Antique Armand Marseille Doll A.1.M 390n Made in Germany 18” Tall 1890-1900

Many of Armand Marseille dolls have AM initials plus a mold number in the marking. This doll is numbered 390n.

See all the photos for full description. Some of the clothes are torn, worn and stained.  She does not have shoes or socks.  She comes with the dress and the full undergarment.

Armand Marseille of Sonneberg and Koppelsdorf, Thüringia, Germany was one of the worlds largest and best known bisque porcelain doll head manufacturer.  Armand was born in 1856 in St. Petersburg, Russia the son of an architect and immigrated to Germany with his family after 1860.

In 1884 Marseille bought a toy factory and in 1885 he acquired a porcelain factory in Koppelsdorf, Marseille’s earliest doll mold number is 1890 a dolly face shoulder head . Armand Marseille’s empire and history in the doll world had begun. Most Armand Marseille dolls have AM initials in the marking.  See photos she is marked A1M

Many antique doll collectors will have begun collections with a Marseille doll or added one or more over the course of doll collecting. Marseille dolls are easily found, plentiful, quality made from common to rare doll molds.

1900+ Marseille doll 390 bisque socket head composition jointed body doll. Doll mold 390 a socket head doll on a composition jointed body.  The early poured bisque doll heads have an inside lip or rim where the top of the head is cut out and are fired, features are painted, then fired again.