A Rare Grecon Pair of Miniature Dolls of Swimmers on a Wooden Base made in Germany in the 1920s

A rare Grecon miniature pair of Swimmers on a wooden base made in Germany in the 1920s.  The cloth dolls are made of wool-bound wire with cotton faces, embroidered features and woollen wigs were made in Germany in the 1920s.  They are hand numbered '22' on the  base.

Grecon was the trade-mark name used for the production of miniature dolls and doll's house dolls and was registered initially by Grete Cohn (1894-1991) in Berlin in 1920.

Many of the early dolls were stamped to their wooden bases with D.R.G.M. Grecon. In May 1936, aged 41, Miss Cohn fled Nazi Germany to England and initially settled in Streatham High Road, London, resuming production of her dolls.  The trademark was registered in England in 1940. She moved to Brighton & Hove in the early 1960s.

4."/10cm tall.