ARTISTIC SERIES VI. SWEET ABIGAIL. 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 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 VI. SWEET ABIGAIL. U.S. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894.
VI
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 slightly curled and long, green headband in her hair, facing slightly to her left, wearing a one piece grey and white undercoat slip with a green sash at her waist, lace neckline, hem and sleeves, left arm reaches out, right arm hangs at her side, bracelets to both arms, pink stockings and 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. ARTISTIC SERIES VI. U.S. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894 COPYRIGHT 1894 BY RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS CO., LTD.
MARGUERITE MCDONALD
9 x 4 in. doll