Item Reference: 001662
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small flip-book, 1″x3″; with instructions to flip quickly through a series of cartoons, depicting a child blowing a balloon that pops, animated by Tony Guy, published and distributed by Tobar Limited, printed in Hong Kong.
Date: 1996
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Item Reference: 001668
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Plastic toy camera with clicker sound for flash and strap for hand carry; made by Connitoy Factory Ltd; for 18 months old and above, in the colours blue, pink, and yellow; made in China.
Date: c. 1990s
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Item Reference: 1667
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Camera shaped water bottle, made of blue plastic with original strap and straw; created by Dynamic Promotion; made in Thailand.
Date: c. 1990s
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Item Reference: 001585
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two doll’s hats, made with cotton-based fabric, one is white, the other is blue with white details.
Date: c. 1990s
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Item Reference: 001641
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Book
Description: “Hey Arnold!” flip-book no. 5 of Nickelodeon character, designed by Craig Bartcett, made by Kellogg Company; given away in Kellogg’s cereal packet.
Date: 1997
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Item Reference: 006647
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Holographic bookmark manufactured as part of a tie-in with cereal brand Cheerios and Shreddies promoting Disney’s 1997 film ‘Hercules’. The bookmark depicts a scene from the film with two characters bowing down, with the effect achieved by moving the bookmark. THere were four different bookmarks as part of the promotion.
Date: 1997
Further Information: UK-based promotion.
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Item Reference: 002043
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: 8 inch long colourfully painted wooden parrot. The paint has a slight veneer. There is a circular hole on the underside of the parrot, which perhaps once secured some kind of pole. There is a small paper sticker on the underside that is stamped with ‘made in Phillipines’
Date: c. 1990s
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Item Reference: 002033
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Fabric butterfly mobile with wire wrapped in thread attached. The frame of the butterfly is wire and made up of felt-like wires. The back of the butterfly features a clip as an alternative form of attachment
Date: c. 1990s
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Item Reference: 002031
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two miniature plastic kaleidoscopes, one pink and one green. Aside from their colour the are identical. They feature small multicoloured plastic pieces in the tibe and a small twistable end cap. The pink kaleidoscope retains its plastic adhesive label which has the European Conformity symbol (conformité européenne) and that they were made for Stockingfillas Limited with an address in Macclesfield. Made in Hong Kong.
Date: 1990-1995
Further Information: Companies House has no record of ‘Stockingfillas’ ever being an incorporated company, or any limited company registered at a SK10 1LP postcode, suggesting the use of ‘Limited’ is erroneous. The postcode on the label was terminated by the Royal Mail in January 1995
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Item Reference: 002027
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Plastic three-in-one kaleidoscope. Small plastic tube with three different attachable lenses. Still sealed in original packaging. Sold under ‘Pocket Money Toys’ brand name and made in Hong Kong. Kaleidoscope feature psychedelic designs and the packaging has a cartoon figure of a child using kaleidoscope.
Date: c. 1990s
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