Item Reference: 001607
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Ephemera
Description: Assorted sweet and bubblegum wrappers, including Matlow’s Chews, Trebor Black Jacks, and Bazooka Joe.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 001604
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Brooke Bond picture card album on “famous people from 1869-1969,” illustrated by Angus McBride, with words by Virginia Shankland, acquired for free with the purchase of Brooke Bond Tea and Teabags. The album features some cards collected, displayed above the information of the ‘famous person’ though many remain empty.
Date: 1970s
Further Information: Collected cards were intended be glued into the photo album above the relevant information, however this would mean forgoing unique information on the rear of the card.
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Item Reference: 001582
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: A wooden figure of a town crier wearing a grey coat with red and yellow details, carrying a handbell and a script with the words “Oyez, oyez, oyez!”
Date: c. 1970s
Further Information: The word ‘oyez’ derives from Anglo-Norman linguistics and translates to ‘hear ye’, commonly utilised by town criers, especially in medieval England and France. The term continued to enjoy heavy use in English courts until the eighteenth-century. Oyez is still utilised in the opening patter of sessions of the U.S. Supreme Court, amongst various federal courts.
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Item Reference: 001576
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Magazine
Description: Tri-ang Lines Bros Ltd Toy Dealers’ Christmas Catalogue, advertising various toys for children.
Date: 1970
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Item Reference: 006638
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Toy gumball dispenser with clear plastic hopper, and red and yellow base mechanism. Locking mechanism to rear.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 001646
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Majorette 214 “Container” Chambourcy Yoghurt model lorry.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 001632
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Metal Dinky Toys Bedford van, red paint peeling that shows the metallic material beneath, made in England.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 001629
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Plastic Matchbox towing truck, Superfast No. 74 Toe Joe, green with yellow interior, made in England.
Date: 1972
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Item Reference: 001627
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two plastic snowstorm globes; made in Hong Kong.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 001626
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Submarine toy, made from red, grey, and white plastic; made in Hong Kong.
Date: c. 1970
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