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VICTORIAN LOWBROW MOURNING DOLL:
Mrs. Lovett Victorian Mourning Doll
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Mrs. Margery Lovett
Mrs. Lovett became involved in a passionate affair with the Demon Barber named Sweeney Todd and
later became his accomplice. He had murdered many of his own customers and for a while had been using abandoned
crypts in order to hide the corpses. After a while, he ran out of room and needed a new way to dispose of
his murder victims. Enter the lovely Mrs. Lovett.
They discovered a disused underground tunnel leading from the cellar of Sweeney’s Barber shop,
which ran beneath St Dunstan's Church and the burial crypt, finishing up under Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop,
making it an ideal business partnership.
One writer described her pie shop this way: "One of the most celebrated shops for the sale of veal and pork
pies that London had ever produced. High and low, rich and poor, resorted to it; its fame had spread far and
wide; and at twelve o'clock every day when the first batch of pies was sold there was a tremendous rush
to obtain them."
The write continued,"Oh, those delicious pies. There was about them a flavour never surpassed and
rarely equaled; the paste was of the most delicate construction, and impregnated with the aroma of
delicious gravy that defied description."
Sweeney Todd worked very quickly on his murder victims to avoid rigor mortis,
disjointing the limbs and severing them from the body, even taking time to remove the skin,
which was unusable for pies.
The victim was then dressed out like a deer, and all of the meat
having been stripped from the bones, was put to the side for later. It was the vital organs that
was ground up for the delicious pie fillings. The fresh meat would be boxed for delivery to Mrs. Lovett
for later use.
When Mrs. Lovett was finally arrested, she was in the process of serving some of her
mouth-watering pies to herever-present customers and it was then that they learned the actual contents
of their delicious pies.
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Mrs. Lovett is 15 inches tall, from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet.
She has articulated arms and legs.
Mrs. Lovett as well as her costume was completely hand-stitched,
no sewing machines were used.
Mrs. Lovett's dress is vintage
green and gold fabric trimmed with vintage white lace.
Her slip is vintage linen and the hem is trimmed in vintage lace.
She wears a vintage black button with a diamond in the center around her waist.
The entire doll was hand-stitched from cotton fabric, her
face was hand-painted using acrylic paints,
and the body is stuffed with 100% clean polyestor fiber fill.
This particular doll has been accessorized with a lovely auburn tight ringlet wig.
Each doll comes with a set of elegant hang-tags
that were specially made for this years batch of dolls.
Daguerreotype frame not included.
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Order by ITEM #DOLL-4507
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Copyright © MADAME TALBOT. All rights reserved.
This doll has been registered with the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington, D.C.
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