Today I have up for considerationan Antique Collectible18\" -Composition Horsman 1928 Mama Doll. This doll hasa Mohair Wig(Molded hair is under the wig), & Sleepy Eyes(They appear to beSurface Painted (Lithographed - Eyes from the 1920\'s) with eye lashes. She has a closed mouth. Her Head, Arms,& Legs are Composition. Her Body is Cloth. The mark on the back of her head reads:

Horsman Dolls

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History of Horsman Dolls

Edward Imeson Horsman (E.I. Horsman) opened a toy company in New York city, New York USA in 1865 & became a leader in the toy industry. In the early years Horsman imported dolls from outside the USA, starting in 1904 they distributed \"Babyland Rag Dolls\" made of all cloth created by Albert Bruckner. Around 1909 they used a new formula to make \"Can\'t break Em\" dolls like the Billiken, a variety of Mama & Baby composition dolls wearing wigs, molded or painted hair, sleep or painted eyes. In 1930 the Horsman company acquired Louis Amberg & Son doll company, their competitor & continued to produce some of Amberg\'s dolls notably the Vanta Baby. In October 1933 Horsman was purchased & became a subsidiary of Regal Doll Manufacturing Company, by the 1980\'s the Horsman name was sold to an Asian company which produced dolls under the name Horsman Ltd. That are today made in Hong Kong, China.

History of Composition Dolls

Composition dolls overtook the market for Bisque dolls in the early 20th century. Hailed by American doll makers a \"unbreakable\" compared to the Bisque or Porcelain Dolls. The novelty of the new material for dolls, coupled with World War I, helped to bring down the once mighty German dollaking industry & helped to make America the premier dollmaking country of the early to mid 20th century. Composition is generally a mixture of glue & sawdust. It is heavier & denser than paper mache & composition was easily molded, thus making it an excellent material to make dolls with.Composition was used to make doll bodies for many years, from approximately the late 1870\'s, long before it was widely used to make doll heads. Since the material a doll Head is made of determines the Type of doll it is, only dolls with composition Heads are referred to as Composition Dolls. Composition dolls were made from approximately 1909 through the early 1950\'s. The height of the composition market was the 1920\'s through the 1940\'s. Composition dolls, especially those with a heavily sealed or lacquered finish, are especially prone to fine cracks, called crazing. The crazing is cause by changes in moisture &temperature. because so many of these dolls have crazed over the years, crazing on a composition doll is acceptable to collectors. In the late 1940\'s doll companies finally created the first truly unbreakable dolls out of plastic. If you dropped a hard plastic doll it did not break, if you put it near a fire it did not ignite & if you got it wet (like composition) you did not ruin the finish. Plus hard plastic dolls were inexpensive. After plastic dolls wereintroducedthe composition dolls slowly faded away by the 1950\'s.

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