A. Bazzoni of High Holborn, London advertised himself as a manufacturer of wax and composition dolls and also as the maker of the speaking doll which could say both Mama and Papa. The only known marked example of a Bazzoni doll, although with no voice box but with a simple cloth body, also has a wax over papier mâché head. Bazzoni is listed in London business directories between 1832 and 1855.
Henry Mayhew in his London Labour and the London Poor interviewed "the ingenious inventor of the speaking doll", who talked at length and with great pride of his invention which also said Mama and Papa.
In another interview with a glass eye maker, Mayhew quotes him as saying that the speaking doll maker of High Holborn gave him his largest order ever, amounting to 50, which, bearing in mind that ordinary eyes cost 5 shillings for 12 dozen pairs, amounted to a staggering amount of dolls. The talking doll maker who was interviewed by Mayhew said he only sold "rather more than a dozen (talking dolls) a year at 6.6 each."