Simon & Halbig existed between 1869 and 1939 in Germany. Possibly later.
The tinted and untinted bisque shoulder heads with molded hair and delicate decoration are typical of the prodigious output of fine quality dolls produced by this manufacturer. Kid-bodied shoulder heads originally made in the 1880’s followed closely in the French tradition, with large often paperweight eyes, pierced ears and heavy brows.
Mouths can be open or closed. Simon & Halbig registered several new ideas including those operated by a lever, movable eyelids, the use of thread for eyelashes and glazing the neck of a socket head doll to reduce friction between the neck and the body socket.
Simon & Halbig made dolls heads for many other companies including C M Bergmann, Carl Berger, Kammer & Reinhardt, and SFBJ
MINIATURE TWIN SIMON & HALBIG BISQUE HEAD SEWING DOLLS IN PILLOW. Each with weighted blue glass eyes, open mouth and blonde hair, and five piece composition body, wearing blue silk dress with under skirts for sewing tools, sitting in a pink and pale blue satin pillow with flowers, ribbons and lace, dolls 13cm (5in) tall, together with a S&H bisque head doll in original white baby swaddling and papoose. Sold for £400 at Bonhams
A Simon & Halbig black 1079 DEP child doll for the South American Market
with large brown sleeping eyes, pierced ears, an original ‘piccaninny’ style black mohair wig tied in ribbons, jointed wood and composition straight-legged body, original Mardi Gras Carnival cream and pink frock with lace, net, ribbon and gold braid trim, underclothes and white shoes, with a Bebé Juan doll box, the lid label printed with a winter scene –13in. (33cm.) high (slight nibbles to top of eye rim, eye lid paint flaked off and box with some damage) Sold for GBP 300 at Christies
German Simon Halbig K R Doll. Eyes: rocker, blue. Body: composition. Hair: wig, blond. Head: porcelain. Clothing: dress, bonnet, slip. 26″ tall. VGC. Sold For: $200 at Specialists of the South, Inc.
SIMON & HALBIG BISQUE DOLL, H 27″:With composition body, fully-jointed, with movable tongue, and sleep eyes. Marked to the back of the neck: Simon & Halbig, 126-22. Sold For: $275 at DuMouchelles
Large Antique Heinrich Handwerk Simon & Halbig #7 Bisque Socket Head Doll With Glass Sleep Eyes, Open Mouth, PIerced Ears, Jointed Composition Body. Measures 33″ tall. The doll need some TLC, her original Mohair Wig need to be restyled, she need to be cleaned. Her eyes are still working. Her original clothing is in poor condition, a shoe is missing. She would be a good winter project / restoration doll. These large dolls are hard to find. Heinrich and Minna Handwerck dolls were produced in Waltershausen, Thüringia, Germany beginning in 1876 until they were purchased by Kammer & Reinhardt in 1902 after Heinrich Sr. passed away at the young age of 44. After 1921 Heinrich Handwerck Jr. re-founded the factory in Gotha near Waltershausen. K & R continued to produce the Handwerck molds until at least 1932, between that time period they added “oHG” to the marking. Handwerck’s bisque doll heads were designed by Handwerck, but produced by Simon & Halbig and are of high quality and fine workmanship which continued under the K & R ownership. Heinrich Handwerck is probably best known for their Bébé dolly faced bisque head child dolls and babies, kid or composition jointed bodies. Sold For: $100 at
Charleston Estate Auctions
Simon & Halbig 1159 Lady Doll. A desirable doll with a molded “adult female” torso fully jointed composition body (old repaint). Exceptionally fine facial details with raised eyebrows, silk eye lashes, a smiling expression about her open mouth with four china teeth. Bisque is excellent, however she does have a number of wig chips under her wig at crown area. Dressed in an elaborate outfit (some distress to silk trims) with what appears to be her original light brown human hair wig. Original brown glass sleep eyes. Head is free of hairlines and eye chips.
Dimensions: 26″ T. Sold For: $850 at Dan Morphy Auctions
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