Item Reference: 001672
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: “Taxi” board game, in an original cardboard box with a booklet on rules and playing instructions, cards, dice, and various accessories; published by Ariel Productions Ltd.
Date: 1950
Further Information: ‘Taxi!’ continues to be manufactured and marketed into the 1970s, with aesthetic changes.
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Item Reference: 001671
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small plaster dog ornament, hand painted.
Date: c. 1950s
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Item Reference: 001670
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small sugar-coated China cat ornament, cracked and broken.
Date: c. 1950s
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Item Reference: 006646
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two wooden toy rolling pins and a small wooden chopping board. The board is not contemporary with the rolling pins and was a promotional item for Taylor’s Port
Date: 1950s
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Item Reference: 001618
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Ephemera
Description: Gifted conjuring trick of a donkey puzzle, depicts two donkeys and two clowns, found in Shredded Wheat cereal from the late 50s to the early 60s.
Date: c. late 1950s – early 1960s
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Item Reference: 001587
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: “The Amazing Dancing Charlie” cardboard puppet of Charlie Chaplin with original packaging and instructions, made in England.
Date: c. 1950s
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Item Reference: 1583
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: 006642
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two wooden yo-yos, complete with string.
Date: 1950s
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Item Reference: 001655
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Penny toy in the shape of a German tinplate bear, with a mechanism to have the bear drinking a beverage, made by CKO Kellerman.
Date: c. 1950s
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Item Reference: 001651
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Toy musket made from wood and string.
Date: c. 1950s
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