Miscellaneous items
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper, plaster, glass, metal, rubber, cotton, plastic and wood
Measurements
Drumstick - 210 mm (length), Pin - 305 mm (length), Feeding bottle - 70 mm (length), recorder - 330 mm (length), Photograph - 65 mm (width); 140 mm (height), Moulding - 50 mm (width); 40 mm (height), Jigsaw - 38 mm (width), Each Meccano piece (min) - 8 mm (width), Each Meccano piece (max) - 62 mm (width), Each crochet piece (min) - 260 mm (width), Each crochet piece (max) - 320 mm (width), Each collar (min) - 360 mm (width), Each collar (max) - 480 mm (width)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 669411
Summary
A collection of objects. A sepia photograph of 'A class forty years ago' depicting nine children in very poor clothing with a background of railings. A gilt coloured piece of moulding, possibly plaster. A glass feeding bottle, doll's house size, with a red rubber teat which is perished. A piece of brown coloured jigsaw. Sixteen Meccano brackets and one rectangular three sided Meccano plate and one round ended plate. A long thin metal pin with an upturned sharpened point. One wooden drumstick. One blue plastic recorder. Three cream coloured crocheted collars. Two lengths of white crochet. Total number of items is 30.