ARTISTIC SERIES V. PRINCE DARLING. PATENT NO. 23003
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS DRESSING SERIES. ARTISTIC SERIES V. PRINCE DARLING. 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. The English sets have the names of the dolls/costumes on the backs.
ARTISTIC SERIES V. PRINCE DARLING. PATENT NO. 23003
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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, facing slightly to his right, wearing a one piece white underwear suit with lace at neck, four buttons down chest, and a blue sash at waste, left arm hangs at his side and right arm is bent at the elbow with his right hand reaching out, blue shoes, 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. followed by the Tuck publishing info RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS, LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK.COPYRIGHT. ARTISTIC SERIES V. PATENT NO. 23003
MARGUERITE MCDONALD
3 3/4 x 9 in. doll