London: A.M. Davis, n.d. ( ca. 1935). An interactive printed project for children offering cut-out images to be coloured,formed, folded, and arranged to produce a farmstead scene. The scene, itself, is represented on the cover of the cards packet. The images to be coloured and made three dimensional include the farmhouse, its garden and hedges, barn, cornfield, hay cart, pond, and figures of animals and people. This complete set was No. 756 in a series for painting and constructing. Other series (some listed on the packet) were also offered by the Davis firm, famous for greeting cards, kindergarten outline painting and embroidery, etc. The firm was represented at the 1947 British Industrial History fair. Scarce. Ref. 16648 “Hand and Eye are trained to act in unison” Twelve cards printed in black on rectos only with illustrations to be cut out and coloured, each 15.3 x 20.1 cm.; pink paper packet printed and illustrated on front and back, 16 x 21 cm.

Paris: “Les Editions Ouvrières”, 1946. With beautifully rendered printed costumes, set against an overall decorative background, to be carefully cut out for dressing the doll whose front and back profiles could be removed from the rear or lower cover. Smaller illustrations, also on the rear cover, show the completed costumes representing folk dress from Austria, Spain, Holland, Hungary Italy, Serbia, Sweden and the Ukraine. Appeared as part of the collection “Les Farfardets” directed by Edmée Arma. The “letter” laid in is from Ziguezag, the elf in charge of dressing fairies and addressed to the young girl reader instructing her to cut out costumes for the doll and enjoy the marvels of this magical suitcase. A charmer. European Paper Dolls in Vibrant Colors. Oblong stapled booklet (21 x 26.8 cm.); text on inner cover ; printed “letter laid in + 8 full page color plates with text on inner rear cover and color illustration with two doll cut-outs on lower cover.