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Antoine Bofill
Antoine Bofill was a Spanish sculptor. He was part of the animalier movement of the 19th century and included a bear mascot. Below are some examples and price guides of…
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Nikolai Ivanovich Lieberich
Nikolai Ivanovich Lieberich was a Russian animal sculptor of the 19th century who came from a German-Russian Lutheran family. He was the son of the St. Petersburg Postmaster and Hofrat…
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Berthold Nebel
Berthold Nebel (1889–1964) was an American sculptor. He was born in 1889 in Basel, Switzerland, and came to the United States with his parents when he was a year old.…
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Raimondo Puccinelli
Raimondo Puccinelli (also Raymond Puccinelli) was an American-Italian sculptor. He was born on May 5, 1904 in San Francisco , and died on May 7, 1986 in Florence. From the…
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Antoine-Louis Barye
Antoine-Louis Barye (24 September 1795 – 25 June 1875) was a Romantic French sculptor most famous for his work as an animalier, a sculptor of animals. His son and student…
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Christophe Fratin
Christophe Fratin, also known as Christopher Fratin, was a noted French sculptor in the animalier style, and one of the earliest French sculptors to portray animals in bronze. He exhibited…
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Royal Doulton Figurines
The Royal Doulton company began as a partnership between John Doulton, Martha Jones, and John Watts, as Doulton bought (with £100) an interest in an existing factory at Vauxhall Walk,…
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Steiff
Margarete Steiff (July 24, 1847 – May 9, 1909), was a seamstress who in 1880 founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, making toy stuffed animals. Born in Giengen, Germany, Margarete was the…
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Roullet & Decamps
Roullet and Decamps. Roullet & Decamps was a French toy manufacturing company operating in the 19th and 20th centuries, which specialized in automata. Founded in 1865 by Jean Roullet, the…
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Moritz Pappe
Moritz Pappe was originally called the Liegnitz Doll Factory and was founded by Arthur Pappe and Dr Curt Pappe in 1869. The company originally made dolls but by 1910 it…