MARY HOYER DOLLS

The Mary Hoyer Doll Manufacturing Company began in 1925 as a yarn and craft shop in Reading, Pennsylvania USA. Mary designed knitted goods for infants and children and later added a slim doll that could model her clothes along with a pattern book.  The doll was supplied through an agreement with Ideal Novelty & Toy company, so early dolls only bear the Ideal markings, this was the Mayfair body doll with a twist waist and a twist upper torso, although the clothing should have the Hoyer label.