ARTFUL ALICE, doll, title on box
LITTLE DARLINGS NEW SERIES OF DRESSING DOLLS, ARTFUL ALICE
box is marked RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LTD., LONDON, PARIS, BERLIN, NEW YORK, MONTREAL. PATENTED FEB. 20TH 1894. ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN. doll and the costumes are marked PUBLISHED BY APPOINTMENT TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN. PATD. FEB 2OTH 1894. RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LTD.LONDON, PARIS BERLIN, NEW YORK AND MONTREAL. DESIGNED AT THE STUDIOS IN NEW YORK AND PRINTED AT THE FINE ART WORKS IN SAXONY. Numbers and titles on the box lid only, info from the book COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS BY BLAIR & MARGARET WHITTON and the collection of Shirley Fischer online catalog. The same doll and dresses also seem to belong to MERRY MABEL OF THE SAME SERIES. See the Maurine Popp collection online sale 2196 photo under set covers
ARTFUL ALICE, doll, title on box
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. doll with short curly brown hair and a central part, she has two purple bows in her hair, she stands with her left arm at her side and her right bent at the elbow with her right hand at her chest, she wears a green dress with a darker green pattern of leaves, her stockings and shoes are dark green. the dresses come with an elongated neck to allow them to slip under the chin of the doll.
13 in. tall