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  1. Doll by Armand Marseille, Image 1.

    Armand Marseille

    Doll, c. 1920

    Bisque porcelain, leather jointed body

    15 in (38.1 cm)

    NFS

  2. Doll Head by Armand Marseille, Image 1.

    Armand Marseille

    Doll Head, 1900-1910

    Bisque porcelain, glass

  3. Doll by Armand Marseille, Image 1.

    Armand Marseille

    Doll, c. 1894

    Bisque porcelain, kid leather

    NFS

  4. Doll Head by Armand Marseille, Image 2.

    Armand Marseille

    Doll Head

    Bisque porcelain

  5. Baby Doll Head by Armand Marseille, Image 2.

    Armand Marseille

    Baby Doll Head, c. 1910

    Bisque porcelain

Armand Marseille was born in 1856 in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of an architect, and emigrated to Germany with his family in the 1860s. In 1884 he bought the toy factory of Mathias Lambert in Sonneberg. He started producing porcelain dolls' heads in 1885, when he acquired the Liebermann & Wegescher porcelain factory in Köppelsdorf. In 1919 the firm merged with Ernst Heubach but they separated in 1932. The combined firm was known as the "Vereinigte Köppelsdorf Porzellanfabrik vorm. Armand Marseille und Ernst Heubach".[2][3] Maximum production was 1000 dolls heads a day. Production continued to around 1930. The company manufactured bisque heads from moulds for their own dolls and for other doll-makers. They never made the bodies but brought them in from other manufacturers.[5]

Mould 390 and mould 370 are the most common. 390 was a head mould that was fitted to a composition body; 370 had identical features but was a head and shoulders mould that fitted to a stuffed leather (kid) body. This mould was used for over thirty years. The dolls are stamped with a variety of marks that usually contain the initials A.M.[4]

Armand Marseille made a large variety of baby dolls, dolly-faced child dolls and character dolls. Brand names include Floradora, Queen Louise, Darling Dolly, the Dream Baby and Just Me.[4] The 1894 Floradora design came in various sizes from 23 cm (9.1 in) to 107 cm (42 in).[1]