Category: Toys and Games Collection

Item Reference: 001589
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Striker football scoreboard in original packaging with all its contents, including 20 names of world teams and user manual, acquired from “Raggity Ann’s” closing down sale for 20 pence.
Date: c.1980s
Further Information:  The scoreboard features several former countries such as East and West Germany (reunified in 1990) and Yugoslavia (disintegrated in 1992 to become separate states). Holland is also presented as a country, as opposed to a region of the Netherlands.
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Item Reference: 001587
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: “The Amazing Dancing Charlie” cardboard puppet of Charlie Chaplin with original packaging and instructions, made in England.
Date: c. 1950s
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Item Reference: 001586
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Metal milk churner styled money tin with removable lid.
Date: c. 1920s
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Item Reference: 001585
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two doll’s hats, made with cotton-based fabric, one is white, the other is blue with white details.
Date: c. 1990s
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Item Reference: 001584
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Cup and ball game in original packaging, made by John Millman’s Traditional Toys and Games.
Date: c. 1980s
Further Information:  Cup and ball is a traditional children’s game that has existed for centuries, around the globe. It achieved great popularity in early nineteenth century England.
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Item Reference: 1583
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Gilbert Harding’s The Last Word party game, with original box and its contents, made by Pepys Party Games.
Date: c. 1950s
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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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