of Canada). 

Dollcraft Novelty Co. also made a Canadian Royal Mounty doll, again using Reliable's head mold.

1937 Lone Ranger & Tonto

1939 Jeannine of Alsace-Lorraine, 8" tall, World's fair International Dolls, Vocation Dolls & Storybook Doll series.  Some other names were:  Girl of the Golden West, Ermine of Turkey, Edith the Nurse, Little Bo Peep, plus others, all composition jointed body, molded hair beneath a wig, painted side glancing eyes, closed painted mouth.  Clothing is often stapled to the body.  Dolls are unmarked.  Made by Dollcraft Novelty Co. of New York, USA, also dist. by the Joy Doll Company 1920-1922.

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1939 Jeannine of Alsace-Lorraine, 8"