Lenci doll

They typically have intricately made wool and organdy clothing, adorned with elaborate felt flowers, hats, and/or accoutrements.

The Lenci company produced not only high quality dolls, but luxury goods, toys, puppets, and household wares, including decorative ceramics that were primarily sold in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

No cost of time or money was spared to achieve the most exquisite design elements of their product lines and brand.

Top illustrators and designers, including Marcel Dudovich, were hired to sketch new styles for doll models and home goods.

From 1939-44, under the helm of the Garella's, manufacturing turned to war-related goods made of wool, including gas masks, blankets, and military uniforms.

Under the direction of The Garella Group, Lenci products were streamlined in an effort to be more profitable and in line with the modern progress of the toy trade.

There is no exact date of the switch, so one would assume it was a gradual process through the mid 1970s, when there was a distinct change now referred to as the "Later Lenci Period" of manufacture.

In 1978 Beppe Garella (son of Pilade) introduced a line of "reproduction" Lenci dolls, using the few head molds that were salvaged from the basement of the factory.

Of the two dolls in the Judges' Lodgings museum in Lancaster, England the boy is in a burgundy cardigan, and the girl is in a blue hat and coat.

She married Enrico Scavini in 1915, and he included felt doll manufacture in the Lenci business - one that was primarily concerned with ceramics.