Corner of the Library, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4501-8)

2016 Exhibit
Corner of the Library, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4501-8) (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 "Corner of the Library", 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 4501-8. These postcards started to be produced in 1924, when the dollhouse first went on public display.

SERIES II: DRAWING-ROOM AND LIBRARY

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II: 4501: CORNER OF THE LIBRARY.

The picture shows a few of the 200 miniature volumes in the Library of the Queen's Dolls' House. More than 170 authors have contributed tiny, exquisitely bound volumes, written most of them specially for this purpose by the authors themselves. The vessel in full sail is a model of the "Royal George" which foundered in 1782. In the gun-rack are two tiny guns, 4 inches long, while below this stands the burglar-proof safe with its valuable contents.

— Raphael Tuck & Sons, Postcard 4501-8, -

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