PRINCE HYACINTH, PATENT NO. 23003 (British version with six costumes)
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS DRESSING SERIES. ARTISTIC SERIES IV. PRINCE HYACINTH, PATENT NO. 23003
please refer to the book COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS BY BLAIR & MARGARET WHITTON for a very complete listing. On pages 41-45 they discuss this series. consists of four different sets, Artistic Series no. IV, V, VI and VII. Published in Britain and America. The American sets have four dresses and four hats each while the British ones have six dresses and six hats. The names of the sets are also different but the images and costumes are the same.
PRINCE HYACINTH, PATENT NO. 23003 (British version with six costumes)
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, facing slightly to his left, wearing a one piece pink underwear suit with darker pink decorative circles and sash at waist, yellow pendant necklace, lace trim to cuffs and collar, left arm hangs at his side and right arm is bent at the elbow with his right hand on his waist, grey and yellow slippers, costumes come with neck attached, comes in either a blue or pink and white flat folder on reverse Tuck artistic series easel and palette trademark with BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT. PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. PRINCE HYACINTH 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. COPYRIGHT. PATENT NO. 23003. ARTISTIC SERIES IV.
MARGUERITE MCDONALD
3 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. doll