Convention / Event Dolls

Lotta Crabtree

First Lawton Collectors Guild Convention

Distributed at the Wagons Ho Reception, Lotta is 14" tall with brown eyes and beautiful carrot-colored curls. She is dressed in a delicate stage dress of ecru cotton tulle, festooned with swags of ruching and trimmed with silk rosettes over a hoop skirt and eyelet pantalets.

She has a matching bonnet and wears handmade pink leather shoes. She is packaged in a custom-designed carton with her playbill papered on the front and a carrying handle and ribbon-tie closure.

Included accessories are as follows:

-A velvet-covered monogrammed miniature scrapbook filled with miniaturized photos and memorabilia of Lotta's

-Nightgown and nightcap

-Suede mules (slippers) made at workshop

-Complete traveling outfit and miniature copy of 1850 California Magazine

Working miniature feather fan

-Handmade leather button boots, black stockings and tiny buttonhook

-Canvas and leather trunk to hold all of Lotta's accessories

-A tiny porcelain doll on a cloth body sculpted by Wendy, dressed in lace with silk ribbons and packed in a wallpaper covered box with a tiny label.

Edition of 125. Retail Price $395

Through the Looking Glass

Second Lawton Collectors Guild Convention - 1995

Through the Looking Glass is dressed straight out of the Tenniel illustration. Wendy chose the Disney coloration for Alice; deep blue and bright white touched with pink to set off her blonde delicacy. Alice is 16" tall with porcelain head and hands on a thirteen-joint wooden body.

The following souvenirs accompanied Alice at the 1995 Lawton Collectors Guild Convention:

-A porcelain-faced silk flower pin (attached to the name badge)

-A wooden hand mirror, engraved with the convention logo and date

-A bone china tea set, hand-painted with forget-me-nots by The Lawton Doll Company. The convention logo and date is fired onto the base of the teapot, creamer, sugar bowl w/lid, two cups and saucers.

-Alice's Pig Baby. Remember the Duchess' screaming baby in Alice in Wonderland? Alice took the baby to save it from the Duchess and to quiet its screams. As the screams turned to snorts and the snorts to grunts, Alice looked down to see that the baby had turned into a pig. "If you're going to turn into a pig, my dear," said Alice seriously, "I'll have nothing more to do with you. Mind, now!"

Edition of 180. Retail Price n/a. 

Josephine

1995 UFDC Regional 2N Conference

Josephine wears a dainty white dress with blue hand-embroidery at the neck and tucking at the hemline, with a lace-edged chemise underneath. She wears slouch socks and brown leather shoes. Her sash is blue and white striped silk from France. The additional clothing available to those who purchased the Companion Piece are a hand-knit white 'popcorn' stitch coat, matching white felt cloche hat, and underdress with a white bodice and tightly pleated red plaid skirt. A matching hanky is tucked in the coat pocket and the hat is trimmed with the plaid.

Also included is Josephine's light blue party dress, complete with a hand-embroidered scalloped hemline and faggoting at the waist to hold the blue silk ties. Her special shoes are made of black leather and tucked perfectly in the gathered pocket in the trunk's lid.

Quacky Jack is appropriately dressed in his best powder blue sailor suit with a white sailor's cap. Josephine stands at approximately 12" tall and is all-porcelain.

Edition of 360. Retail Price n/a.

Tangerine Kwanzaa / Tangerine Velveteen

(Special Redux Editions)

1996 Doll and Teddy Bear Expo East

Tangerine Kwanzaa is a "redux" of the last remaining Kwanzaa dolls from 1994.

Tangerine Velveteen is a "redux" of the last remaining Velveteen Rabbit dolls from 1993.

Both are dressed in Mary Engelbriet's playful "Tea Garden" fabric with a white cotton pique blouse, handmade black leather sandals and matching green straw hat.

Summer Days

1997 First Lawton Collectors Guild Open Day

A fitting tribute to The Lawton Doll Company's 1997 Open Day, Summer Days is dressed in a flowery chintz print of yellow over a ruffled underskirt. Her wide-brimmed bonnet and rose-red shoes complete the ensemble. Summer Days is all-porcelain and stands 14" tall. Only 100 were made.

Edition of 100. Retail Price $395.

Beatrice Louise

The Adventure on the Orient Express Luncheon, August 11, 1998

UFDC National Convention, New Orleans, LA

Beatrice Louise is a petite 9" tall on a hand-carved, spring-jointed wooden body. With coppery red hair and freckles sprinkled across her nose, she wears a hunter green linen coat and hat over a pleated dress. Exquisitely cobbled black leather ankle boots complete her ensemble.

A luggage set consisting of a leather train case and a round leather hat box, both adorned with stickers from Beatrice Louise's journey on the Orient Express, was also made available. Inside the luggage is a navy linen suit jacket to complete the pleated dress Beatrice wears, a velvet-covered scrapbook, a hand-embroidered sea foam green batiste nightgown, a one piece teddy, ecru stockings and a pair of burgundy leather shoes.

Edition of 310. Retail Price n/a.

Waiting for Harvest Moon

Waiting for Harvest Moon, the special event doll of the Triennial Guild Gathering, "Shine on Harvest Moon," held in Turlock, California, September 22-24, 2000.  Only 9" tall, with porcelain head and hands on a fully jointed, hand-carved wooden body, "Waiting for Harvest Moon" anticipates a turn-of-the-century almond harvest in the San Joaquin Valley. She comes with her empty almond crate. . . waiting.

Limited to no more than 175 dolls.  Available only to those attending the event.

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