Summary

Pink plastic mantel clock. The time reads 10 minutes past 7 o'clock. There is a manufacturer's mark on the back, bearing the name 'Kleeware', a brand of plastic toy developed by O & M Kleeman in the UK in the 1950s.

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 mantel clock, made of pink moulded plastic. Arched top design with circle of clear plastic covering a paper clock face, printed in black ink. Manufacturer name and place of production moulded on reverse side.

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