ANTIQUE TOYS
New Field For Collectors Chelsea toys, earthenware, moneyboxes, stone-figure bottles, old vinaigrettes and pocket nutmeg-graters were a few of the unusual objects which Mr. H. J. M. Maltby suggested in a lecture given to the Arundel Society might be found valuable and interesting by collectors in search of new fields. Mr. Maltby, who is Curator of the Salford Museums and Art Galleries, was speaking on “New fields for collectors,” and the meeting was held at th® College of Technology, Manchester. Amongst the most delightful things that were ever made, of which a fair number remained, were “Chelsea toys” —tiny but beautiful objects from the Chelsea pottery factory. Of the rarest of these toys breloques were the smallest and best, five-eighths of an inch being about the average size. One might see a wee woman’s face with diamond eyes or a valiant half-inch soldier. Many modern imitations were on the market, but the collector might still find those toys which looked as if they had been made by fairy fingers. AU the toys were made in the eighteenth century. In 1753 the Chelsea china works sent to Ford’s Rooms in London a large quantity of those treasures for public sale. An advertisement stated that the entire stock took five days to disperse. Thousands of toys must therefore have been made, or it would not have taken five days to dispose of them! Where were they now? To many people there was a wonderful fascination about the extremely small books; tiny boxes and tiny pieces of pottery and furniture ail had their devotees, and there were enthusiastic collectors of miniature needlework pictures. In the Wallace Collection there was an exquisite portrait of King Charles I, said to be the smallest perfect example of Stuart work in.existence. One in the Salford Museum, dated about 1660, measured only 4 by 34 inches.—“ Manchester Guardian.”
OUT OF THE ORDINARY New Decorative Cushions The craze for decorative cushions is making hostesses search for out-of-the-ordinary ideas. Lady Strathmore, mother of the Duchess of York, hit on the idea of historic cushions, and the first ones made up to her design were among the most popular things on her stall at the Greek Festa at the Dorchester recently. They were in tartan, and she said that she had the material copied from a coat in her possession that belonged to Prince Charlie the Pretender. Lady Lytton and Lady Violet Benson had also discovered the lure of cushions. Their cushion stall included petit point cushions in Italian design, others of pale gold brocade, chintz cushions for the bedroom at 5/- each, and American cloth garden cushions that the rain does not spoil. Orchid sprays from GlamiS'. Castle and large bunches of bright green parsley from Lord Plender’s estate were other items that sold fast. Corsage Sprays or Orchids, Roses, Violets. Debutantes’ Posies.—Miss Murray, 36 Willis St. Phone 40-541.— Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 98, 19 January 1935, Page 16
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482ANTIQUE TOYS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 98, 19 January 1935, Page 16
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