Housemaids Closet, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4504-6)

2016 Exhibit
Housemaids Closet, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4504-6) (i)
location:
Arch Two , Area 19 Antique and Vintage Dollhouse Miniatures (display)
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==This exhibit is scheduled to go on display during 2016, as part of the museum's 25th anniversary improvements==,

An "Oilette" postcard of "Housemaid's Closet", The Queen's Dolls' House (later to be known as Queen Mary's Dolls' House), produced by Raphael Tuck and Sons ("Tuck's Postcards") catalogue number 4504-6. These postcards started to be produced in 1924, when the dollhouse first went on public display.

SERIES V: NURSERY AND KITCHEN

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V: 4504: HOUSEMAID'S CLOSET.

This comparatively humble but very useful section of the Queen's Dolls' House deserves more than a passing glance. The fairy housemaid may here find all the tools of her helpful department. Water is laid on. Little sinks have teak draining boards and behind these are diminutive Dutch tiles which are replicas of existing patterns. Stepladder, dust pan and brush, vacuum cleaner, brooms, polishes, mops, hot water cans are there, and ready in case of fire is an up-to-date extinguisher.

— Raphael Tuck & Sons, Postcard 4504-6, -

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