COURT BALL COSTUME & CROWN ( title on reverse)
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.
COURT BALL COSTUME & CROWN ( title on reverse)
IV
B
red, yellow, and dark grey shirt, with white at the neck, gloved left hand, dark grey pants, red and yellow decorative accents on shoes, costume has attached neck to fit under head. hat is dark grey with a yellow central buckle holding large red feather plumes
MARGUERITE MCDONALD
4 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. costume 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. hat