ARTISTIC SERIES VII. COURTLY BEATRICE. 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 41-46 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 VII. COURTLY BEATRICE. U.S. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894.
VII
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, blue headband in her hair, facing forward with both arms hanging at her sides, wearing a grey and white slip undercoat with blue ribbon crisscrossed across her chest and tied into a bow at her waist, gold necklace, bracelets to both arms, blue 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 VII. U.S. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894 COPYRIGHT 1894 BY RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS CO., LTD.
MARGUERITE MCDONALD
3 1/2 x 9 in. doll