Author: mbeaugrice

Item Reference: 001582
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: A wooden figure of a town crier wearing a grey coat with red and yellow details, carrying a handbell and a script with the words “Oyez, oyez, oyez!”
Date: c. 1970s
Further Information:  The word ‘oyez’ derives from Anglo-Norman linguistics and translates to ‘hear ye’, commonly utilised by town criers, especially in medieval England and France. The term continued to enjoy heavy use in English courts until the eighteenth-century. Oyez is still utilised in the opening patter of sessions of the U.S. Supreme Court, amongst various federal courts.
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Item Reference: 001880
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: One set of plastic red travelling dominoes in original packaging.
Date: c. 1930s
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Links: A story written by a U.S. veteran with details on a set of these pocket dominoes recorded as one of his most treasured possessions during the Second World War in 1944.

Item Reference: 001579
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Flocked bobble-head dog made for car parcel shelf, brown with yellow eyes, in lying-down position, well-loved.
Date: c. 1960s
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Item Reference: 001578
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two miniature dice, one plain wood, one green.
Date: c. 1940s
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Item Reference: 001574
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: One set of miniature playing cards with galleon ship design backing, without packaging.
Date: c. 1930s
Further Information:  Bears a strong visual resemblance to Item 001573, sans packaging.
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Item Reference: 001573
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: One set of linen finished miniature patience cards in original brown paper packaging, with galleon ship design backing, from Goodall & Son.
Date: c. 1930s
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Links: More about Goodall & Son.

Item Reference: 001572
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two miniature cannons, made from wood and cast iron.
Date: c. 1960s
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Item Reference: 001571
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Brown wind-up plastic truck, made under the Buddy L line of miniature vehicles in 1981, acquired from “Raggity Ann’s” closing down sale for 20 pence, made in Hong Kong.
Date: 1981
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Item Reference: 001570
Category: Two Toy Bears
Format: Artefact
Description: Two well-loved teddy bears; the larger one with amber safety eyes, plastic nose, and pink stitched mouth; the smaller one with brown safety eyes, plastic nose, and black stitched mouth.
Date: c. 1960s
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