Item Reference: 001583
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
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Item Reference: 001580
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: One set of plastic red travelling dominoes in original packaging.
Date: c. 1930s
Further Information: Below is 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.
Links: Red Dominoes and Green Tins Of Dubbin by David Gibbs
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: 001576
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Ephemera
Description: Tri-ang Lines Bros Ltd Toy Dealers’ Christmas Catalogue, advertising various toys for children.
Date: 1970
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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
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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: Goodall & Sons miniature patience cards
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” 1992 closing down sale for 20 pence, made in Hong Kong.
Date: c. 1990s
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