Wooden box
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and glass
Measurements
Box - 120 mm (length); 77 mm (width); 45 mm (height), Each marble (min) - 14 mm (diameter), Each marble (max) - 34 mm (diameter)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663910
Summary
A wooden box with a hinged lid and metal catch. The lid is decorated with a colour illustration on paper of a girl carrying a white duck, a bag and a basket. She wears a blue bonnet with red trim and striped blue and white stockings. Inside the box are 23 marbles - six transparent marbles with opaque swirls inside; four transparent marbles; five opaque marbles; five transparent and opaque marbles and three opaque marbles. Total number of items is 24.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Bentley in July 1972.
Marks and inscriptions
Inside the lid: '2.6/ 1.[]/ 2.6/ 2.8'