August Riedeler

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August Riedeler ( AR and ARI ) was the name of a porcelain and doll factory founded in Thuringia in the 19th century with headquarters in Königsee and Garsitz . The internationally exporting company also produced small dolls from various materials for dollhouses .

The company existed until 2006

history

The Riedeler porcelain factory was founded in 1864 and from 1872 onwards also produced dolls and doll heads from bisque porcelain . A trademark with the abbreviation ARI in a heart-shaped mark indicates the founding date 1872. Another well-known trademark was found as an engraving on the shoulder head of a doll.

In the 1920s the company expanded its production to include Nanking dolls ' bodies, rag dolls and bathing dolls with clothing.

Riedeler began manufacturing celluloid dolls around 1930 .

One of the main buyers of the approximately 1,000,000 bisque porcelain dolls produced annually was the department store chain Woolworth .

Previously known mold numbers, which were supposed to differentiate the various casting molds from August Riedeler for production, consisted of the digits 6 and 969 .

After the Second World War , during which it was switched from toy to armaments production, the family business was initially dismantled by the Soviet Union . When there were bottlenecks in the supply of raw materials after the resumption of toy production after 1945, Horst Steinmann , who had worked as a development engineer during the war and married Eleonore , a granddaughter of the company founder, began to try to develop substitute materials. So finally "[...] the first soft plastic doll in the world was invented, made of polyvinyl chloride , consisting of coal, lime and hydrochloric acid, called PVC."

From 1948 the first soft plastic doll of the ARI brand was produced.

From the 1970s onwards, garden gnomes were made from soft plastic from 10 cm to 1 m.

literature

  • 100 years of A. Riedeler doll factory . In: The toy , 1964, p. 1280ff.
  • Jean Bach: International Handbook of Doll Brands. A doll identification book , English original title: The main street dictionary of doll marks , translated by Wolfgang Hartmann, Munich: Laterna Magica, 1989, ISBN 3-87467-389-8 ; P. 107; contents
  • Peter Liebers: ARI dolls are going on a world tour again . In: Privatized. What will become of them. Reports from the new countries . Published by the weekly newspaper Die Wirtschaft. Berlin 1994
  • Rüdiger Helmboldt: Colorful dwarfs from Thuringia a contribution to the cultural history of the (garden) dwarfs. 2009. Pages 269–273.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Jean Bach: Internationales handbook of the doll brands. A doll identification book , English original title: The main street dictionary of doll marks , translated by Wolfgang Hartmann, Munich: Laterna Magica, 1989, ISBN 3-87467-389-8 ; P. 107
  2. ↑ a b c N.N .: ARI - August Riedeler, Königsee on the diepuppenstubensammlerin.blogspot.de page from April 12, 2015, last accessed on September 4, 2016

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