Set Comment 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 |
green and red jacket with brown skirt, suitcase and hat
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Item Comment green jacket with red squares and fringe accents, skirt and boots are brown, she carries a brown suitcase in her right hand, ht is brown with a large greed ribbon held by a central gold buckle, two white feather plumes,
Size 5 1/4 x 10 1/2 dress trimmed, 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. hat Categories |
green dress with large yellow collar, purple ribbon and hat
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Item Comment green dress with large yellow collar, purple ribbon and hat, hat is straw with flowers
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pink top with blue stripped dress, doll and hat
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Item Comment pink blouse with blue striped dress, white lace at neckline, cuffs and across top of blue dress, she holds a doll cradled in her left arm, ht is straw at the base with a large blue and yellow ribbon tied into a bow around a pink top,
Size 6 x 9 1/2 in. dress, 5 x 2 1/4 in. hat Categories |
PLAYFUL POLLY (title on box)
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Item Comment 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.
Size 3 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. doll Categories |
purple coat with fur trim and hat
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Item Comment purple coat with fur trim, in her left hand she carries possibly some skate blades or a small purse
Size 4 1/2 x 3 in. hat Categories |