Doll:Empress Augusta

Few of the companies that made china heads labeled their products with identifying logos or marks. Years later, because doll collectors could not always identify the maker of a doll, they named their dolls according to their hairstyles. Some styles names derived from the famous individuals who made the style popular, people like Dolley Madison, Jenny Lind, Queen Victoria, and Mary Todd Lincoln. Collectors call this hairstyle Empress Augusta, after Augusta Victoria, the wife of Kaiser Wilhem II, grandson of Queen Victoria. The hairstyle is generally characterized by a molded black bead headband and a mass of layered curls at the back of the head, with visible comb marks throughout. Pierced ears and a modeled bodice with a black molded pendant of the German Iron Cross are also distinctive of the Empress Augusta Style.