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Re: Doll Electric Vertical
« on: September 02, 2019, 10:37:55 pm »
Always liked these and wouldn't be surprised if I had bid against you on this one  ;)

I have this text saved from a few years back from a Mamod Forum member in NY about the Bing-Wolf Dolls. I wonder if Danny or Scott can add any more history?

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As far as I can establish, Bing Werke formed a conglomerate with other toy manufacturers in the early 1920s. This included Kammer and Reinhardt and Louis Wolf and may have been the result of the German hyperinflation.

Also around this time, Bing were sued by Kthe Kruse for copying her dolls. In fact, they even advertised them as an "Imitation of the Kthe Kruse Doll". The suit went back and forth, but Kruse won in 1925, presumably at considerable cost to Bing. There's a pic of a Bing doll below (I'm thinking of suing them myself for copying my expression after I realized I hadn't won the engine). In 1928, Bing merged with Louis Wolf and become Bing-Wolf, and of course, the Wall Street crash followed in 1929 causing more trouble. Bing-Wolf were bankrupt by 1932.
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