Summary

Alternative Name(s): High Chair, Sedan Chair, Invalid Chair, Wheeled Chair, Wheel Chair, Combination High Chair and Carriage, Go-Cart

Toy metal highchair. Foldable table coverts into a highchair, or can be lowered to provide a seat and table with wheels. A similar, full-size product appears in the 1902 Sears, Roebuck & Co, Catalogue (No. 111, p. 747), as a 'Combination High Chair and Carriage'. It is described as "easily changed from a stationary high chair, which will not roll, to a low go-cart, making this a very useful piece of furniture."

Part of a dolls' house, built around 1920 by Neil McArthur for his much younger half-sister Elizabeth (Beth) Twycross, born in 1917. Neil made the doll's house out of found materials including cigar boxes; he also made many of the furnishings in the doll's house. Some of the contents of the doll's house may date back to the 1860s, played with by ancestor Charlotte Twycross; most date to either the 1920s or the 1940s-50s. In the early 1950s the donor was given the spruced-up doll's house as a birthday present by her parents. In later years her own daughter later added items, although she wasn't allowed to play due to its fragility.

Physical Description

Metal highchair. Made to look like wrought iron, with linear and curved metal. Two wheels attached to back of chair. Swivelling table at front, attached with a metal rod, with two wheels attached. Can be folded underneath to create a highchair.

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