Category: Toys and Games Collection

Item Reference: 006652
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: View-master toy slide viewer, unboxed. Manufactured by Sawyer’s Europe, made in Belgium. Also, six View-master reels of stereo pictures: Peter Pan; Disneyland; Bus Bunny; Once Upon a Time; A Day at the Circus; and Cinderella. Reel images for the fiction tales are created with a plasticine material, then photographed to appear three-dimensional.
Date: 1950s
Further Information:  The reels were most likely collected over a period of time; Disney created a line of view-master compatible reels for several decades.
Links:  Disneyland viewmaster reels and Disney character reels produced for viewmasters.

Item Reference: 006651
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Quixi Toy Cinema Projector, in original box, with two films, also in original box. One labelled ‘6. Acrobatics’ and one unlabelled.
Date: 1936
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Item Reference: 006650
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Hollow plastic model of Snoopy with airbrush painting.
Date: c. late 1960s
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Item Reference: 006649
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Waddington’s Jack Straws game, in original box with instructions.
Date: 1965
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Item Reference: 002103
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Hand puppet, fabric body, plastic head and hands, with a felt neck tie. Depicting the character a king with rosy cheeks.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 002101
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Green wooden barrel-shaped kazoo, with painted instructions. Made in the USA. Plastic endcap on one side.
Date: c. 1980s
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Item Reference: 02099
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Green plastic Scooby Doo miniature fruit machine with paper stickering. The reel features Shaggy and the KFC logo. Offered in partnership with KFC as part of a kid’s meal promotional deal. Features a keyring attachment.
Date: 1999
Further Information:  Other toys in the promotion were the ‘Spinning Crypt’, ‘Pull Back Cart’, and ‘Gravestone Revealer’. There had been a previous collaboration between KFC and Scooby Doo in 1997.
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Item Reference: 002098
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: An assortment of children’s tricks/party favours. 5 Magic Snake pellets in packet and plastic back, made in Japan. 1 cardboard peashooter with candycane pattern, and assorted projectiles. 1 green party horn, with plastic mouth piece.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 002097
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Wooden model cabinet with medallion detailing and accompanying brass ornaments and accessories. 8″ x 5″. Would have likely appeared as part of a dining room scene, if as part of a dollhouse. The rear of the cabinet has an incision, perhaps suggesting it hung on a wall at some point.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 002096
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: ‘Teen Skipper’ McDonalds Happy Meal Toy, in partnership with Mattel. Corduroy detailing on overalls. 4 1/2 inches high.
Date: 1998
Further Information:  The doll was originally mounted on a heart-shaped piece of plastic and its hair was straight down its back.
Links: Original look of doll with promotional leaflet.