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Hermann Steiner doll mark
HS
Hermann Steiner doll mark SHA, SAH, HAS
Hermann Steiner doll mark
HSN
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Hermann Steiner of Sonneberg and Neustadt,
Germany and in Bavaria, entered the doll market at the end of the German bisque doll era and began producing
dolls around 1920. They are probably best know for their character baby
or infant dolls, which were the doll of choice, at that time. A
1921 registered trademark name is My Pearl doll.
Hermann Steiner appears
to have supplied dolls to Moses Kohnstam &
Company, as their MOKO
mark plus the HS Steiner mark have been found on dolls. H. Steiner's
London agent was Boult, Wade & Tennant and in the USA the distributor was Roth,
Baitz & Lipsitz.
Hermann Steiner created the name "The Living Steiner Eye", that described the
natural movement of doll eyes irises to move side to side and sleep in 1926 and changed the company name to Porzellanfabrik Hermann Steiner.
H. Steiner produced bisque, composition and celluloid doll heads with glass or painted eyes, molded hair or wigged
with a
body of cloth, kid leather or composition, black or white dolls.
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Sometime between 1940 to the 1960s Hermann Steiner became
Steiner & Hauser, also called
Steha Doll & Toy Company and used the combined company name initials of Steha for their mark as shown below.
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Antique Hermann Steiner Dolls Identified
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1920+ Hermann Steiner Character Baby
doll,
Bye-Lo Baby doll type look a like, 8-16" tall, bisque head with flange
neck, painted or glass eyes,
solid dome head with molded painted hair or wigged, closed or open mouth,
cloth or jointed composition body, bisque or composition hands, usually marked:
HS
Germany, 240, 246, 401. This infant character doll was also made with a composition head
and hands.
Hermann Steiner doll mold 947 is a composition head doll with googly
disk eyes, closed smiling mouth, on a all cloth jointed body, usually marked
DRGM 954642 HS Germany 947 |
1920+
Character Baby doll,
Bye-Lo baby type 10", painted eyes |
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1920+ Hermann Steiner Pierrot Clown
Baby doll, 8" tall, bisque socket head, painted eyes and face, mohair wig,
jointed composition body, he's wearing a tall green hat that would have
complemented his clown costume (we had to crop his hat in order to get the photo
to fit this page, sorry baby clown doll), doll mark Germany Herm Steiner 16/0 |
1920+ Pierrot Clown Baby
doll, 8" |
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1920+ Hermann Steiner Dolly face doll,
10-22" tall, bisque socket head, glass eyes, open mouth, wigged,
jointed composition body,
doll usually marked:
HS Germany + a size
number
or
Herm
Steiner
Germany
Also, Tessie, doll mark, HS a size number, Moko Bavaria or
Tessie Germany a size number, for the
Moses Kohnstam Company. |
1920+ Hermann Steiner Dolly face
doll, 22" |
Hermann Steiner Doll Marks
Identified
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Hermann Steiner doll mark Germany Herm Steiner 16/0 |
Hermann Steiner doll mark Made in Germany Herm Steiner 18/0 |
Hermann Steiner doll mark 128 Herm Steiner HS |
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Hermann Steiner doll mark 128 Herm Steiner 22 0 |
Hermann Steiner doll mark 15 HS Germany 240 |
Hermann Steiner doll mark
DRGM 954642 HS Germany 240 |
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Hermann Steiner doll mark H. 401 01/2 S made in Germany |
Hermann Steiner doll mark H. 402 H. 5/0 S |
Hermann Steiner doll mark Herm Steiner HS Germany |
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Hermann Steiner doll mark HS Germany 15 |
Hermann Steiner doll mark HSt |
Hermann Steiner doll mark HSt 10 |
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Hermann Steiner doll mark Made in Germany HSt 15 |
Hermann Steiner doll trademark My Pearl |
Steiner & Hauser
doll mark Steha inside a triangle |
Hermann Steiner Doll Mold
Numbers Identified
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128, 133 googly eyes, 134 black doll, 153, 222 googly eyes, 223,
233 googly eye girl with open mouth, 240, 241, 242
googly eyes, 243, 245, 246, 247, 248 googly eyes, 273, 275, 391, 401, 402, 408,
455, 947, 1000,
459546240, 459754233 both nine digit number molds have googly eyes
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some Hermann Steiner doll bodies are stamped
or incised 459546, 459754, 954642
Hermann Steiner created the name "The Living Steiner Eye", that allowed natural
movement of doll eyes to move and sleep
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