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Description: | -The toy collection includes cards and counter games collected by the Bowes and later dolls houses(19), dolls(200) and toys(450) including a Bing clockwork car 'The Spider'. There are two 18th century dolls and a rare swimming doll; 19 dolls houses, some of exceptional quality e.g.a German kitchen of c.1700; also a wooden train owned by the son of Edward Pease one of the founders of the Stockton -Darlington Railway of 1825, probably the first toy train; mechanical toys including model engines, ships and a working model of Crow's Fairground made in the 1950s.
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01833 637163 | Telephone: | 01833 690606 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6093 | Go to resource |
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