SUNNY SUSAN, (title on box)
LITTLE MAIDS NEW SERIES OF DRESSING DOLLS, NO 41, SUNNY SUSAN
please refer to the book COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS BY BLAIR & MARGARET WHITTON for a very complete listing. They discuss this series on page 121. It consists of four sets-SUNNY SUSAN, NO 41, SERENE SYBIL, NO 42, PLAYFUL POLLY, NO. 43, and FAIR FRANCES, NO. 44. The dolls and the dresses are not marked on the backs with names, descriptions or numbers but do contain the Tuck trademark and patent and printing info. The boxes are cardboard. PATENTED FEB.20 1894, RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS CO. LTD. LONDON. PARIS. NEW YORK, PUBLISHERS BY APPOINTMENT TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN
SUNNY SUSAN, (title on box)
41
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 wavy brown hair and blue eyes and looks front, she wears a white undergarment slip with purple ribbon accents and bows, she holds her left arm slightly out at her side and her right bends across her body at the waist, she has striped stockings and small shoes with bows. One doll has been repaired with stockings and feet added and one is missing her feet
5 x 13 in. doll