Item Reference: 006654
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Magazine
Description: Two copies of ‘Hobbies’, a weekly magazine, published by Geo. Newnes, Ltd, London. One issue dated 31 January 1931, and the other being the following week, 7 February 1931. Includes three plans or design sheets for making particular items in the magazine.
Date: 1931
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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: 006672
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Unbranded metal kazoo.
Date: c. 1930s
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Item Reference: 006671
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Bingo set with wooden board and numbered markers.
Date: c. 1930s
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Item Reference: 002183
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Wooden foldable pocket chess set, with wooden chess pieces. Line with felt.
Date: c. 1930s
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Item Reference: 001699
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Three wooden dice shakers.
Date: c. 1930s
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Item Reference: 001696
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Ephemera
Description: Mail order novelties extracts from catalogues in 1938 and 1956, from Ellisdon & Son; printed in England; published and distributed by Tobar Limited.
Date: 1938, and 1956
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Item Reference: 006645
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small sample tub of Ovaltine and a small fluted aluminum tart dish with an embossed butterfly motif on the base
Date: 1930s
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Item Reference: 001615
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: A ceramic-like doll’s head with drawn-on features, like eyes, mouth, and eyebrows.
Date: c. 1930s
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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.
