Armand Marseille

Armand Marseille was a company in Köppelsdorf, Thuringia, Germany, that manufactured porcelain headed (bisque) dolls from 1885 onwards.

For fifty years the wooded countryside formed the border between the two Germanys, Sonneberg lying in the GDR.

Armand Marseille was born in 1856 in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of an architect, and emigrated to Germany with his family in the 1860s.

[4] The company manufactured bisque heads from moulds for their own dolls and for other doll-makers.

Brand names include Floradora, Queen Louise, Darling Dolly, the Dream Baby and Just Me.