blue and white dress and hat

Item
1/5
Set

NEW SERIES OF DRESSING DOLLS, DARLING EDITH, ARTISTIC SERIES 22, U.S. PATENT FEBRUARY 20 TH, 1894

Set Comment

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.

Set Covers

Title

blue and white dress and hat

Number

22

In set

A

Item Comment

blue dress with large white buttons down the front and on a packet on her right hip, large puffy shoulders with a blue cape fastened at the chest, she wears white gloves, dress is full length, hat is blue with large white feather plume and blue ribbon. same as DARLING MARJORIE dress and hat 22 A

Type

Paper Doll

Artist

DESIGNED BY MARGUERITE MCDONALD

Size

5 x 7 1/2 in. dress, 3 3/4 x 3 in. hat