PRINCE CHARMING (title on reverse)
THE FAIRY TALE SERIES OF DRESSING DOLLS. ARTISTIC SERIES X. 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 46-51 they discuss this series. consists of three sets, Artistic series no. VIII, IX, and X Published in Britain and America. The American sets are marked on the reverse U.S. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894 and the British as PATENT NO. 23003 comes in a folded white folder with a picture of a boy in blue on the cover
PRINCE CHARMING (title on reverse)
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pink body suit with purple, red, and yellow decorative accents, puffy shoulders, purple cape attached at the left shoulder with a gold jeweled necklace, dagger on gold belt at waist, he holds a white slipper in his right hand, costume has attached neck to fit under head. hat is a gold jeweled crown with large pink feather plume.
5 x 8 in. costume, 2 1/2 x 2 in. hat