brown dress with yellow lining, (hat is missing)
NEW SERIES OF DRESSING DOLLS, DARLING HILDA, ARTISTIC SERIES 21, 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 page 80 they discuss this series but do not have DARLING MARGERY-ARTISTIC SERIES 20 or DARLING GLADYS (same doll and outfits as MURIEL but the boxes are marked as GLADYS. It consists of four different sets, DARLING MARGERY-ARTISTIC SERIES 20 (dresses are full length). DARLING HILDA-ARTISTIC SERIES 21 (dresses are ankle length), DARLING EDITH-ARTISTIC SERIES 22 (dresses are ankle length), and DARLING MURIEL-ARTISTIC SERIES 23 (dresses are knee length), . each set comes in a white folder with her name and an image of the doll in one of her costumes on the top cover., DESIGNED BY MARGUERITE MCDONALD Published in Britain with the PATENT NO. 23003, and in America with the U.S. PATENT FEBRUARY 20 TH, 1894 but Whitton only identifies the American ones.
brown dress with yellow lining, (hat is missing)
21
E
brown dress with large puffy sleeves with ruffles, three large buckles down the front, she wears white gloves, hat is brown with brown and yellow ribbon attached with a large central buckle. (hat is missing) (dresses are ankle length), this dress is the same as dress artistic series 20 D from the American DARLING HILDA set
DESIGNED BY MARGUERITE MCDONALD
6 x 7 3/4 in. dress, 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. hat