Lenci
di E. Scavini Dolls 1919-2001 Italy
Lenci = Ludus Est Nobis Constanter Industria
To Play Is Our Constant
Work
Elena Scavini (Madame Lenci) and her brother Bubine König first created
a dimensional pressed felt face doll in 1919 in Turin, Italy. Early
marked Lenci dolls have a tiny silver metal button attached to the
clothing. A little later the button was enlarged and has the name Lenci
on it, over the years Lenci also used cardboard tags that can include a model
name or number and/or cotton ribbons, always with the Lenci name on them and
the bottom of the dolls foot is sometimes stamped in black or purple ink
Lenci. Lenci dolls range in size from a tiny 5" to 48" tall.
Lenci doll series and types include; 300
series children with hollow torsos, 1500 pouty series, 165 ladies or gentlemen
and 700 girls. Lenci made; Adult, Teenage and Children dolls, Bambino
bent limb babies, Mascotte dolls 9", Miniature dolls with surprised faces
9 1/2", Hard Faced; mask or flocked hard plastic. Lenci special
character dolls; Amor black cupid, Amelia Earhardt, a Googly glass eyed doll,
Tom Mix, Mozart, Mendel and Bach, Oriental dolls, Rudolph Valentino and others,
as well as accessories made of felt.
Other Lenci Type dolls were made by;
Alma, Farnell's Alpha Toys, Alexander, American Stuffed Novelty, Amfelt, Anili, Averill, Chad Valley, Celia, Davis,
Dean's Rag Book, Eros, Fiori, Giotti, La Rosa, Magis, Messina-Vat, Perotti, Pori, Raynal, Sacati of Torino, Italy and Norah Wellings.
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