Item Reference: 002019
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Selection of miniature Christmas cracker toy stored in a green Golden Virginia tobacco tin. The toys feature a large assortment of miniature dice and small plastic accessories, some of which are small board games. Aside from the tin, there is no branding on any of the artefacts.
Date: c.1970s
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Item Reference: 002012
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Folding toy binoculars. Light teal plastic casing that folds out to reveal the lens. Features a focus adjustor. Black and pink plastic detailing. The plastic is quite light and the overall construction is not especially durable.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 001596
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Toy cooking and pastry-making set, made from plastic, approximately 30 pieces; the toy cooking pot set is made in Hong Kong; the bowls set is made in England by Thomas Salter Ltd.
Date: c. 1980s
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Item Reference: 001595
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Plastic toy wrist watch in the design of a car, with bone designs on the watch band.
Date: c. 1980s
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Item Reference: 001592
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Aluminium teapot with green string wrapped around its handle, missing lid.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 001609
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: A “Clover Bank Cheque Book” for children’s playtime, cannot be used in payment, orange covered.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 001610
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Mini-Toons’ action transfer on the theme, “Ye knights of olde”, includes an envelope with user instructions, graphics, and transfers; printed in England by Letraset Limited.
Date: 1971
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Item Reference: 001607
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Ephemera
Description: Assorted candy 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, described by Virginia Shankland, acquired for free with the purchase of Brooke Bond Tea and Teabags.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 001584
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Cup and ball game in original packaging, made by John Millman’s Traditional Toys and Games.
Date: c. 1980s
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