Porcelain Dolls
Doulton Nisbet
Tower Treasures
Princess Elizabeth, the Heir Presumptive
Produced as the result of a Doulton Nisbet collaboration, issued in 1978, and priced at £48.00 ($125.00) the 15" tall Princess Elizabeth doll was made to depict the Princess as a young girl of 9 years old, and was modeled on a famous photograph.
Her dress is made from a genuine Liberty print fabric, as shown by the “Liberty” label on her wrist.
The wig was specially made to represent the hairstyle of the young Princess, and is surmounted by a straw hat with flowered decoration
Princess Margaret
Also issued in 1978, and priced at £48.00 ($125.00), Princess Margaret is shown here as a four-and-a-half year old. Like her slightly taller sister Elizabeth, she also wears a genuine “Liberty” print dress, (as shown by the label on her wrist).
Her straw hat, (identical to her sister’s), was made by a leading Luton hat maker – a company that specialises in the manufacture of straw boaters, as worn by Eton scholars
Margaret and her sister Elizabeth were issued in a limited edition of only 500 dolls, of which these, (as shown by the numbers painted on the soles of their shoes), are number 468.
News
21st September 2023
Important Announcement
My dear wife, Christine, passed away on the 8th December, 2021, after 8 weeks in hospital. I was by her side, when she slipped away from me peacefully, with no pain or suffering.
Chris had been struggling with a slow decline in health, associated with a progressive, untreatable, and ultimately terminal lung disease, and finally succumbed to her old adversary, Pneumonia.
We had been friends for 55 years, together as a couple for 50 years, and married just a month short of 48 years, when she died.
This website was Chris's idea, and I did all the technical stuff, to make it work. After news of Chris's passing reached her close friends in the doll collecting world, I was deeply touched and gratified to hear their tributes to my dear wife, and I must thank them all for their kindness and support. Ultimately, it was her doll friends that gave me the courage to continue with the website.
In the months before her eventual hospitalisation, Chris had outlined a number of additions and changes she wanted to make to the website, and it is my intention to honour those wishes, and to implement the changes we had considered, over the coming weeks and months.
I must apologise to all those who have written to us via the website, only to have your emails go unanswered. Unfortunately, the email system had been hacked aroung the time Chris was going into hospital, and many emails must have been lost, as a result.
As you might imagine, I felt completely broken by Chris's loss, and it is only now, almost 22 months after her passing, that I have felt strong enough to even look at the website again.
My aim is to continue with the website, and to implement Chris's aims for her many new ideas as soon as I can. In the meantime, I have hopefully got the email system sorted out, and I will attempt to answer any enquiries as soon as I can, and to send replies with the same high degree of accuracy that a reply from Chris would have had.
From now on, I will be flying solo, whilst my co-pilot and guide will be soaring much higher, (though she is always in my heart, and in my thoughts).
My thanks to all our website visitors for your continued support
Dave (also known as Arthur), and Chris, (my lost love, Guinevere)
Christine Poulten
25th December 1949 - 8th December 2021
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