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.   

From the Sonneberg region of Germany comes a delightful, closed mouth doll (16") for the French market with a solid dome head.  She has blue glass eyes, fine, even bisque and lovely soft coloring, and she wears a vintage blond human hair wig.  Her body is fashioned after the French composition bodies with chunky limbs and straight wrists.

She has a missing left thumb, and some touch up work by one shoulder,  and the front end of her left foot is broken off.  Her undergarments, shoes and stockings are all antique as is her vibrant red dress and bonnet.  She is priced with room to invest in body repairs if wanted. 

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!  

When German doll companies flirted with the French doll market, beautiful things happened, such as this glorious 13" Alt Beck and Gottschalk child with huge, almond shaped, brown paperweight eyes, open-closed full lips, egg-white pale bisque, a full, enfantine face shape and body silhouette, pale decoration of features and pierced ears.  Her blond mohair wig is a replacement.  Her bisque head and shoulder plate are one piece and her high quality leather body, having the initials "a s" on the chest, is firm and full as if she were meant to be a young debutant or fashion child.  Very Bru-like with the low, curved seam on the lower body and pronounced gusseting of the hips! Her lower arms and hands are of delicately posed bisque and her gusseted jointing throughout reminds us also of a child fashion from the French manufacturers.   

 One face features a red molded bisque hat with the Turkish insignia decoration on the front, and molded, short black hair peaking out from the sides.  The reverse face has the gray molded bisque cap that represents Austria, and molded, short blond hair on the sides.  From both sides you can see the molded and shaded ears shared by the two faces.  The body is a fully jointed, German composition body that is stamped with the red ink, Holzmasse mark, on the upper right rear shoulder. 

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.