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Match Holders89 of 159Antique German Bisque Girl Doll Match Holder With Striker A German silver match holder
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    Posted 9 years ago

    kivatinitz
    (342 items)

    This is a young woman carrying a heavy basket on her shoulders. I bought it several years ago to Olga Caro in Belgrano St. I did not know anything about it till we search the backstamp (last picture). I found it in this site http://www.schafer-vater.com/schafer_vater_miscellaneous/schafer_vater_history.html . There you can find that “Gustav Schaefer and Guenther Vater founded the Schaefer & Vater Porcelain Factory in Volkstedt Rudolstad, Thuringa, Germany in 1890. Their aim was to make high quality porcelain. In 1896 the business had sufficiently grown to purchase the List Porcelain Factory at Neuhaus. By 1910 the American firm of Sears Roebuck & Company had begun to import and distribute Schafer & Vater pottery into the United States. The aim of Schafer & Vater was to produce a wide range of hard paste porcelain and was to include luxury items, figurines, and dolls' heads. They also produced soft paste porcelain in bisque items and Majolica and Jasperware were other produce lines. They produced many figural liquor bottles for distribution by pubs. In 1913 Paul Schafer had taken over from his father and, working alongside Gunther Vater, built up a successful workforce of around 200 people, using 3 kilns. They advertised the manufacture of porcelain dolls' heads.” They had done several blue nippers with comic characters. You can amuse yourself here http://www.schafer-vater.com/schafer_vater_blue/schafer_vater_blue.html . This particular subject seems to be rare because I could not find it on any web page. This particular subject seems to be rare because I could not find it on any web page. The most similar here http://www.rubylane.com/item/1137626-312/Antique-Schafer-Vater-Porcelain-Milkmaid-Figural . Mine is 10 cm high and I date it about 1910.
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