Ludwig Greiner (doll maker)
Ludwig Greiner was a doll manufacturing company founded in Philadelphia in the USA in the 19th century .
history
Ludwig Greiner († 1874) was born in one of the states of the then Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation before emigrating to the United States of America in the 1830s and settling in Philadelphia. There he founded a doll production from the basic material paper mache in 1840 .
On March 30, 1858, Greiner filed one of the earliest US dolls patents . The patent related to a formulation for reinforcing the paper maché mass with fabric and was extended in 1872.
Greiner's doll heads sat partly on doll bodies by Jacob Lacmann, who himself had held a patent since 1871, and partly on a doll body patented by Mary Steuber in 1878.
After Greiner's death in 1874, his son continued the company until 1884. In 1890 the company became the property of the Knell Brothers company .
Literature (selection)
- 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. 118f. u.ö .; contents