Tag: 1980-1990

Item Reference: 006659
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Lego 1030 Technic 1 simple machines set, comprising assorted Lego pieces in a storage box
Date: 1985
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Item Reference: 006685
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small plastic toy doll, in clear plastic packaging, labelled ‘Miss Switzerland’. In clothing that resembles typical fashions of the late 1950s-1970s, with red shoes and brown hair with a red bow.
Date: c. 1980s
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Item Reference: 006682
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small hard plastic doll labelled ‘Thailand’ in traditional dress. The dress appears to be a mixture of the lower body panung garment and upper body suea pat garment. Features a hairstyle with two twisted buns around either side of the head. Head unattached.
Date: c. 1970s
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Item Reference: 006681
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small toy doll, in clear plastic packaging, presumably sold as a souvenir from Brussels. In traditional dress. Cord in the colour of the Belgian flag colours, for hanging or holding, is attached to the packaging. Labelled with ‘Bruxelles’
Date: c. 1980s
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Item Reference: 006676
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small hard plastic doll labelled ‘Normande’, in clear cylindrical packaging with the coat of arms of Normandy. Packaging features a gold-yellow thin cord for holding or hanging. The doll wear traditional Norman dress with features a headdress, known as a coiffe, or coiffe bigoudène, which would’ve been made of lace and muslin. Doll is potentially a tourist souvenir or hobbyist collectable.
Date: c. 1980s
Further Information:  The doll is part of a range of various dolls from regions in France; including Brittany, Champagne, and Langeais. The coiffe is also regional to Burgundy and Brittany.
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Item Reference: 002101
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Green wooden barrel-shaped kazoo, with painted instructions. Made in the USA. Plastic endcap on one side.
Date: c. 1980s
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Item Reference: 006670
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Skeleton Airfix A301N model kit, in 1:6 scale to construct a 12-inch skeleton; in original box with assembly instructions and materials.
Date: 1981
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Item Reference: 002160
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: W. H. Smith Exclusive Collection Jigsaw Puzzle; Jumbo; made in Holland by Hauseman en Hotte nv; “Innocence”; #80091; 1000-pieces, 68cm x 48.5cm. 1000 pieces.
Date: c. 1980s
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Item Reference: 002159
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: bePuzzled jigsaw puzzle; “Death By Diet: A Jigsaw Puzzle Murder Mystery”; Story by R.D. Zimmerman; 500-pieces.
Date: 1987
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Item Reference: 002158
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Falcon Jigsaw Puzzle; The Royal Collection; “Charles I in 3 positions, Van Dyke”; #3920; 500-pieces, 51cm x 35cm. THe back of the box features information on the painting in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.
Date: c. 1980s/1990s
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