DOLLY DELIGHT AND HER DRESSES, US PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH, 1894.
OUR PETS DRESSING SERIES. SET 3. DOLLY DELIGHT AND HER DRESSES, US 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. basic 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.
DOLLY DELIGHT AND HER DRESSES, US PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH, 1894.
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. , dresses are 1 inch longer to account for this. brown hair with curls, in white undercoat or slip with lace to neckline, shoulders, and hemline, outstretched arms, black shoes with blue short stockings on. on reverse Tuck artistic series easel and palette trademark with BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT. PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. followed by attached stand, then followed by the Tuck publishing info RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS, LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK. DESIGNED AT THE STUDIOS IN ENGLAND AND PRINTED AT THE FINE ART WORKS IN BAVARIA. ARTISTIC SERIES III. U.S. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894. COPYRIGHTED BY RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS CO., LTD.
5 x 9 1/2 in. doll