Doll's house vacuum cleaner
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
1970 - 1979
Materials
Plastic and metal
Measurements
31 mm (width); 107 mm (height); 70 mm (depth)
Place of origin
England
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663527
Summary
Doll's house sized, upright vacuum cleaner (contents of 1970s doll's house, inventory number - 663517). Painted yellow metal base, which is chipping to show a grey base. It has a black plastic handle with a black and grey checked bag which is no longer attached to the handle. It also has two small black wheels.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs Joyce Howard-Monks in 2010. Part of the contents of the ‘Hobbies’ doll’s house – inventory number 663517 - made by the donor’s father, Ronald Graham (b.1902), for his two grandchildren Lynn Pick (b.1964) and Dawn Lawton (b.1966).