The Bing Brothers (Gebruder Bing)
Art Doll Company was founded by the brothers Ignaz and Adolf Bing in 1866 and
it initially manufactured kitchenware and then subsequently moved to toy
manufacturing. In 1882, the company participated in the
Bavarian State Commercial and Industrial Exposition and had the largest
selection of toys and other goods in their catalogue. The German doll company in Nuremberg was also
known as the Bing Werke and the Bing Wolfe Corporation which was the only doll
manufacturing company that continued its operations even during the World War
I. The dolls produced by the company had
the markings Bing Beauty Baby or Bing Beauty Art dolls.
The dolls created by the Bing
Brothers competed with the fabric art dolls manufactured by fabric doll makers
Lenci and Kathe Kruse doll companies. In
1928, the doll company grew and was already a huge corporation made up of 4,000
employees in its 31 subsidiaries. One of
its subsidiaries produced bisque head porcelain character dolls and this was
the Louis Wolf and Company which manufactured dolls from 1870 to 1928. The company used the trademark Excelsior and
the dolls’ marking was L.W. & Co. which
was made by Hertel, Schwab & Co.
From 1910 to 1925, the American
and Canadian rights for the Bing Art dolls was already held by the John Bing
Company, which also happens to be the agent of the Heinrich Handwerck and Kammer&
Reinhardt doll companies. Subsequently,
Max Bing took over the management of the company and the art doll section was
then known as a division of the huge conglomerate Bing Wolf Corporation. Most of the Bing Art dolls were made of
fabric which the company had perfected using the Nuremberg style of producing
toys on steel sheets for lithography . Some of the trademarks or trade names
that were recognized under the Bing company were the Sunshine Girl and Sunshine
Kid(1912), Baby Irene (1913 to 1914), Baby Darling (1915), Pitti-Bum (1922),
Baby Sister (1925), Baby Sunshine (1925), Happiness Doll line, G.B.N. (stands
for Gebruder Bing, Nuremberg), B.W., and BIN.
In the late 1920’s, several
German industries were affected by the declined of the German Mark’s
value. Thus, several companies had been
forced to sell its products cheaply overseas including the doll manufacturing
industry. The Bing Brothers Art Doll
Company suffered from several setbacks caused by the war including the 1929
stock market catastrophe which significantly reduced the demand for its toys. In 1932, the company filed for bankruptcy
thereby ceasing its doll manufacturing operations.
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