Dining Room Fireplace, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4500-5)

2016 Exhibit
Dining Room Fireplace, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4500-5) (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 "Dining Room Fireplace", 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 4500-5. These postcards started to be produced in 1924, when the dollhouse first went on public display.

SERIES I: HOUSE, HALL & DINING-ROOM

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I: 4500: DINING ROOM FIREPLACE.

All the fireplaces in the Queen's Dolls' House are beautiful. The one shown in the picture is of sienna and white marble. Above it is a miniature by A. J. Munnings, A.R.A., of his fine picture of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in hunting pink, while on the marble mantelpiece are two lovely Sèvres vases, two silver cups and a clock which actually works. The beautiful ceiling is painted by Professor Gerald Moira, R.W.S. Scale throughout 1 inch to the foot.

— Raphael Tuck & Sons, Postcard 4500-5, -

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