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Christmas Collection      By request�after a brief hiatus, Lawton�s again introduces a Christmas doll.
VIEW ENLARGED PHOTO	Dressed in Holiday Style Christmas Collection  9� all porcelain Edition limited to 175
What a treasure to add to your Christmas collection � this young girl dressed in holiday style. Her brown eyes and red mohair curls play against the cranberry of her dress like an old French poster. Her silk dress, copied from the pages of an 1880s fashion magazine, is a work of art in itself. She wears hand-knit stockings.

 

Lawton Library Collection      Open a book from the Lawton Library series and you�ll find an entire classic story told in the language of dolls. From Anne of Green Gables to Alice in Wonderland, from Little Princess to Rebecca, and right up to Josephine for 2005 � this collection adds a new dimension to the old stories. Each doll comes in a leather case that looks just like a book. When the book is opened, the doll and her accessories tell the story.
VIEW ENLARGED PHOTO	Josephine  Lawton Library Collection 9� all-porcelain in cloth/leather book  Edition limited to 175
Josephine, the beloved heroine of the Honor Appleton illustrations comes to life in a whole new size. Josephine was first recreated in a 12� size for a UFDC event in 1995. She�s become one of the hardest Lawton dolls to find on the secondary market. For the tenth anniversary of the first Lawton Josephine, we�re offering a more diminutive nine-inch Josephine tucked into a cloth and leather book. She still has the hand-knitted coat and felt cloche hat along with her plaid jumper and her ever-faithful Quacky Jack. We�ve added the two hand-carved Japanese dolls that Josephine called her Koreans. Each one is dressed in a tiny, authentic silk kimono.

 

Classic Playthings� Collection      A child and his or her toys � is there anything that evokes sweeter memories for us. Over the years we�ve offered favorites like Patricia and her Patsy, Katie and her Kewpie, Gabrielle and her Greiner and so many others. For 2005 we give collectors the boy they�ve requested.
VIEW ENLARGED PHOTO	Noah and his Ark Classic Playthings� Collection 14� all-porcelain  Edition limited to 175
There�s no toy Noah likes better than his wooden ark filled with animals. His favorites are the pair of crocodiles. Noah has brown hand-tied human hair and hazel eyes. He wears an English nursery suit of yellow and ecru, has cotton knitted knee-highs and brown leather shoes.

 

Coming to America      Last year Lawtons introduced this brand new collection of little immigrants with Lilla Brita coming from Sweden. The collection continues with Betje for 2005.
VIEW ENLARGED PHOTO	Betje Coming to America 9� porcelain and wood  Edition limited to 175
Betje hails from Volendam in the Netherlands. She knows the voyage on the steamship from Holland will take a long time, but she�s excited to be coming to America. Just before she left, Opa and Oma came to bid farewell and brought her the chest that had been in the family since before Opa was born. She would carry a part of the family to her new home in America. Inside the chest they�d packed her warm wool cape, her wooden skates, her Delft Tea set, her little wooden windmill and a basket of sugar hearts to eat on her journey. She�s dressed in the traditional Dutch dress and cap of Volendam and wooden klompen. Betje has blonde mohair braids and light gray eyes.

 

Merely Me Collection      This collection focuses on the wonder of childhood, with sweet faces and unforgettable characters in fully jointed nine-inch dolls.
VIEW ENLARGED PHOTO	Lightly Lily Merely Me Collection 9� porcelain and wood  Edition limited to 175
Lily wears a navy silk school dress and crisp pinafore trimmed with antique eyelet lace. She has dark gray eyes and dark brown hair. She wears black button boots over warm black stockings.
VIEW ENLARGED PHOTO	Keenly Keisha Merely Me Collection 9� porcelain and wood  Edition limited to 175
Keisha stays warm in her pink wool sweater over a cotton blouse touched with pink embroidery and a checked silk skirt. Her brown eyes and curly black hair set off Keisha�s warm brown skin.

 

Mint-in-Box Collection      Over the years collectors have often requested that the Lawton Doll Company issue some of their famous doll�s dolls as stand-alone editions. The wait is over. Mint-in-Box is a collection of these classic dolls dressed in exquisite costumes. Every detail of these miniature dolls is authentically recreated�whether it is kid bodies, tiny glass eyes, or an intricately crafted mohair wig. All the clothes are removable and all the details are accurate. Best of all, each doll is made by the finest porcelain doll makers in America and presented to you in beautifully designed boxes. These are treasures to keep forever or to give to your favorite doll.
VIEW ENLARGED PHOTO	Bye-Lo Baby Mint-in-Box Collection 4 and 1/2� porcelain and cloth Edition limited to 250
Lawtons recreates the famous Bye-Lo Baby, circa1923, with its porcelain head and hands, tiny inset glass eyes, cloth body and a faithful copy of the original batiste dress. Bye-Lo Baby comes in a baby blue oval box.
VIEW ENLARGED PHOTO	Izannah Walker Mint-in-Box Collection 6� gesso/ oil painted cloth  Edition limited to 250
Izannah Walker patented her rag baby in 1873. Since that time, no cloth doll has been more prized by collectors. Lawtons painstakingly recreates this doll out of cloth. Then the artists gesso the face and paint an individual portrait on each doll. She�s dressed in delicate cotton print trimmed with antique lace and comes in a basketweave carton.
VIEW ENLARGED PHOTO	Turned Head Kestner Mint-in-Box Collection 6 and 1/2� porcelain and leather  Edition limited to 250
Perhaps the most prolific maker of what they termed bisque-headed dolls, Kestner made turned head dolls similar to ours in the 1870. This young girl is dressed in an intricate silk dress decorated with antique trim. She has a tiny mohair wig, inset glass eyes, and perfectly scaled leather shoes. She comes on a gusseted leather body and is tucked into a velvety pink box.
VIEW ENLARGED PHOTO	Milliner�s Model Mint-in-Box Collection  6� composition and cloth Edition limited to 250
The papier m�ch� doll often called a Milliner�s Model came out around 1840. This miniature version is dressed in a crinkled silk organza dress and carefully laid in tissue and excelsior in a wooden packing crate � mint-in-box.
VIEW ENLARGED PHOTO	Greiner Mint-in-Box Collection 6� composition, leather and cloth  Edition limited to 250
Ludwig Greiner patented his papier m�ch� puppen in 1858. Lawtons recreates this doll in painted composition. The Greiner is dressed in a batiste blouse and red and yellow silk tartan frock trimmed with antique braid. She�s packed in tissue in a presentation box of marbled papers.