Miscellaneous doll's house items
AR
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, plastic wicker, cotton, synthetic fabric, felt, lace and metal
Measurements
Matchbox - 54 mm (length); 20 mm (height); 37 mm (depth), Each skittle - 25 mm (height), Hansom cab - 40 mm (length); 15 mm (height), Basket - 57 mm (length); 20 mm (height); 28 mm (depth), Basket lining - 50 mm (length); 25 mm (width), Each book - 8 mm (width); 11 mm (height), Ball - 10 mm (height), Each doll (min) - 40 mm (depth), Each doll (max) - 52 mm (depth)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 667791.1
Summary
Part of a collection of doll's house nursery furniture and dolls (contents of Mrs Harvey's doll's house, inventory number - 665940). The furniture and dolls consists of the following items: A purple and black cardboard box, originally containing safety matches with a label on the top with manufacturing details. The matchbox contains a game of skittles consisting of six plastic skittles and a small red plastic ball. The skittles are coloured green, white, yellow, blue and red. A small metal hansom cab pulled by a metal horse. This item is broken in two. A wooden and paper wall clock. The clock is paper with a gold coloured edging. The time is twenty-five past nine. The clock is fixed to a octagonal red painted piece of wood. Below the clock is a vertical piece of wood with a paper illustration of the pendulum. The clock is stuck to the acid free tissue by a sticky label on the back. Three paper books with red covers. Two of the books are blank, but one has writing inside. Two plastic dolls, a boy and a girl. Both have painted and moulded facial features and painted and moulded brown hair. Their arms are jointed. The boy is wearing a green felt hat with a white synthetic fabric T-shirt and black felt shorts. His shoes and socks are painted red and black. The girl doll is wearing a synthetic material dress, with white shoulder straps. Her dress is striped in red, white, blue, yellow and green. Like her brother, her shoes are painted. On her back is inscribed inside a triangle 'AR'.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs T Harvey in 1985.
Marks and inscriptions
On the label on top of the matchbox: 'SAFETY / MATCHES / Average Contents 30 / One of a range of good products in straightforward / packs which have been developed for the / International Group, and are guaranteed to give / you top quality and value for money. / Made in USSR / International Stores Group of Companies, / Ocean House, Bracknell, Berks RG12 2LZ' Inside one book: '[nutch] man / a boy / And / A' Inside one book: 'I wet / flump / man / [onb] / dog [own] / d A' On the back of the girl doll, inside a triangle: 'AR'
Makers and roles
AR, maker