Summary

Alternative Name(s): Pot Set; Pots & Pans

Set of three toy tin metal pots, a lid and a frypan.

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

Set of toy metal cookware, comprising two pots with two handles and lids, a third pot without lid, a larger lid without a pot and a frypan. The three pots are of slightly decreasing size. The cookware is probably pressed tin, painted to appear aluminium. The handles on each piece are painted mid-blue and rivetted to body. Pot handles are heart-shaped, with corresponding heart-shaped piercing. The pot lids have centre handles slotted through the lid and bent on the underside. The two smaller pots have a convex dimple on the underside. The pot interiors are tarnished.

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