In this cabinet size, the Kammer and Reinhardt 101 “Marie” mold takes on a playful mode, with her newer jump rope in view.  She has blue painted eyes, smooth, even bisque, delicately painted and shaded facial features on that famous character face.  She wears her original, medium brown mohair wig in side rolled braids.  Her K*R, fully jointed body is a nice, rosy tone and has a stamped red “0” on the lower back.  Her vintage, red plaid play outfit has multi-layered undergarments and she wears antique leather shoes and woven socks.

Simon Halbig provided many examples of cultural and worldly education in the form of ethnic dolls from many lands.  Special attention was given to the Orient, just as we see here with the mold 1129 child doll, depicting and Asian girl with extreme Eastern features.  She has brown glass sleep eyes in her slanted eye cuts, pierce ears, an open mouth with teeth, and her original black mohair wig. 

The K * R 117/A "Mein Liebling" continues to be a favorite for doll collectors to this day, as this mold offers sweet character and refined features.  As it comes in a painted eye version and there is even a 117/N version with flirty eyes, open mouth and a much younger look, we have here the glass-eyed and sleep-eyed  version that seems to warrant a certain respect. This girl, in her antique navy silk mariner’s costume with matching cap, has brown glass sleep eyes, a sharp nose, closed mouth, pale and smooth and even bisque, and her antique, blond mohair wig.  (Some minor wig pulls on top left side of head at rim)

The strong molding of this Simon Halbig 949 earlier mold is complimented with its smooth, pale bisque and even color decoration. She has brown glass set eyes, a closed mouth, chubby cheeks, pierced ears and a vintage, French honey brown, human hair wig.  Her high quality, early German composition body is chunky, in the French manner, and has straight wrists. 

On the upper right arms there is a minor split and some paint loss on the wood. Dressed in an expertly made, vintage material dress with matching, fancy bonnet, she has vintage undergarments, socks and antique leather shoes.  Fine, French market doll in a darling size!  

Being one of the most beloved Heubach characters, the Coquette mold 7850 can cheer up any collection with her side-glancing, cheerful face and smile.  Her head is made of molded bisque and features either a pink or blue ribbon painted around the head, then finishing on the side of the head with a big molded bow.  This girl has the blue bow that adorns her blond, molded curls and she has a wide smile with molded teeth peeking out from between her lips.  Her body is fully jointed wood and composition  with straight wrists and she wears an antique, white eyelet dress with turquoise ribbon sash, matching her hair bow, and the color is continued with her vintage, leatherette turquoise shoes.  12" Tall.

After the First World War, you could see and hear the positive change of mood in the music and fashions that followed.  In came linear, more comfortable style as well as an upbeat sound.  Maybe that is why we are always so overjoyed to find another flapper doll, this one (14 1/2")  being the version from Cuno and Otto Dressel, or COD.  It is almost a perfect twin to the Simon Halbig 1468 version, but  this girl is incised with the COD 1469 mark.