Document collection
Playthings Past Museum
Category
Ephemera
Date
1968
Materials
Paper.
Measurements
Min - 152 mm (length); 110 mm (width), Max - 265 mm (length); 208 mm (width)
Place of origin
Beaconwood, Rednal
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662328
Summary
Documents relating to the publicity of Betty Cadbury's Playthings Past Museum. A thin cardboard folder contains six black and white photographs. The photographs are of four single dolls, one dancing couple and one of four small automata. The front of the folder has a picture of a doll wearing a blue dress. Above her is printed 'Playthings Past Ltd, Beaconwood, Rednal, Nr. Birmingham' and below 'Dolls, Toys, Automata'. The back of the folder is plain. A sheet of headed paper has a drawing of a doll in the top left-hand corner and then to the right is printed 'Playthings Past Museums, Beaconwood, Rednal, Nr Birmingham, Dolls, Toys, Automata'. A flyer has two black and white photographs at the top, one of an automaton figure smoking a pipe and the other of a doll on a swing. Below is text describing the purpose and contents of the Playthings Past Museum. A guide to the museum has a cover of thin white shiny card. On the front is printed 'Playthings Past Museum, Antique and Period Dolls by Betty Cadbury' and on the back is a note printed 'Reproduced from the Antique Collectors' Club Magazines, August and September,1968 by Baron Publishing, Martlesham, Suffolk'. The guide contains eight numbered pages of text and black and white photographs. Total number of items is 10.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs C. V. E. Benfield in January 2006.
Makers and roles
Playthings Past Museum , engraver and publisher