TUDOR TASHA Holiday greeting with two miniature cards writte

Sale 2195 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 960

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

DOLL DEFENDS REPUTATION TUDOR, TASHA. Holiday greeting with two miniature cards written as her characters, the Cranes, plus two pencil drawings for a magazine article. Christmas card inscribed and signed by Tudor with a reproduction of her manger scene on the cover. One miniature holiday card measuring 40x30mm with an original watercolor illustration of a girl in winter coat holding a muff, signed "Captain and Mrs. T. Crane." With miniature envelope with wax seal. A second similar envelope contains a miniature ALS by Melissa Dove Crane, 40x73 mm, folded into 4 pages. Both envelopes laid into two slits on the inside of the card. Drawings: Squirrel at the window 105x140 mm; Sleeping cat under a tea cozy 112x170 mm. Both with parchment overlays with red pencil printer's notes. Vermont, 1979

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a charming miniature watercolor by tudor with greetings from her famous doll characters, the Cranes. The letter by her doll Melissa Crane concerns an article about Tudor in the December 1979 issue of Early American Life magazine written by the recipient of these cards. "In your article on Mrs. Tudor I read with pain your reference to me as one who reads `racy French novels' . . . were you in my position would you not blush with dismay at being designated as a reader of risqué books?" The drawings in this lot were created for the article, a copy of which is included.