The Complete Cratchit Family - A Christmas Carol

The Cratchit Family – A Christmas Carol Collection
Condition: Pristine | Complete Signed Set of Five

Bob Cratchit comes home through the snow with Tiny Tim riding on his shoulder, and the whole family is there to meet them. This is the complete Cratchit Family from the Simpich A Christmas Carol Collection: Bob with Tiny Tim, Mrs. Cratchit, the Cratchit Girl, and the Cratchit Boy.

Each of them is bringing something to Christmas dinner. Mrs. Cratchit holds the pudding on its plate, iced and topped with a sprig of holly. The Cratchit Boy carries a carved wooden bowl heaped with red apples. The Cratchit Girl holds a candle burned low, its wax dripping down over the holder. Above them all, Tiny Tim raises his crutch in a red mitten, plaid scarf wrapped around his neck, while Bob looks up at him with a grin under a white top hat trimmed in holly.

Look closely and you'll find a patch on every member of the family. There's a tweed square on Bob's knee, calico on Mrs. Cratchit's skirt, a red diamond on the girl's pinafore, and a mend on the boy's breeches. Dickens wrote the Cratchits as a family with very little money and a great deal of joy, and these small mends tell that story in fabric. He described Mrs. Cratchit as "brave in ribbons," and there's her blue ribbon tied at the back of her dress.

Each figure was sculpted by [designer], then cast, hand-painted, and dressed in hand-sewn clothing in the Simpich doll shop. Their outfits include wool coats, a linen shawl edged in lace, a lace cap over painted ringlets, and a gingham shirt under a felt vest.