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Description: | Ernest King bought this festive penny toy on 20 December 1906. The stocking contains various toys including a wooden mallet, tin plate boat and two tin fish. Between 1893 and 1918 King collected over 1,700 toys and novelties, all bought from London's 'gutter merchants', mostly young boys and older women who sold their wares from a tray at the side of the road. Each item was sold for 1d (a penny), enabling all but the poorest parents to afford to buy Christmas treats for their children. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work Leisure Home and Family | Temporal: | 1906 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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