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Cuno & Otto Dressel, portrait Uncle Sam doll 13" tall,
doll mark Germany S 8.
Photo courtesy Lebarn |
The Dressel family toy and doll business
in Sonneberg, Germany has a long history, it passed from one
generation to the next, by 1873 the company was known as the Cuno & Otto
Dressel Factory.
Dressel purchased bisque doll heads from noted
manufacturers such as: Simon & Halbig,
Ernst Heubach,
Gebrüder Heubach,
Limbach,
Armand Marseille and
Schoenau & Hoffmeister, they
were also supplied by other small doll factories and home workers.
Dressel's largest American client was
Butler Brothers.
Dressel expanded to three factories in which; dolls were
produced in Sonneberg, metal toys in Nürnberg and wood toys in Grunhainichen, Germany.
Over the years Cuno & Otto Dressel
produced
dolls of bisque, celluloid, china, composition, hard paste, papier mache, wax or
wood; Täuflinge or baby, child, lady and portrait dolls.
See below for
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll marks and doll mold numbers |
1898-1903 Dressel Portrait Character Doll Series, 10-15 1/2" tall, bisque heads
with portrait face, glass eyes, composition jointed body. Some Cuno & Otto
Dressel character doll names are; No. 2736 Admiral George Dewey doll, No.
2736 M. Miles
doll, No. 2736 Admiral William Thompson Sampson doll, Admiral Winfield Scott Schley doll,
Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee doll, No. 2736 President William McKinley doll, Richmond
Pearson Hobson doll, Buffalo Bill doll, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, a Farmer doll, Old Rip doll, Uncle Sam,
the Hexe Witch. All
dolls were dressed in their uniforms or appropriate to their character clothing
and the bisque heads were supplied by Simon & Halbig.
Dressel Portrait Character doll marks;
A, D, R, S, Hexe letters
or word plus a size number,
see below Uncle Sam doll mark;
made in Germany S 8.
Some Dressel doll trade names: 1903 Fifth Avenue dolls, 1906 Jutta doll molds; 1348, 1349, 1909.
Bambina dolls, 1910 Jutta
Baby doll molds; 1912, 1920, 1922. 1912 Poppy Doll (School boy), Superior, Victoria, Holz-Masse (wooden
composition) 1926 Sonny or Sunnie a baby doll. 1927 Kissie and Lotte dolls. The Jutta
doll is named for Countess Jutta, a patroness of Sonneberg. |
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1922+ Cuno & Otto Dressel, Jutta Baby doll, 24" tall, bisque
socket head, multi stroke painted eyebrows, painted upper and lower eye lashes,
sleep eyes, open mouth with upper teeth. Composition jointed bent limb
baby body, on back of head doll mark Made in Germany, four pointed star.
Photo courtesy of
littlemarz |
1912+ Cuno & Otto Dressel Poppy Doll, 13-14" tall,
sometimes called by collectors an
American School Boy doll, has a bisque shoulder head, molded painted
or unpainted hair, plus some may have flocking,
painted single stroke brows, painted upper and lower eye lashes, stationary
fixed glass eyes,
closed mouth. Cloth or leather stuffed jointed body with bisque or composition lower arms,
cloth or composition lower legs.
Doll is marked with an oval label (as shown below) usually in red ink on his
chest; Trade, winged
helmet symbol, Mark, Poppy Doll, Germany. Doll mark on back of head
10/0, 14/0 etc. indicating size numbers. Some bisque flange
heads are marked 5/0 on all composition jointed bodies have also been found
and there may be other sizes or similar markings, too.
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Cuno & Otto Dressel
Doll Marks Identified
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark symbol
winged helmet COD JUTTA |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark symbol winged helmet Holz-masse ED
(Ernst & Carl Dressel)
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Cuno & Otto Dressel
doll mark symbol Germany winged helmet 13/0 |
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark Bambina in 1909 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark
Germany C 1 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark oval
symbol C 2. |
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark
Germany C 2 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark
C 3 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark
Germany C 3 |
 Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark
oval symbol C4 |
 Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark
Germany C 4/0 X |
 Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark
Germany C 5/0 X |
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark Germany
C 6/0 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark COD, CCOD 2/0 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark COD
6 |
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark AM COD 93 - 0 - DEP
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark
COD 93 - 5 DEP |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark
6/0X AM COD 93 A-DEP |
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 Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark
backward E D |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark 1348
Jutta S & H 16 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mold 1349 Dressel oval symbol |
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark S & H
1349 Dressel 3 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark 1469 C & O Dressel Germany |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark 4
PD 1767 an anchor symbol |
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark 1776 II 4 DEP |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark A. 1776 M C.O.D 3/0 DEP made in Germany |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark 1849 Jutta S & H 11 |
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark 1896 COD 1 DEP Made in Germany |
Cuno & Otto Dressel
doll mark
(in) 1915 Made in Germany
four point star 1912 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark Jutta (in) 1914 5 1/2 |
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark oval symbol Jutta (in) 1914 size 8 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark
Jutta (in) 1914 size 12 1/2 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark Heubach-Koppelsdorf
Jutta - Baby Dressel Germany
(in) 1922 size 10 |
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark Hexe 15/0 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark Mercurius |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark O Patented O Holzmasse
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Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark Trade helmet symbol Mark Poppy Doll Germany in
1912 |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark made in
Germany S 2. |
Cuno & Otto Dressel doll mark made in
Germany S 8. |
Cuno & Otto
Dressel Doll Mold Numbers Identified
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93, 1348, 1349, 1418, 1468, 1469, 1767, 1776, 1848, 1849,
1893, 1896, 1898, 1912, 1914, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1925, 2736, 8679
Doll mold 1418 is a
Simon & Halbig bisque head on a Dressel stamped body
Limbach doll mold
8679 is a pouty character boy doll attributed to Dressel. |
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