THE BRIDESMAID WITH COMPLETE OUTING COSTUMES (title on box)
THE BRIDAL PARTY SERIES OF DRESSING DOLLS, NO 4, THE BRIDESMAID WITH COMPLETE OUTING COSTUMES
please refer to the book COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS BY BLAIR & MARGARET WHITTON for a very complete listing. On pages 55, 56, 70, 75, and 77 they discuss this series. Comprised of four sets titled,-THE BRIDE, ARTISTIC SERIES 600, THE BRIDEGROOM, ARTISTIC SERIES 601, THE MAID OF HONOR, ARTISTIC SERIES 602, and THE BRIDESMAID, ARTISTIC SERIES 603. Also discussed in the book A BIT OF BRUNDAGE on page 107 and 108 and confirmed to be done by the artist FRANCES BRUNDAGE. Each figure has four costumes with matching hats. marked on reverse with the easel and palette RTS trademark symbol, BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT, PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LTD., LONDON, PARIS, NEW-YORK. ARTISTIC SERIES NO.603. US PATENT FEBRUARY 20TH 1894 BY RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS CO. LTD. NEW-YORK.
THE BRIDESMAID WITH COMPLETE OUTING COSTUMES (title on box)
603
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. She has short brown curly hair and wears a white undergarment slip with pink accents and many ruffles, white stockings and white shoes, there is a pink ribbon at her chest and lower waste, her left arm is bent at the elbow and her right hand is hidden behind her right hip
FRANCES BRUNDAGE
3 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. doll