Gottschalk Dollhouse Miniatures
The early European dollhouses were each unique, constructed on a custom basis by individual craftsmen. The industrial revolution changed all that. Factories began mass-producing toys, including dollhouses and their furnishings. A major German company in the trade was the Gottschalk Werke GMBH.
In The Beginning
In 1865 Moritz Gottschalk founded a bookbinding shop in the small town of Marienberg, which would be in Communist East Germany a century later. Like many isolated towns, the company produced various consumer products, including toys and dollhouses. In 1875 the railway came to Marienberg and the factory grew larger and larger as an export market developed. England, France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and America. Soon, Gottschalk dollhouses could be found all over the world. In some capitals there were showrooms of his products and in the USA there was an agency of his firm. Moritz Gottschauk’s dollhouses were world famous.
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