HERTWIG HALF DOLLS
Introduction | Overview | Bohne | Chocolatiere Dolls | Dressel & Kister | Goebel | Hertwig | Heubach
Historical | Japanese | Schneider | Dresser Dolls | Works Cited
Historical | Japanese | Schneider | Dresser Dolls | Works Cited
Hertwig & Co.
1864-1990
1864-1990
This was a prolific company that produced china and bisque dolls as well as a variety of knick-knacks. They made teapot drip catchers and tea-dolls and pincushion dolls, along with half dolls and dresser boxes such as the one pictured above. Some of the half dolls were of high quality, others not so much. The half dolls that required several molds are the most desirable. (Luven)
Christoph Hertwig and Benjamin Beyermann founded the company in 1864 and produced children's dolls, decorative objects, gifts as well as stoneware products and from 1900 onwards also made porcelain figures. The company survived WWII without damage. (Marshall Porzellanfabrik Hertwig)
"The factory was nationalized in 1958 and the product range was cut back to decorative ceramics only. A very interesting fact is that at the time of the nationalization there was an archive of historic showroom samples in their storage boxes with original inventory tags located on the factory premises, which were totally forgotten. This archive was rediscovered during the early 1980's and a government-owned company looted the archives and sold most of the sample boxes to different unknown private buyers at auctions in Berlin and London to raise some hard western currency for the government. Presumably, these boxes today reside in private collections (note that numerous 'rediscovered' sets sold on eBay etc. are indeed reproductions). After German reunification in 1990, the totally run down factory was closed." (Marshall Porzellanfabrik Hertwig)
Christoph Hertwig and Benjamin Beyermann founded the company in 1864 and produced children's dolls, decorative objects, gifts as well as stoneware products and from 1900 onwards also made porcelain figures. The company survived WWII without damage. (Marshall Porzellanfabrik Hertwig)
"The factory was nationalized in 1958 and the product range was cut back to decorative ceramics only. A very interesting fact is that at the time of the nationalization there was an archive of historic showroom samples in their storage boxes with original inventory tags located on the factory premises, which were totally forgotten. This archive was rediscovered during the early 1980's and a government-owned company looted the archives and sold most of the sample boxes to different unknown private buyers at auctions in Berlin and London to raise some hard western currency for the government. Presumably, these boxes today reside in private collections (note that numerous 'rediscovered' sets sold on eBay etc. are indeed reproductions). After German reunification in 1990, the totally run down factory was closed." (Marshall Porzellanfabrik Hertwig)
Introduction | Overview | Bohne | Chocolatiere Dolls | Dressel & Kister | Goebel | Hertwig | Heubach
Historical | Japanese | Schneider | Dresser Dolls | Works Cited
Historical | Japanese | Schneider | Dresser Dolls | Works Cited