WINSOME WINNIE (title on packet only)
OUR PETS DRESSING SERIES, NO 104, WINSOME WINNIE 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
WINSOME WINNIE (title on packet only)
104
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 and a ribbon and bow, wearing blue and white undercoat with a white band at the waist and fancy trim at the hemline, puffy white sleeves, arms outstretched, pearl necklace, brown shoes with white flowers, blue short socks. 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 104, US. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894. COPYRIGHTED BY RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS, CO., LTD
3 x 6 in. doll