Summary

Pair of toy plates of flowers. Each made by gluing model flowers onto a button. Flowers potentially made out of either paste or modelling clay. Most likely home made, due to the domestic nature of the items it is made of.

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

Pair of plates with flowers. Plates matching cream coloured buttons. Flowers potentially made out of paste or modelling clay. One plate has four pastel green flowers glued to the base with yellow centres. Pale pink flower glued to top. Other plate has lost this pink flower, as remant glue suggests. Also has four green flowers glued to base. All flowers slightly chipped.

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