Description (EN)
A tool disguised as a book.

Marks, numbers, imprints – the small inscriptions that carry the life of objects.
This volume gathers them, orders them, makes them legible.

More than 2,000 entries: manufacturers, series numbers, dates, fragments of description.
A system through which anonymous objects begin to speak.

What appears at first as a collector’s manual unfolds as something else:
a quiet archaeology of production, circulation, and memory.

Each doll becomes an index.
Each mark, a trace of origin.

A reference work – and, in its own way, a catalogue of coded lives.

Kurzbeschreibung (DE)
Ein Bestimmungsbuch für deutsche Puppen mit über 2.000 Marken, Seriennummern und Begriffen.
Zeit, Hersteller und Modell lassen sich unmittelbar zuordnen.
Ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug für Sammler – präzise, systematisch, erschöpfend.

Details

216 pages
ISBN 978-3921844212.
3. Ausgabe (erweiterte Ausgabe)

See also

Sonneberg as a former global hub of doll production reveals how even childhood was industrially manufactured, circulated, and staged.

World War I disrupts the continuity of German doll production, showing how history enters objects through material, scarcity, and rupture: