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Description: | Wooden box containing Aunt Sally game. Doll has black face with painted features and holes in nose and ears for clay pipes. Wooden box has paper label pasted on lid which reads 'Aunt Sally'. Six plain wooden sticks, which were thrown at the head, in the hope of breaking a pipe. Eleven clay pipes, one with broken off stem.
Part numbers as follows
box /1
doll /2
wooden sticks /3 to /8
clay pipes /9 to /19 Came from Strelley Hall, donor's father worked at Strelley Hall as a gardener. Donor worked for many years at Nottingham Castle as a gardener. Perhaps used at garden parties or fetes held at Strelley Hall.
Accession number: NCMG 2009-50 | Temporal: | 1900-1970c | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | Nottingham | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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