I recently posted this picture in hopes that someone would be able to tell me where it was from.

I’m very pleased to say that yesterday Elaine K was able to identify it as coming from “The Princess Paper Doll Book” by Saalfield in 1939. Thanks to Elaine’s information I was able to find pictures of the set online. In fact there is a set preserved at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney donated by its former owner. Here is a link to it.
As The Queen has just turned 90 years old I think it is nice to be able to share this.
There is a laser cut reproduction of this book available on eBay but I don’t think it has all the outfits as it differs slightly from the one I saw on the museum website. Or it may just be that the eBay seller has not shown all the images.
I had thought that the dress was Coronation robes but I had not realised that they were for a child doll because of the large size.
So thanks to the Doll Detectives out there another mystery solved.
Case closed.
Very interesting paper dolls and the outfits too!
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Since I posted this Naomi has bought a set of these dolls so soon I can show more of it.
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So happy you solved the mystery. What a beautiful paper doll set! I recently posted about paper dolls from bygone days, too, but this one is new to me.
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It was to me too although we knew that there were paper doll sets of the British royals.
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