Treasures From the 1800's - Bisques Dolls

Small Antique Bisque Dolls, Treasures From The 1800's and Early 1900's

Near the bottom of this page - there is a form you can fill out to share your doll interests with others, along with pictures.

Antique Bisque Dolls 

Many early Antique Bisque Dolls were usually small dolls. Either a stiff frozen unjointed figure or joined with wire attachment or strung with string or elastic. They were manufactured as early as the 1860s and even into the 1940s.

The earlier Dolls were made of all bisque had molded styled hair, others had molded hats or bonnets. Some had "bald" heads with a tiny pate to hold a little wig. Some were modeled nude, others had molded bisque clothing. Molded and painted boots or shoes and socks were very common.


The Red Riding Hood Doll is a pink bisque.

During the 1880s, through the early 1900s, Wanamaker, Marshall Fields, and Montgomery Ward all advertised small bisque dolls. As with most baby dolls of this period, Germany manufactured and supplied the major stores in the US. Many all bisque dolls bear the mark "Germany," while others have only a number to identify.

eBay has a rather large set of listings of vintage Bisque dolls for sale, if you are interested in a purchase, or to find values, -if looking for costs, it is necessary to register with eBay.

Because they are small, many of these precious Antique Bisque Dolls have been found in boxes, tucked away with their small wardrobes. Dresses and hats made from scraps of material, lace, feathers, and even teeny buttons were made by a loving mother or a talented young girl long ago.

This little girl has over 20 tiny exquisite hats!

Wigs were usually human hair, but this particular doll has one fashioned of yarn.

This tiny girl, on the right, has a human hair wig.

The pair of babies were found in an old Christmas gift box. With them were identical matching suits of clothing.

Old cigar boxes were "treasure" boxes for children and had yielded many doll treasures.

Interested in early Kewpie and Betty Boop type dolls?...Click here! 

Because little Antique bisque dolls were small and easily handled by children....they were also easily LOST!!!! Which brings me to the second part of this article.

Click Here For a look at Some Ghost Town Dump Dolls

Click here to return to the Top of the Antique Bisque Dolls Page

Click here to return to the Antique Doll Advisors Home Page

eBay is an excellent website for "value" information about dolls, or most anything else for that matter--however, to see what something has sold for, registration is required, so if you are looking for past sales of any particular doll, please register.

Welcome to "Show and Tell" for small Antique Bisque Dolls!

We all love to share. If you have photos and information pertaining to these lovely Antique Bisque Dolls, please fill in the form below to
"Show and Tell" your favorite Bisque Doll. We all have interest in how they were located, the use of materials in their clothing and anything else you would like to share with other avid collectors.

What Other Visitors Have Said

Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...

MoMo's german character baby doll 
I am helping a friend sort through her mom and grandma's (momo) stuff. She and her husband lived in Germany after WWII and most of the antiques I've found …

Antique doll marked 1016, help me identify please 
This doll has a porcelain shoulder head, porcelain hands with red finger nails and the rest of the body is cloth filled with cotton. It is marked (engraved) …

Toy Box Baby 
The head of this baby was in my toy box when I was a child. I don't know where it came from. I always wanted to restore it. I found a 5" body with …

Old Bisque Dolls (6) 
I got these little dolls after my grandmother passed away...not sure if they were hers or her mothers. Her mother had passed away when she was an infant. …

Three little bisque baby dolls? Not rated yet
I found these teeny little dolls in a charity shop and would like to know more about them, please. They m a sir 3.5 inches high. Thanks.

Bisque doll 1930's? ID needed Not rated yet
HI folks: My mother is 90. She had this doll since she was a child (so I am thinking 1930's). Its about 22 inches. No markings. It is stuffed (not …

Tadavis  Not rated yet
Hi there! I have a doll that is approximately 3 to 4 inches tall. The doll is bisque or made of china, but I suspect bisque. It was my mother's mothers …

Beach find in Maryland Not rated yet
This small bisque doll with molded bonnet was a beach find in southern Maryland. It is similar to the two molded dolls pictured above, but the legs are …

Help me identify this doll! Not rated yet
I was given this doll as a gift 25 years ago by a client who was 98 years old. She stated she thought the doll looked like me. I have cherished it …

small baby doll Not rated yet
Our grandfather had this stored for ions in a box. My wife acquired it somehow. The doll is 7" tall, bisque head, arms and legs. The body is hollow; …

BIG EYED BABY WITH BABY TUBE FEEDER BOTTLE Not rated yet
I found this adorable ,so unique, little guy in a steamer trunk belonging to one of my mothers neighbors, She was in Kindergarten in 1891.

Click here to write your own.