Cracovian doll

A doll from the beginning of the 20th century from Adam Szrajer's Factory of Dolls and Toys in Kalisz. The factory was founded in 1884 by Jakub Fingerhut, the future father-in-law of Adam Szrajer (1873-1934). Initially, the Kalisz factory produced dolls with bisque heads and wooden bodies on ball joints. Kalisz was under Russian partition at that time, therefore products from by that time are ofte…