Cloth Dolls, Makers & Marks 1860+

Adrien Carvaillo 1915-1939 (Paris, France), La Vénus dolls are 14 1/2 to 23 1/2 inches tall, made of felt cloth with painted faces, doll mark Venus or La VENUS, distributed by Bon Marché, quite similar to Lenci cloth dolls.

Cocheco Manufacturing Company, then Lawrence & Company 1827-1893+ Boston, MA USA, made cloth rag dolls beginning in 1889 designed by Celia & Charity Smith, rag doll mark; Cocheco Manufacturing Company 1827, Boston - New York - Phlia (in a circle), Lawrence & Co, Patented Aug. 15th 1893 Number 503316.  1893 Ida Gutsell designed the cloth rag dolls.

Collingbourne Mills Company 1920s USA, made cut out and sew at home cloth rag dolls and doll clothing, doll mark  America's Best Cottons, RBC cloth label.

Columbian Doll Company 1891-1910 USA, are named after the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair where the dolls were exhibited, the cloth dolls were made by sisters Emma & Marietta Adams; dressed cloth dolls, stitched fingers and toes, stitched shoulder, hip and knee joints, flat hand painted facial features and hair, painted by Emma until her passing in 1900, after 1900 artists were hired for the task.  Marietta outfitted the dolls in simple cotton dresses, bonnets or caps hand sewn kid slippers or booties.  Early doll mark Columbian Doll Emma E. Adams Oswego Centre, N.Y., later doll mark The Columbian Doll Manufactured by Marietta Adams Ruttan Oswego N.Y.

Creations Larrea of Biarritz cloth wired dolls 10-11" tall 1950s-1960s France, simiar to Klumpe or Roldan of Spain dolls

Darrow Manufacturing Company 1866-1877 Bristol, CT USA, made 15 or 18" tall dolls with leather rawhide heads that were pressed, shaped and painted on a cloth body with leather arms and shoes, patented by Franklin Elijah Darrow and Deon E. Peck, dolls are marked with a green and gold paper label; F.E. Darrow PATENT May 1st 1866.

JK Farnell & Company 1871-1968 ENG, also known as Farnell's Alpha Toys, made pressed felt, velvet, stockinette cloth dolls, with side glancing eyes and smiling mouths, chubby bodies of stockinette with seams in front, back and sides of each leg, mohairor human hair sewn on in a circular pattern.  Farnell made child dolls, native dolls, novelty dolls, coronation portrait dolls of King Edward VIII, King George VI,, dolls are marked with a tag; Farnell, Alpha Toys, Made in England or H. M. The King, Made in England, J. K. Farnell & Co, Action London or the portrait character's name.

George H. Hawkins Company 1867-1870 NYC, USA, made cloth head dolls saturated with glue or sizing, pressed into dies and hardened retaining its shape.  Doll heads marked on shoulder X.L.C.R DOLL HEAD Pat. Sept. 8, 1868 (issued in USA, France, England) which is sometimes found on Automata Mechanical dolls made by William Farr Goodwin.

Klumpe, Layna, Nistis or Roldan Companies 1950s+ Spain - all of these companies made a cloth covered wire armature doll with a painted mask face that represent; Spanish dancers, professionals, a person doing a hobby or activity, historic characters, dolls are usually under 12" tall, are charmingly dressed and posed as about 200 different characters; a Flamenco dancer male or female, doing an activity; Fishing, holding a Birthday Cake, Lady Shopping in windy weather, Mother and Child, Skiing, Swimming, etc, as a Professional; Bull fighter, Doctor, Nurse etc.  Dolls would have had a tag attached to the clothing identifying it's maker.  Effanbee imported Klumpe dolls to the USA.  Rosenfeld Imports and Leora Dolores of Hollywood imported some Roldan dolls.

Krestine Knudsen, author, The Old Country Dolls, book and dolls 1928+ Oakland, CA USA, made dolls as illustrated in her book, are dressed cloth rag dolls with oil painted faces, dolls were marked with a white rectangular tag, THE OLD COUNTRY DOLLS Trade Mark Patented.

Richard G. Krueger Company 1917-1964+ USA, best known for their 1920s-1930s cloth dolls, mask face dolls, rag dolls and stuffed plush animals, also made bent limb baby dolls, rattle head dolls.  Maintained a relationship with King Innovations, who was the sole licensed manufacturer by Rose O'Neill of cloth stuffed 1929-1930+ Cuddle Kewpies or Cuddly Kewpies dolls, sizes 11, 14 1/2, 17 & 22" tall, Krueger registered patent 1785800.  Many of their cloth dolls are similar to Averill, Mollyes and Knickerbocker dolls.  Doll body and clothing is usually well marked with a cloth tag R G Krueger NYC. Krueger filed a trademark patent as late as 1964 and is the last date we could find for this company.  They also sold plastic or vinyl baby dolls ca. 1960s.

Labrador Cloth Tea Dolls 1960s+ North America, dolls made of caribou skins stuffed with tea and dressed, made by Intuit and Eskimos in the arctic regions of North America.