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: 001613
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two sets of pocket playing cards in boxes, made in England; one set is Tom Thumb playing cards with brown paper packaging, made by Goodall and Sons Ltd.
Date: c. 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: 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: 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: 006595
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Scale for measuring developing chemicals (powder form). The body of the scale is metal, with the holders being glass and attached with thread, which is intact. The frame is missing.
Date: c. 1930s
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Item Reference: 006589
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Ceramic cheese strainer, evidently used in a dark room due to being kept with other developing tools and the developing chemical stains.
Date: 1930s
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Item Reference: 006588
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Ensign ‘The Trident’ film developer, to be used in tandem with a developing dish which would be sold with it, heavy ceramic, to develop rolls of film in a darkroom environment. residue of developing chemicals can be seen along the tool where it was left in the developing chemicals in the dish. Would continue to be produced by. In the No. 1 size, and had previously been manufactured by Butcher and Son before 1926 merger with Ensign. The registered design number was acquired in 1906, which would’ve been when this item was first put to market under the Butcher and Son name.
Date: 1930s
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Links: Explanation of use for the Trident
Item Reference: 001818
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Ensign Miniature Optiscope and slide projector set with leather travel case. The Optiscope has a metal exterior, adjustable focus lens, and is electricity-powered with a bulb still inside. Also are, still in their boxes, a heat-resistant transparent glass plate, and a filter for colour protection to be fitted over the focus lens. Also are two slides, depicting a page from a book and a photograph of a woman about to be shot from a canon as published in The Strand magazine 1897
Date: 1930s
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