The Lawton Collectors Guild Chartered in 1989, The Lawton Collectors Guild has been the source of information and inspiration for Lawton Collectors for twelve years. Membership is $50.00 and includes the following:

• Membership Card

• 4" Mini Mannequin Doll

• Mini Mannequin Doll Cloisonn� Membership Pin

• Four issues of The Lawton Collectors Guild Quarterly

• The opportunity to buy the Lawton Collector's Guild Exclusive- Haute Couture

Like the exquisite dressmaker's mannequins of more than a century ago, the Mini Mannequin can be draped in fabric to represent the full size fashions of the day.  These tiny mannequins were sent around the world as ambassadors of haute couture- of the highest fashion.  Relive those days in miniature.     4" Hand-painted porcelain head on a carved wooden torso with jointed wooden arms on a wooden mannequin cage skirt form.

The Christmas Legends Collection

	The Legend of the Christmas Rose �2002 Doll:  14" Porcelain Edition Limited to 250
This ancient Yule legend tells the story of a shepherd girl who longs to visit the Christ child, but has no gift to bring. Bitterly disappointed she begins to weep. Seeing her tears, an angel brushes aside the snow and touches the ground. A delicate rose- the very first Helleborus Niger "Christmas Rose"- pushes its way through the snow and is lovingly carried to the tiny babe.

The Classic Playthings� Collection

	Nola and Her Nurse Doll �2002 Nola: 14" Porcelain Nurse Doll: 6" Composition and Cloth Edition Limited to 250
Classic Playthings� always features a girl with her beloved doll. During the dark days of the World War, joy comes to Nola in the form of her cloth-bodied composition nurse doll.  Nola,  whose name is taken from the famous WW I era song, wears a wool coat and the huge hat that marks the era.  Her doll is composition and is dressed in a recreation of the famous Bluebird costume of Red Cross WW I nurses.

 

Tiny Treasures Collection

	Electa Grace �2002 Doll: 7" Wood and porcelain   Edition Limited to 250
There's nothing we love as much as opening a box and finding a treasure. Tiny Electa Grace fits into an exquisite curved burlwood case with just enough room below to hide secrets and treasures. Her dress of sage green silk is trimmed with a delicate pointed lace that was made in France nearly ninety years ago.

Merely Me Collection

	Precisely Paloma �2002 Doll: 9" Wood and porcelain Edition Limited to 250
Paloma twirls her skirts anticipating the excitement of the fiesta dance.  Her gauzy white dress has tier upon tier of cotton lace.  Paloma shyly asks that we remind you that she can also wear all of the clothes in the Lawton Emporium.

 

Passionate Pursuits Collection

	The Bookworm �2002 Doll:  9"  Wood and Porcelain Edition Limited to 250
At a petite 9" tall, this bookworm perches atop a resin book stack as she opens her favorite book to read. She wears a pink checked box-pleated silk  dress copied from a 1909 McCall's pattern #2615.  Her French drawers are trimmed with antique cotton eyelet.  She, too, can wear fashions from the Emporium.

Lawton Library Collection

Alice in Wonderland �2002 Doll: 9" Porcelain and Wood Edition Limited to 175

     Wendy Lawton believes in telling stories with dolls, but with this edition of The Lawton Library Collection, you only need to crack the cover on the leather book box and Lewis Carroll's enchanting story of Alice unfolds. Our heroine wears the traditional Tenniel Alice dress with an organdy pinafore trimmed in black couching. Her exquisite silk white queen dress and crown from Through the Looking Glass are included. The Pink Flamingo stands at the ready for a game of croquet, but you'll have to look closely to see the tiny hedgehog hiding in a cubbyhole of the book.

     Collectors know Wendy Lawton as a doll maker, but she's spent many years crafting words as well.  A much-published writer of magazine articles, Lawton 's very first middle grade juvenile fiction series releases from Moody Press (Chicago) in April 2002.  Wendy Lawton's mission statement has long been "To tell stories with porcelain and paint pictures with words."  In Daughters of the Faith, she deftly combines art with the written word.

     "Mary Bunyan and Harriet Tubman, the real life girls who've formed the centerpiece of these stories,  come alive as dolls," says Wendy Lawton. "I'm excited about telling their stories in both porcelain and words."

     What could be more fun than playing dolls?  The Lawton Emporium offers fashions and accessories to fit all the 9" inch wooden-bodied Lawton Dolls.  A beautiful wooden armoire created in conjunction with the Bombay Company is available by Special Order only from The Lawton Collectors Guild to house the collection. Just like the turn-of-the-century Emporiums, each dress comes beautifully packaged in tissue lined dress box.  The hats come in a hat box and the shoes in tiny shoe boxes.

        E-01  White Underclothes
       E-02  Ecru Underclothes
       E-03  Nightgown and Cap
       E-04  Plum Wool Coat and Hat
       E-05  China Blue Afternoon Dress
       E-06  Blue Wool Middy and Tam
       E-07  Houndstooth Coatdress
       E-08  Paper Doll Dress
       E-09  Lace Party Frock and Hat
       E-10  Caracul Hat and Muff
       E-11  Pink Ankle Tie Shoes
       E-12  Black Mary Janes
       E-13  Black/Red Boots
       E-14  Black/Bone Boots
       E-15  Navy Tie Shoes
       E-16  Tan Tie Shoes
       E-17  Pearl Mary Janes
       E-18  9" Faux Marble Dress Form
       E-19  Faux Marble Hat Stand
       E-20  Wire Hangers / Set of 6
       E-21  Housekeeping Frock and Pinafore
       E-22  Traditional Folk Dress
       E-23  Silk 'n' Lace
       E-24  Frothy Pink
       E-25  Straw Hat
       E-26  Black Felt Hat
       E-28 14" Faux Marble Lady Dress Form

      Armoire available from the Lawton Collector's Guild by Special Order only  - Call (209) 632-3655