Untitled
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
1970 - 1979
Materials
Chipboard
Measurements
90 mm (width); 31 mm (depth); 69 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663533
Summary
A doll's house size fireplace that looks handmade, made from chipboard (contents of 1970s doll's house, inventory number - 663517). It has a simple base and front, with two square shelves on the base and a small centre shelf. It has a painted fire on a piece of cardboard glued to the back. The glue on the back is starting to chip off.
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).