Summary
Toy fruit basket. Made of ceramic with three orange pieces of fruit to go inside. A plastic tomato was also housed here.
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
Toy fruit basket. Made of ceramic, White painted outside with red flower detail. Yellow painted inside. Handle painted white with red striped detail.
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Object Dimensions
40 mm (Width), 35 mm (Depth), 30 mm (Height)
Basket.
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Object Dimensions
12 mm (Length), 9 mm (Width)
Orange fruit.
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12 mm (Length), 9 mm (Width)
Orange fruit.
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12 mm (Length), 9 mm (Width)
Orange fruit.
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Object Dimensions
16 mm (Width), 23 mm (Height)
Tomato.
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