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4 days ago · Kämmer & Reinhardt Dolls - Identification & Value. Kämmer & Reinhardt’s true character children are among the most sought-after of all antique dolls. Mold 100 is called the Kaiser Baby by collectors, although it isn’t a portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm. He is much more common than the other characters.
A brief history of the Kämmer & Reinhardt doll company which was formed in 1886 in Waltershausen, Thüringia, Germany by Ernst Kämmer and Franz Reinhardt. From 1886 to 1909 K & R made only dolly faced dolls with a bisque head on a composition ball jointed or kid leather body.
May 3, 2022 · A: You have a genuine antique doll with a bisque head and a composition body produced during the 1920s by the Kammer & Reinhardt firm located in Waltershausen, Germany. Their trademark is the “K” and “R” on either side of the star. Her head is made of bisque, an unglazed porcelain.
Find the worth of your German Kammer & Reinhardt dolls 1895 to 1920. Research our price guide with auction results on 15 items from $36 to $724.
- Marks Found on Kammer & Reinhardt Dolls
- 1891 Phonograph / Grammaphone Invention
- Chicago 1893
- 1902 Purchase of Heinrich Handwerck Doll Factory
- 1903 Us Patent Registered
- 1909 Textile Chemistry Patent
- 1911 Events For Kammer & Reinhardt
- 1913 Patent Registration
- 1913 Max and Moritz Kammer and Reinhardt Dolls
- 1915 Eye Movement Patent
Many doll heads manufacturered by Kammer & Reinhardt have different incised marks. Most easily recognized are the initials K & R with a six pointed star between the letters. They worked with Simon & Halbig so some doll heads have both the K R mark with the Simon & Halbig mark. Some of the KR doll heads will only have the name Simon & Halbig. A doll...
Their history is not solely related to manufacturing dolls. Kammer & Reinhardt of Walterhausen marketed toy grammaphones. In 1891 someone wrote that the device reproduced human speech better that it did music. Kämmer & Reinhardt were referred to in French as “la maison Kammer, Reinhardt et Cie.” See the grammaphone here. During this time German pub...
In Germany’s official cataloguefor the 1893 fair held in Chicago, the company “Waltershausen in Thuringia Toy manufactory. Specialty: Fine jointed dolls, bric-a-brac (deers, horses, &c.).”
After the death of Heinrich Handwerck in 1902, Kammer & Reinhardt purchased his doll factory. They continued to use the Heinrich Handwerck name for those dolls.
In 1903 Franz Reinhardt registered a patent for a walking doll. The patent registered officially on September 8, 1903 related to a doll, puppet, or the like which can have its legs adjusted in upright, oblique, or sitting position. The mechanism would cause the head to move from side to side while walking. Franz Reinhardt identified himself in the ...
In 1909 they worked with someone named Zierow to patent a method of processing plastic related to the textile chemistry. One can read the description of the process in Patents for Inventions. Abridgments of Specifications from 1909 easily viewed at the Hathi Trust here. (Theory and continuing question: Is this related to a varnish developed to use ...
They also registered another doll head mold in 1911for three years. In 1911 they celebrated their 25th anniversary of doing business.
The German magazine that published patent registrations (Sprechsaal für Keramik, Glas, Email, Silikate) listed in 1913 Kammer & Reinhardt‘s for a porcelain doll head #122. The same year Sprechsaal announced their patent 542 748for a doll’s head with a plastic tongue that was immovably attached to the inside of the head.
In 1913 Kammer & Reinhardt advertised their version of the comic characters Max and Moritz from the book “Max and Moritz: A Story of Naughty Boys in Seven Pranks” by Wilhelm Busch. The two dolls have painted eyes and the numbers 123 and 124 incised on the back of the heads.
Kammer & Reinhardt have a patent registered in 1915for a unique eye mechanism movement. The description says (translated) “A pendulum weight used to adjust the eyeballs is slidably connected to the eyeballs or the eyeball bridge in such a way that changing the center of gravity of the pendulum weight relative to the axis of rotation of the eye can ...
German Bisque Art Character, Model 115A, by Kammer and Reinhardt. 16" (42 cm.) Bisque socket head, blue glass sleep eyes, painted lashes, feathered brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth with downcast expression, accent line between the lips, brunette human hair wig, composition and wooden ball-jointed toddler body with side-hip jointing ...
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Sep 26, 2014 · Bonhams has broken the record for the world’s most expensive doll, selling a rare German Kämmer & Reinhardt character doll for £242,500 ($395,750), reports ArtDaily.
