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Description: | The two children's toys shown here are from the Victorian era, but both have been popular games for millennia. The carved wooden top on the right of the photograph would have been set spinning and whipped with the leather thong to keep it in motion. Similar whips and tops have been found by archaeologists in Egypt dating to 2000 BC. Similarly, clay marbles, such as those spilling from the cloth bag on the left, have been found in Egyptian and Roman excavations.In the 19th century, wealthy and poor children alike would have played these games. However, these particular examples probably came from wealthier homes; working class children would have used more simple or homemade versions.
Various toys | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Toys Social history Victorian period Dolls and Toys | Temporal: | Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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