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Category
Toys
Date
1980
Materials
Plastic case containing individual audio cassette tapes, paper inserts and card index sheet
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672693
Summary
A set of twenty six audio cassette tapes from the Story Teller series manufactured by Marshall Cavendish. Each individual tape comes in a plastic case with a folded paper insert that has colour drawings from the stories it contains on the front, its sequential number in the series on the front and the spine and a list of the stories contained on the tape on its folded section that sits in the rear of the case when inserted. The full set of tapes are house in a small plastic suitcase together with a card index that provides a list of the stories contained on each individual tape. Note that for tape number one in the series is missing but its case and paper insert are present.
Provenance
Manufactured by Marshall Cavendish in 1980. Purchased by The National Trust via ebay on 26th August 2020 as part of the Collecting Cultures Exploring Childhoods project.