Item Reference: 001857
Category: Stationery
Format: Artefact
Description: Metal hand-operated embossing machine, used by Lewisham public libraries. Features wooden handle and cast iron body, which has previously been painted, though enamel is now peeling. Decorative floral pattern.
Date: c.1940s/50s
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Item Reference: 001660
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Four-wheeled toy pram with metal frame and spoked metal wheels. Handle missing
Date: 1940s
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Description: ‘Put and Take’ brass spinning top game.
Date: c. 1940s
Further Information: The game achieved great popularity in the First World War period amongst British troops. The games bears a similarity to the traditional Jewish game of Dreidal, played during Hannukah.
Links: More about the game’s wartime popularity.
Item Reference: 002191
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: One tin box full of Meccano accessories.
Date: c. 1942
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Item Reference: 002182
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Aluminium Milbro catapult with leather sling; patented 1945.
Date: c. 1945
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Links: History of Milbro within the catapult/slingshot scope.
Item Reference: 001702
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Meccano construction toy screwdriver.
Date: c. 1940s
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Item Reference: 001688
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Three sets of Waddington’s Lexicon card game; one set in blue packaging, and two sets in red.
Date: c. 1940s
Further Information: The low-grade of the cardboard could potentially be due to war-time, or post-war, rationing.
Links: In-depth history of the ‘Lexicon’ card game.
Item Reference: 001612
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Assorted playing cards, including three decks of incomplete poker cards, one set of “Happy Families” cards depicting animal characters, and another set of “Cheery Families” depicting human characters.
Date: c. 1940s
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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: 006640
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Seventeen wooden toy building blocks, mostly with letters of the alphabet printed on them, but one with part of a picture printed on it. Some blank sides have pencilled letters added.
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