Jumeau

Jumeau was a French company, founded in the early 1840s, which designed and manufactured high quality bisque dolls.

This changed in 1867, when at the Exposition Universelle of that year, the company was awarded a silver medal, and "special mention was made of the doll's heads".

[6] By 1873, when they were awarded a gold medal at the Vienna Exposition,[4] the company was producing their own bisque dolls in their factory in Montreuil.

The award was proudly advertised on the bodies, boxes, shoes and even the dress labels of the dolls.

The firm also was regarded as an industrial success, with production figures of over three million dolls annually by the mid-1890s.