MY LADY BETTY AND HER GOWNS, U.S.PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894
OUR PETS DRESSING SERIES. SET 1. MY LADY BETTY AND HER GOWNS, U.S.PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894
please refer to the book COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS BY BLAIR & MARGARET WHITTON for a very complete listing. On page 41 they discuss this series. Three sets of dolls and each set was published during Queen Victoria's reign and at three different times and with three different sets of trademarks. Each set was packaged in a box with her name and an image of the doll in one of her costumes on the top cover. complete set is pictures on page 58. They were also produced in a smaller sized version with the dolls 5 1/2 in. tall and with envelopes instead of boxes. Each of these dolls have three dresses and three hats.
MY LADY BETTY AND HER GOWNS, U.S.PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894
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doll, head separate but "attached at a proper angle, onto an elongated neck, space being left under the chin to slip on the separate costume which also came with a neck long enough to allow this manipulation" page 70 of PAPER DOLLS A GUIDE TO COSTUME BY CLARA HALLARD FAWCETT, 1951. , brown hair with curls, in grey/purple undercoat with a bow to collar and red colored accents, pearl necklace, rose in her hair, arms outstretched, blue shoes, and stockings on. on reverse Tuck artistic series easel and palette trademark with BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT. PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. followed by the Tuck publishing info-obliterated by attached stand- , ARTISTIC SERIES 1, US. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894. COPYRIGHT 1894 BY RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS
5 x 10 1/2 in.