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A delightfully different Advent Calendar, based on toy theatre pantomime scenery and characters. 12x6.5ins (A3), with gift wrapper.

£7.50 including P&P

1. Columbine and Harlequin 1824 4x6ins

2. The Dolls’ Tea Party c.1910 4x7ins

3. Pollock’s New Fairies, c.1880 5x5ins

4. The Endless Not of Love, 1842, 5x6ins

5. Edwin Smith’s Theatre, 1843, 4.75x4.75ins folded

6. John Leech, ‘Young Troublesome,
or Master Jacky’s Holiday’, 1845, 6x5ins folded

7. Edward Ardizzone, ‘Mr Ardizzone presents
his toy theatre’, 1947, 6x5ins

8. Harold Jones, Father Christmas, 1935, 6x4.5ins

9. ‘Her First Bouquet’, 1868, 4.5x6ins

*10. Canal boat interior from ‘The Atom Secrets’, 1950, 3.75x5ins

*11. Webb’s Theatre, c.1880, 3.25x5ins

12. Webb’s Father Christmas, 1868, 4.5x6ins

13. Claud Lovat Fraser, ‘Light Cavalry’ from A Book of Toys, 1912, 3.75x5ins

14. Paul and Marjorie Abbatt, Car Puzzle, c.1934, 4x6ins

Greetings cards

All supplied with good quality envelopes.
No text inside.

£1.00 per card + envelope, including P&P

*Nos.10 & 11 50p per card + envelope, including P&P

Toy Theatre Plays

These plays are fun to cut out and play with at almost any age. Performing the plays requires some skills, and are probably best left to children of age 10 and upwards.

Oliver Twist, complete play and theatre to make, four sheets in colour, each 27.5x19ins, also suitable for wrapping paper, and book of words of the play, as published by John Redington, c.1850. (photo of theatre made up with foamboard courtesy Sam Reed)

£6 in cardboard tube, including P&P

Black Ey’d Susan, complete play and theatre in black and white to make and words of the play and sheet of songs, published by Robert Lloyd, 1829. In a presentation envelope. (photo of theatre made with an ordinary cardboard box)

£7.50, including P&P

Wrapping paper

Pantomime paper, from prints by Benjamin Pollock, size 27.5x19ins. This makes delightful wrapping paper, but is also suitable for cutting out and making up plays involving the stock Victorian pantomime characters, Harlequin, Columbine, Clown and Pantaloon, and a large number of policemen.

£1.00 per sheet (£5 minimum mail order in tube)
including P&P

Book
Printing the Toy Theatre by David Powell, Jan Piggott, and Horatio Blood, paperback 80pp, fully illustrated in colour A4 size.

This book covers the intricate and fascinating story of how toy theatre plays, ‘Theatrical Portraits’ and their ‘tinsel’ ornaments were produced, coloured by hand and sold in London between 1811 and the 1960s. Essential for collectors, with many visual delights.

£14.95 including P&P

All prices include postage and packing in the UK. For prices in other locations, we charge postage at cost. Please email your order to info@pollocksmuseum.co.uk and send a cheque payable to Pollock's Toy Museum Trust to 99 Judd Street, London WC1H 9NE. Our PayPal facility will be up and running shortly. Apologies for the inconvenience.