Toys Through Time
1. Straw doll’s hat and original hat box c.1900
2. German Doll made of stuffed textile with a moulded fabric covered face and painted features wearing a shawl and apron. c.1930s
3. Doll with bisque porcelain head and white kid leather stuffed body, and dressed as a Quaker. Her clothes are homemade and she may have been intended as an ornament, rather than as a toy. Made around 1870
4. Russian doll dressed in Chukotka style c. 1930s. Chukotka is bordered in the north by the Chukchi Sea and the East Siberian Sea, which are part of the Arctic Ocean. In Winter the temperature there can go down to -35 degrees Celsius
5. Doll made of stuffed textile with hinged arms and legs and painted face. She carries a basket on her back and dates from the 1930s
6. Toy kitchen set, originally produced with around 40 individual accessories c.1960s
7. Toy wooden horse dating to the early 1930s, played with by Charles Rawlinson in 1934
8. Thunderbird 2, a Dinky Toy, c. 1960’s from the famous TV series Thunderbirds
9. Toy Telephone Switchboard c. 1960s
10. Wooden building blocks, c. 1930s
11. The ‘Old Woman in a Shoe’, presented to a five year old girl in 1860 as a needlework prize. The imitation leather shoe holds peg dolls of the old woman and her 13 children.
12. Meccano Tram. Patented by Frank Hornby in 1901, Meccano was at the height of its popularity in the l920s and 1930s. This model was probably built around the l960s
13. Skipping rope, with wooden handles.
14. Pull-along wooden train, made in the 1930s
15. Toy car, plastic, from the “Bratz” range, produced in China c. 2003
16. Video game console, ATARI 7800 model, with game cartridge, called “Ikari Warriors” c. 1980s
17. Afro Caribbean baby doll dating from 1926. She was given to Mrs Smith, the donor, when she was a year old. Knitted pants are of a later date
18. Doll’s high chair from the l930s. Hinged at the front so that it could be folded down to make a low chair, which was on wheels
19. Table Quoits game, late 19th century / early 20th century
20. Toy Story movie franchise figure of Jessie the Yodelling Cowgirl created by Pixar and Disney, late 1990s
21. Toy Story movie franchise figure of Sheriff Woody Pride (Woody) created by Pixar and Disney, late 1990s
22. Toy Noah’s Ark with animals made of plywood, dating from the l960s
23. Doll’s house. A miniature replica of Clare Priory, Suffolk. It was made for the children of the Barker family, who lived at the Priory in 1804.
24. Wax doll with a textile body wearing a light green (faded) silk dress decorated with lace frills, dating from about l870
25. Japanese doll, with composition head, torso, hands and feet wearing a brightly patterned kimono and a full set of undergarments. Dates from 1916
26. Doll made of textile and plaster, with plaited woollen hair. She wears a green brocade dress decorated with lace and white kid boots, and dates from the 1920s
27. Afro Caribbean rag doll made by Gladys Perry (1902-1987) when she was a teacher.
28. Doll with wax face and legs, dressed as a child in a well-to-do costume of white cotton from around 1880