Collection
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper, cardboard, steel, metal and thread
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 936730
Summary
Green cardboard box (DUN/TOY/263, a), lid missing, 'The Wolsley unshrinkable women's white wool bodices, short sleeves'. Contains (all inventoried separately): a small plain pair of steel scissors; a cardboard strip with three hooks and seven eyes stitched in place; a collection of paper items including envelopes, some containing scraps, cards and postcards, a calender, a book sleeve, cuttings, a watercolour, notepaper and children's decoupage (?) pictures (for scrap books?).
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).