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Birdie and her
Bleuette
14“ all-porcelain body Bleuette-- 5” porcelain head,
ball-jointed compo body Edition of 75 |
The
Young Elizabeth I
18” portrait with a porcelain torso, head and arms on
hand-carved, spring-jointed wooden lower body Edition of only 20 |
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Patience in the Pew
14” with a porcelain head and hands on hand-carved,
spring-jointed wooden body Edition of only 35 |
Baby
Steps
11” all porcelain toddler
Edition of only 15
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Tom Thumb Wedding
9” all porcelain. Edition of 75 |
Born
with a Silver Spoon
Two 9“ dolls with porcelain head and hands on
hand-carved, spring-jointed wooden bodies Edition of 50
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| Birdie and her
Bleuette - From the Classic Playthings Collection
Birdie is delighted to be the proud owner of a Bleuette doll.
She’s planning to learn to sew for her, but for now the tiny Bleuette is
dressed in a classic middy and hat of red silk trimmed with white, created
by Lawton’s own seamstresses. The perfectly scaled and replicated
Bleuette comes on an exquisite ball-jointed composition body. She has been
made for The Lawton Doll Company by Nada Christensen and features Nada’s
signature kiln-slumped glass eyes. Birdie wears a summer pleat dress
of blue and white plaid silk and a felt cloche with matching trim. Her eyes
are a warm brown and her hair is light brown. |
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| The Young
Elizabeth I - From Lawton’s Royalty Collection
Elizabeth reigned as Queen of England for 45 years,
displaying strength and devotion as she united her country following the
tumultuous years after the death of her father, Henry the Eighth. Wendy
Lawton chose the young Elizabeth for this portrait doll. She is dressed in a
heavy gown of cranberry silk satin over a petticoat and undersleeve of silk
brocade, reminiscent of the
William Scrots painting of The Princess Elizabeth (1546). The exquisite
gown is trimmed with gilt braid encrusted with pearls. Elizabeth’s eyes are
dark brown and her hair that famous reddish gold. |
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| Patience in the
Pew - From Lawton’s Classic Children Collection
The clock seems to tick slower as Patience tries to sit
quietly in the pew on a Sunday morning. Dressed in her Sunday best— a
ruffled frock of pale pink satin with a matching bonnet and pink leather
shoes—she’s reminiscent of a Maud Humphrey illustration. Patience has brown
hair and brown eyes. |
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| Baby Steps
- From the Classic Children Collection
In this tiny edition of only 15 dolls, Wendy Lawton
celebrates that precious moment when baby first toddles across the room.
Baby wears a lace-trimmed ivory batiste pinafore over a dress of blue
polka-dotted cotton with matching bloomers. Her strawberry blonde
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| Tom Thumb Wedding
- From Wendy Lawton’s Biographical Collection (New Collection!)
In 1863, a lavish, highly publicized wedding took place
between two Little People. It was the P.T. Barnum-arranged
marriage of General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren. The magazines
covering the wedding remarked that Miss Warren was 32 inches high and
weighed only 29 pounds. Her husband was not much bigger. Theirs could have
been called the wedding of the century. The event sparked America’s
imagination and a play based on the ceremony, The Tom Thumb Wedding, was
performed by community troupes throughout the country. The play eventually
evolved into scripted mock weddings featuring small children, called Tom
Thumb weddings, which were used as fund-raisers for schools and churches.
Wendy Lawton’s grandmother, Elizabeth Coats, participated in a San Francisco
Tom Thumb Wedding tableau in about 1902. She is in the back row of the
photo, second from left. The faded photo and her grandmother’s memories of
that magical day have become an important part of Wendy’s family lore. She
draws from this magical tradition to present a tiny Tom Thumb bride in a
brand new collection called Wendy Lawton’s Biographical Collection. The
blonde, blue-eyed bride is costumed in a miniature wedding gown of ivory
dupion silk and point d’espirit with a matching cathedral-length veil.
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| Born with a
Silver Spoon - From Lawton’s Triennial Masterpiece Collection
Every third year, the Lawton Doll Company pulls out all the
stops to create a decadent collection—something far more complicated than
any doll in the regular collection. For 2008, Wendy Lawton issues an
edition limited to only 50 pieces. It is called "Born with a Silver Spoon"
and features two dolls, a nine-inch boy, aptly named Sterling, and his
sister, a nine-inch girl named Amethyst. The dolls come in a burnished
cherry display armoire. Each doll can be displayed in the curved glass door
on either side. All of the clothes and accessories fit neatly inside. The
set includes two complete extra outfits, underwear, two extra pairs of
shoes, and a wide array of accessories, including two handmade amethyst and
sterling necklaces, a whistle, a pocket watch, penknife, bath salts, mirror,
books, and many more treasures. It is obvious that the mischievous Sterling
and the solemn Amethyst were born with the proverbial silver spoon! |
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