Erna Meyer — Maker's Marks & Identification

Country: Germany

Specialty: Poseable dressed dollhouse dolls

Era: 1940s–present

Biography

The Erna Meyer firm produces flexible dollhouse dolls with wire armatures and hand-painted stockinette faces, dressed in detailed period clothing. They are a staple of mid-century and modern German dollhouse scenes.

Maker's Mark

Identify by the small oval paper or foil label, often attached to the foot or sewn to the clothing, reading "Erna Meyer" with "Made in Germany." The hand-painted stockinette faces and bendable bodies are also characteristic.