MY LADY BETTY (title on packet only)
OUR PETS DRESSING SERIES, NO 101, MY LADY BETTY AND HER GOWNS (smaller size)
please refer to the book COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS BY BLAIR & MARGARET WHITTON for a very complete listing. On pages 40-41 they discuss this series. These are the smaller size versions that were sold in brown envelopes. Each set has three dresses with three matching hats. MY LADY BETTY is set 101 and 102, WINSOME WINNIE is set 103 and 104, and DOLLY DELIGHT is set 105 and 106. The dolls are 5 1/2 in. tall. on packet RTS ARTISTIC SERIES TRADEMARK, RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS. LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK. COPYRIGHT 1894 RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS COMPY LTD. NEW YORK U.S. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH. 1894. MY LADY BETTY 102 and DOLLY DELIGHT 106 were also part of a French boxed set titled AU BON MARCHE, PARIS, 2 POUPEES A HABILLER AVEC 6 COSTUMES & 6 CHAPEAUX, COMPTOIR DE PAPETERIE
MY LADY BETTY (title on packet only)
101
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 with curls, in grey/purple undercoat with a bow to collar and red colored accents, pearl necklace, rose in her hair, arms outstretched, blue shoes, and stockings on. 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 and attached stand, ARTISTIC SERIES 101, US. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894. COPYRIGHTED BY RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS, CO., LTD
3 x 6 in. doll