Item Reference: 002048
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two unopened packets oh holographic/prismatic stickers, sealed in shrink wrap. The stickers are of space shuttles, a flying saucer, and hot air balloon and placed on a cardboard front. Made and sold in USA by Decal Specialities Inc, based in Mason City, Iowa.
Date: 1980
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Item Reference: 002047
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Folding painted blackboard effect card from Courtier Arts Limited. Features illustration of blackboard and schoolboy wearing a Dunce cap breaking through. There is a message on the front of the card written in chalk. The blackboard is able to stand alone like an easel.
Date: 1970
Further Information: The ‘Phil’ to whom the card is addressed is likely the contributor of the artefact to the archive.
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Item Reference: 002046
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Periscope and telescope set still sealed in packaging. Both are plastic featuring a green and red colour scheme. By David Halsall Toys featuring a ‘this is my toy’ tagline. Has European Conformity symbol (conformité européenne). Made outside of the UK, unclear where
Date: c. 1980s
Further Information: The import address ceased the be used by David Halsall Toys in 1989. The company now uses the name HTI Toys.
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Item Reference: 002045
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small blue plastic extendable periscope, with white plastic around the viewfinder and eye piece. The white plastic shows some discolouration, caused by seeping glue. The mirrors are also plastic and display heavy scratching
Date: c. 1980s
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Item Reference: 002044
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small black plastic extendable periscope. Made in Taiwan.
Date: c.1980s
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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: 002042
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Unopened ‘Thunderbirds’ wrapping paper from Woolworths. The paper is blue with imposed images of the Thunderbirds (Scott, Virgil, and John Tracey), the ‘Thunderbird 2’ rocket ship, and ‘International Rescue’ logo. Only three of the five Thunderbirds are represented.
Date: c. late 1980s
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Item Reference: 002034
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Polysteryne jet glider model still in packaging. Packaging in a paper sachet with a slight veneer for durability. The front of the packing despite the model within and the back shows other model planes from the same line, each a different nation’s airline. The model has Air Italia branding and shows signs it was never put together. Made in Taiwan.
Date: c. 1980s
Further Information: These styles of product with similar packaging were vaguely ubiquitous, though usually featured wartime aircraft as opposed to passenger craft
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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: 002032
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Two lightplay transparent mobiles from Rainbow Bridge still with original packaging. The opened mobile features plastic semi-opaque horse designs hanging from a metal frame with semi-transparent nylon thread with silicone suction cup. The packaging features a blue cardboard label, with price sticker still affixed, displaying a cost of 25p. There is a piece of regular string thread also attached, though this would appear to be a later addition following use. The still sealed mobile features plastic semi-opaque cat designs and the same mechanisms of the above mobile and the same label but with a pink colour. Both designs are created by the artist Max Brownigg for Rainbow Designs Ltd.. The label features an address on Old Street and telephone number.
Date: c. 1980s
Further Information: There is no record of a limited company with the name Rainbow Bridge Ltd., except a South Yorkshire funeral service agency. 188 Old Street is the site of a former school building which now houses multiple business.
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