Lawton Dolls is pleased to present our 2008 Collection:
 

Birdie and her Bleuette - From the Classic Playthings Collection

14“ all-porcelain body
Bleuette-- 5” porcelain head, ball-jointed compo body
Edition of 75
$895.00

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.

Born with a Silver Spoon - From Lawton’s Triennial Masterpiece Collection

Two 9“ dolls with porcelain head and hands on hand-carved, spring-jointed wooden bodies
Edition of 50
$1995.00

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!

The Young Elizabeth I - From Lawton’s Royalty Collection

18” portrait with a porcelain torso, head and arms on hand-carved, spring-jointed wooden lower body
Edition of only 20
$1895.00

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.

Patience in the Pew - From Lawton’s Classic Children Collection

14” with a porcelain head and hands on hand-carved, spring-jointed wooden body
Edition of only 35
$895.00

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.

Tom Thumb Wedding - From Wendy Lawton’s Biographical Collection (New Collection!)

9” all porcelain.
Edition of 75
$695.00

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.

Baby Steps - From the Classic Children Collection

11” all porcelain toddler
Edition of only 15
$595.00

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 curls and blue eyes are picture-perfect.

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