Paper scrap
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, paper, metal and photograph.
Measurements
Box - 228 mm (length); 130 mm (width); 35 mm (depth), Each photograph - 150 mm (length); 102 mm (width), Wood - 43 mm (length); 30 mm (width), Each piece of paper (min) - 20 mm (length); 8 mm (width), Each piece of paper (max) - 210 mm (length); 8 mm (width), Each cut-out (min) - 20 mm (length), Each cut-out (max) - 45 mm (length), Each coin (min) - 25 mm (diameter), Each coin (max) - 30 mm (diameter)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 664613
Summary
A wooden cigar box containing miscellaneous items. Inside are the following items; three coins, two pennies 1918 and 1907 and one halfpenny 1905; five National Trust colour photographs of Sudbury Hall and interiors with children dressed in costume; one piece of wood with two rebates; nine narrow pieces of card with pink spots (possibly glue); seven small paper black and white paper cut-outs consisting of two figures and five pieces of foliage. A piece of paper says, 'Sudbury Hall Ring Mike Bishop for details regarding the enclosed'. The wooden 'Romeo Y Julieta Habana, de Alvarez y Garcia cigar' box has a coloured picture, paper edges and a hinge. The box is lined with white paper with a coloured picture on the lid and inside, depicting, on the lid, Romeo and Juliet and a picture of a castle by a lake with a floral surround. Total number of items is 25.
Marks and inscriptions
Lid of the cigar box: 'Mrs James Pickford/ (great aunt)' Lid of the cigar box: 'Mary Pickford' Inside the lid of the cigar box: 'Dorothy Pickford' Base of the cigar box: 'Mary's'