Summary

Alternative Name(s): Flowerpot

Toy flower pot with red and yellow flowers.

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 flower pot. Wooden pot, painted brown-red on exterior with a blue lip. Plastic flowers glued to the top. Green base from which three stems are attached. Two have a red flower on top and one a yellow flower. Numbers marked in graphite on the base of the pot.

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