COURTLY BEATRICE (title on packet)
please refer to the book COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS BY BLAIR & MARGARET WHITTON for a very complete listing. On pages 45-46 they discuss this series. These are the smaller size versions that were sold in brown envelopes. Each set has four dresses with four matching hats. on packet RTS ARTISTIC SERIES TRADEMARK, RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS. LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK. PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. COPYRIGHT 1894 RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS COMPY LTD. NEW YORK U.S. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH. 1894. NO 107 DESIGNED BY MARGUERITE MCDONALD
COURTLY BEATRICE (title on packet)
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. comes in a brown envelope. brown hair slightly curled and long, blue headband in her hair, facing forward with both arms hanging at her sides, wearing a grey and white slip undercoat with blue ribbon crisscrossed across her chest and tied into a bow at her waist, gold necklace, bracelets to both arms, blue stockings and shoes. costumes come with neck attached, 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 RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS, LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK. ARTISTIC SERIES 110. U.S. PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894 COPYRIGHT 1894 BY RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS CO., LTD.
DESIGNED BY MARGUERITE MCDONALD
2 1/2 x 6 in. doll