Doll's house piano
Category
Dolls' houses and furnishings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
Piano - 113 mm (length); 64 mm (width); 130 mm (height), Cylindrical piece of wood - 32 mm (length), L-shaped piece of wood - 97 mm (length); 61 mm (width)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 669247
Summary
A wooden doll's house piano, with a movable lid hinged by two metal nails. Underneath, the keys are printed in black ink on white paper pasted onto the wood. The front of the piano is decorated with a gold colour metal circle pattern, consisting of three leaves. A pencil inscription is written on the back. The bottom of the piano is missing. Found with the piano are two pieces of wood. One is an L-shape with two wooden protrusions on the thin bottom part of the L. On one side of the wide part of the L are two wooden gold colour painted 'pear' shapes. These could be the piano pedals if this piece of wood is the missing bottom of the piano. The second piece of wood is a small cylindrical piece with wide ends and four grooves cut into it, in pairs of two. Total number of items is 3.
Marks and inscriptions
On the back of the piano: '2163[stroke]8/ [ ] stroke [equals sign]/ 36'