Are all Sasha dolls made by the Gotz company?
No. In 1965, Sasha Morgenthaler contracted with both the Gotz company in Germany and the Frido company in England to produce her dolls. The Gotz dolls are marked with circles and “Sasha Serie” on their backs and heads; the English dolls are not. There are many differences between them that I won’t go into here, but in 1970, the Gotz company ceased production of the dolls, and the Frido (later Trendon) continued to produce the dolls until 1986 when they closed and the Doggarts, who ran the factory, retired. In 1995, the Gotz company signed an agreement with the Morgenthaler family to again produce Sasha dolls. These dolls are easy to identify because not only are they marked with the three concentric circles on the back of the torso (except for the very first few that were produced) but are also marked on the head ’94. (1994). The Gotz company produced the dolls until 2001 when the Morenthaler family pulled the license because of disagreements about how the dolls should look and be made
