Marionette part
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal and modelling clay
Measurements
Each hand (min) - 40 mm (width); 120 mm (height), Each hand (max) - 40 mm (width); 150 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663899
Summary
Puppets hands made for and used by the ‘Lilliput Marionette Theatre’. Four marionette hands with metal frames covered in modelling clay and painted flesh colour. One left and right set are in a darker flesh colour, the other set is lighter. A metal hook protrudes from the end of each. Three of them have a thin black cord threaded through the centre of the palm. Total number of items is 4.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr E Hellawell in 1982.