Vintage Doll Collecting – Engel-Doll Doll Companies
Engel-Doll has been in business for over 100 years. And 'the oldest factory of dolls in its singular place in the Red, Bavaria, Germany.
Engel-dolls Doll produce almost all types of pop-out small playable vinyl dolls to decorative dolls in original German costumes, nostalgia valuable collectible artist dolls made of porcelain dolls in limited editions. The company also manufactures a wide range of clothes for dolls and accessories. A very important fact aboutThe Angel Doll lines pop and accessories is that all they have done in Germany, and the meeting of the quality of German products are known throughout the world.
In the late 19th century, domestic workers in the city Rodental gather input from their subcontractors located in the urban world of toys, Sonnenberg. Puppets are usually closed. The majority of workers in the factories they worked in their room.
The first doll factory is located in Roden MonchOctober / November 1896 by Edmuch Knochenhauer and his wife, Emilie. Together they began to work in one room in the house of his father, but soon the space has grown and moved into a house in Rothinestr 7 They moved into their own factory, built in 1908 Langewiese 6
The first major success of the Company Knochenhauer Edmund was the little princess dolls are sold mostly by artists from Hamburg. Their next biggest export customers are companies from Sonneberg, which is the oldest toy in the cityworld.
Knochenhauer Edmund died in 1934. Edmund's son, Otto and his mother had run the company, which has 30 employees and outworkers had.
After the Second World War, Otto Knochenhauer and his wife, Helga new pop production with a mark of letters "I", with a crown on them. Most deliveries go to wholesalers and exporters in the years up to 1948 Sonnenberg
Three most important pop factories located in Germany. E 'state:
or E.Maar & Sohn in 1910
or three men in 1920
O Zapf in 1931
The material changed over the years to be cast components, papier mache, casting components, porcelain and rubber hard plastic and vinyl. Hard plastic and vinyl are materials of choice for the production of pop today.
With the death of Helga Knochenhauer, Otto has retired. His son, Lothar, was a lawyer and was not interested in the pop business. Knochenhauer Otto died in 1985.
January 1, 1976, was in Helmuth Engelcompany rented it for three years. Helmuth Engel has worked with the puppets to life. After his childhood in school, he began to M Drei-pop business that one of the largest companies pop in Germany, at the time envisaged. After 25 years working for the Drei-pop business M, Helmuth Engel decided to start his own company.
Helmuth Engel Knochenhauer lead the company in 1976, and at that moment, a new brand is designed. The mark was an angel with a crown placed in an oval. In 1979,Helmuth Engel Knochenhauer bought the company and the company moved into a larger building at Monchrodener Str 55 on the main road in Rödental, located near the old plant. The company's name comes from Edmund Knochenhauer changed to "Helmut Engel.
Helmuth daughter Suzanne joined the company in 1983. In 1992 Suzanne Engel bought a portion of the collection angel. Mark Engle, the youngest son of Helmuth was the designated successor of Helmuth Engel. He joined the company in 1989. Thecompany to a company to change the name of "Angel Doll GmbH." Mark Engel is now head of the company as sole director.
Source: Engel-Doll Online
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