Vintage Simon and Halbig Doll on Stand

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A vintage doll with a bisque head, having glass eyes and hand painted features, wearing a blond wig with curls. The back of her head is marked, ‘Simon & Halbig, 117, 58, RFM 88’. Mounted to a bisque body with articulated bisque arms with hands. She wears a pink gingham dress with mother-of-pearl buttons and a black velvet waist sash, matching her shoes. Mounted on metal stand. Simon & Halbig was founded in 1839, they began making dolls from 1869 in their two porcelain factories in Gräfenhain and Hidburghausen, near Thuringia, Germany. In 1920, S & H was bought by Kämmer & Reinhardt, who continued to produce dolls until 1932. Sometime after the factory became known as Keramisches Werk Gräfenhain.

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15CIN205-332