Make New Friends Collection

Remember the old song, Make New Friends? That’s the name of The Lawton Doll Company’s newest collection. Many doll collectors have fallen in love with an old French friend, Bleuette. Because of her long, rich history, hundreds of patterns and costumes have been produced for her over the decades and are still being offered.

Wendy Lawton decided to create some new friends to join the old. With original Lawton faces and classic American character, these four girls — Darla, Fanny, Bleu-Belle, and Felicity Jane — are exactly the same 10 and 5/8 inch size of Bleuette. Like all American girls, they enthusiastically follow French fashion and are not above asking to borrow Bleuette’s patterns for their own trousseau. Instead of Bleuette’s composition body, however, the Lawton girls have beautiful hand-carved, spring-jointed, painted wooden bodies.

Darla - 2005

Doll: 10 5/8” wood and porcelain

Edition limited to 250

Retail Price $795

Darla’s face is wreathed in happiness. She’ll bring joy wherever she goes. She has light gray eyes and auburn human hair braids. Her pink silk drop-waist dress is trimmed in antique lace. She wears hand-knit stockings.

Fanny - 2005

Doll: 10 5/8” wood and porcelain

Edition limited to 250

Retail Price $795

Blue-eyed, blonde Fanny is solemn and sweet. She’s dressed in a navy wool serge middy trimmed with silk. Her wig is mohair. Fanny wears hand-knit stockings.

Bleu-Belle - 2005

Doll: 10 5/8” wood and porcelain

Edition limited to 250

Retail Price $795

African-American Bleu-Belle is stylish in her red melton jacket and cap over a plaid jumper. Her corn-row-braided wig is handmade of mohair in the Lawton workshops.

Felicity Jane - 2006

Doll: 10 5/8” wood and porcelain

Retail Price $795

Felicity Jane wears a delicate batiste nightgown, matching peignoir and rose felt slippers, and has blue eyes and auburn curls. (Click here for a close-up image!)

Felicity Jane is eager to sample the costumes fashioned for each season. The fashions are sold separately and will also fit Bleuette and friends.

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