Doll's house cooker
Crescent Toys
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal and wood
Measurements
Cooker - 55 mm (width); 112 mm (height), Stove - 35 mm (width); 96 mm (height), Each shelf - 39 mm (width); 30 mm (height)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668550
Summary
A metal cooker and a wooden stove (contents of Mrs Harvey's doll's house, inventory number - 665940). The grey mottled cooker has a small shelf on the upright back, with three sun ray plates and one flat plate on the hob. Beneath this is a grill space and then a large door opens on the oven, which has three sets of shelf supports and two loose flat metal shelves with a raised outline. The cooker back has three raised vertical lines on it and a hole at the bottom. The wooden stove is painted in a grey mottled colour to match the cooker. It has a tall cylindrical chimney, a flat rounded top and an oval base. At the front is a fixed door with two metal pins in it. It stands on three panel pin legs. Total number of items is 4.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs T Harvey in 1985.
Marks and inscriptions
On the door of the cooker, in a shield shape: 'DCMT/ CRESCENT' On the base of the cooker: 'MADE IN ENGLAND'
Makers and roles
Crescent Toys , maker