Antique All-Bisque Half-Bisque Dolls Makers Types incl. Kewpies / Scarce Book

Description

Nearly 350 black-and-white photographs illustrate with complete in-depth captions, examples of antique all-bisque and half-bisque dolls.
ALL-BISQUE AND HALF-BISQUE DOLLS
by Genevieve Angione, Thomas Nelson & Sons (Canada) Limited, 1969.
One of the most comprehensive studies ever done on the subject, this early out-of-print book is a scholarly survey of antique bisque dolls from all periods, the 1850s to Occupied Japan.  “A working knowledge of production methods and materials and terminologies is given in some detail for the benefit of those who have no personal contact with the manufacture of the items.  Anyone who is working with ceramic today is asked to bear in mind that the information and methods detailed here pertain to old German production and not to advanced modern materials and operations.”
This book is a pictorial guide to bisque and half-bisque dolls and covers by chapter:  The Ceramic Field; Manufacturing Processes; Production Methods; The Products; China; Porcelain; Parian; Half Dolls; All-Bisques; French; French-Type; Dressed French Type; Frozen Charlottes; Old White; Bonnets; Men and Women; Swayers and Nodders; Animals; Old Stiff Necks; German Swivel Heads; Gebruder Heubach; Goebel; Kling; Limbach; SWC; King Kestner; Molded Clothes and Hair; Infants; Boot-Black and Yellow; Black Boots; Yellow Boots; Candystore Dolls; Precolored Bisque; Detective Story; Louis Amberg & Son; Kewpies and Their Competitors; Post-War Names; Bye-Lo Baby; Kallus; Orsini; Flappers; Moving Heads; Immobile Teenies; The Bonn Dolls; Modern Originals and Reproductions; Japanese; Nippon; Morimuma Bothers; Occupied Japan; Instruction and Care; Record Keeping; and Bibliography.  There’s a wealth of information in this invaluable guide, which will assist both the novice as well as the advanced collector, dealer, or historian of antique bisque dolls.
6.5” x 8.75” hardback with dust cover in very good+ condition.  357 pages.
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