We took on a shop and began to make copies of old rare dolls often buying cracked examples of the rarer dolls in the Paris flea market. Dissatisfied with the body types that were available we began to carve the wooden bodies. Now we only use lime-wood for light colour and lack of strong figuring. We always make all of our own dolls, and have never done any designs for other companies, having always wanted complete control of what we do. Our production is relatively small, for that reason, we make about 150 wood bodied dolls a year and maybe 250 other dolls, with soft bodies or all-bisque bodies. To us our dolls are still very much dolls that can be played with, undressed and dressed, the bodies are very important. We belong to the British Toy-makers Guild and got our first foreign orders at their fair selling to a large Japanese company. Soon after that we went to the New York Toy Fairs and Nürenberg Toy Fairs, many of our dolls have gone and still go to the States and we have wonderful support from our agents there.

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