Doll

Doll historians and collectors consider Maison Huret in Paris one of the more exclusive makers of French Fashion dolls, doll costumes, and doll accessories. Adelaide Huret first made dolls with porcelain heads in the early 1850s, but the firm is best known for the bisque-head beauties of the later 19th and early 20th centuries. Historians also credit the firm with many inventions and innovations that improved its dolls' wood bodies and joints. By 1861 Adelaide Huret had developed and patented a malleable material derived from rubber, (called gutta-percha) which the firm used for doll bodies, as well as a mechanism that made moveable heads possible.