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Jules Nicholas Steiner Figure A bebe
doll 23" tall |
Jules Nicholas Steiner was born March 1832 and died February 1902, he began his early career as a horloger mechanicale
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a clock maker in Paris, France. Steiner was issued his first patent of many in 1855 for a mechanical doll and in 1858 for a mechanical toy. By 1864 Steiner was advertising himself as a
fabrique spéciale de poupées et bébés parlants, mécaniques et articules = a
specialized Doll maker and Toy maker.
Jules Nicholas Steiner's company was also known as
Société Steiner in 1882.
Early Jules Steiner dolls are 1863-1890s Bébé Parlant Automatique
(also called Antique
Mechanical or Automata doll) an automatic talking
baby doll with wax over papier mâché heads, a bisque and fabric body.
Later dolls
have bisque heads with fabric and composition bodies.
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1863 Waltzing Poupée lady dolls
with a bisque shoulder head on a cardboard base body. 1880-1890s dolls; Bébé Incassables (unbreakable doll), Bébé Premier Pas walking and
talking dolls, Series dolls and Figure dolls, La Patricienne,
plus many innovations and improvements over the years were made to dolls
by Steiner and his successors |
Jules Steiner History of Dates, Lessees or Successors
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1880-1890 J. Bourgoin
- 1889 Le Petit Parisien Bébé J. Steiner Medaille D' Or
Paris
1891-1893 Amédée Onésime La Fosse
- 1892+ La Parisien Bébé dolls
1893-1899 Marie La Fosse, widow of Amédée
- 1895 acquired Tourell & Henri Alexandre - Bébé Phenix |
1899-1903 Jules Mettais
- 1899 acquired May Frères - Bébé Mascotte
- 1899 Phenix Baby, Bébé Liege
- 1900 Bébé Merveilleuse
- 1901 Bébé Modéle (H. Alexandre)
1905-1908 Edmond Daspres
- 1905 La Patricienne
Déposé doll body mark |
Note: Henri Georges Gustave Alexandre
was an inventor and doll maker of the Bébé Phenix doll. Sometime between 1889 to1892 he merged with
the Tourrel Company and both then merged in 1895 with
Jules Nicholas Steiner.
Jules Nicholas Steiner
Antique Dolls Identified
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1870s Bébé Parlant Automatique face, 18"
Bisque solid dome unmarked shoulder head with a round
face, fixed glass eyes, painted
feathered brows, delicate painted upper and lower eye lashes, closed
outlined mouth. |
Bébé Parlant Automatique bisque hip body, 18"
Body has bisque upper arms, lower arms, hips and lower
legs, fabric mid arms, abdomen and knees.
Also called a Motschmann or Täuflinge body type.
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ca.
1882 Bébé Parlant Automatique doll face,
(automatic talking baby doll) 23" tall, Bébé Gigoteur
is a kicking and crying mechanical doll, with a solid dome bisque unmarked socket head, feathered eyebrows, painted upper and lower
eyelashes, fixed glass eyes, open outlined mouth with an upper and lower row
of teeth. |
 
Bébé Parlant Automatique, 23" tall, doll body, doll stamp
Tauflinge body type made of composition upper arms, lower
legs, composition covered with fabric torso and fabric upper legs.
Body blue ink stamp in a square box, reads;
Aux Tuileries, Maison (Charles) Bail, Jouets, 210
Rue de Rivoli
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1890s Jules N. Steiner, Figure A Bébé Le Parisien, doll face, open mouth with teeth, 14" tall
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Jules N. Steiner Figure A Bébé doll
Bisque doll head mark
PARIS
A 7 _ 8
Red ink body mark:
LE PARISIEN |
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1890s Jules Steiner, Figure A doll face Le Parisien 17 1/2"
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Jules N. Steiner, Figure A doll, 17 1/2"
Bisque doll head mark
11
PARIS
Le Parisien
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1889+ J N. Steiner Figure A Bébé doll face, about 21",
53
centimeters, bisque swivel socket head, feathered eye brows, painted upper
and lower eye lashes, fixed blue paperweight eyes, closed mouth with
outlined lips, composition body jointed at the shoulders, elbows, hips
and knees with straight wrists and banana fingers.
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Jules Steiner Figure A Bébé doll
doll head mark
J STEINER
Bte S G D G
PARIS
FIre
A 13
Jules
Steiner Figure A Bébé body label with a flag:
Le Petit
Parisien Médaille D' or Paris 1889
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1890s Jules N. Steiner Figure C doll 15"
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Jules N. Steiner Figure C doll 15"
composition jointed body
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1890s Jules N. Steiner Figure C doll face, 33"
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J Steiner Figure C
Doll mark
FIGURE C 7
STEINER
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1895 Jules N. Steiner Bebe Phenix doll face 11",
closed mouth |
Jules N. Steiner Bébé Phénix doll mark star 83
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Jules Nicholas
Steiner Abbreviations
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B BTE
- registered
FE FIRE FRE FIGURE
= face
SIE
= series
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STE
= Steiner
SUCCr = successor
S.G.D.G. = registered without government
guarantee |
Jules Nicholas Steiner
Series incised Bisque Head Doll Marks
(Ser ies Letter ·
various doll size numbers)
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SIE
A · # |
SIE
B · # |
SIE C · # |
SIE
E · # |
SIE
F · # |
SIE
G · # |
Jules Nicholas Steiner
FIGURE A Incised Bisque Head Doll Marks
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A 3/0
J STEINER B. S.G.D.G.
J BOURGOIN SUCCr |
FIGURE A No 5
J STEINER BTE
S.G.D.G.
PARIS |
J STEINER
BTE
S.G.D.G.
PARIS
FRE A 9 |
STEINER
PARIS
F A - 11 |
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A 2.3
PARIS |
A 7
LE PARISIEN
BTE
SGDG
A 7 |
A. 9. 10
LE PARISIEN |
A . 15
NAIN BLEU |
Jules Nicholas
Steiner FIGURE B Incised Bisque Head Doll Marks
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B I
J STEINER B. S.G.D.G.
J BOURGOIN SUCCr |
FIGURE B No 1
J STEINER BTE
SGDG
PARIS |
J STEINER
BTE SGDG
PARIS
FIRE B 20 |
Jules Nicholas
Steiner FIGURE C, D, E Incised Bisque Head Doll Marks
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FIGURE C No 3/0
STEINER BTE
SGDG
PARIS |
STEINER
PARIS
FRE C 4/0 |
STEINER
PARIS
FRE C 15 |
STEINER
PARIS
FRE D
· 15 |
J. STEINER
BTE.
S.G.D.G
PARIS
FRE E 3 |
Jules Nicholas Steiner / J Bourgoin Early Doll Body Ink Stamp Marks
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J STEINER B
S.G.D.G.
J BOURGOIN
SUCCr |
STEINER B S.G.D.G.
BOURGOIN SUCCr
PARIS |
J Steiner Bte S.g.d.g. J. Bourgoin |
Jules Nicholas Steiner Label or Ink
Body Stamp
J Caduceus symbol
ST
Caduceus = a
symbol of a winged staff with two intertwined snakes ink body stamp
Jules N. Steiner also supplied bisque heads to Maison
Francois Simonne for fashion lady dolls and bébés.
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