Princess Royals Bedroom, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4502-7)

2016 Exhibit
Princess Royals Bedroom, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4502-7) (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 "Princess Royal's Bedroom", 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 4502-7. These postcards started to be produced in 1924, when the dollhouse first went on public display.

SERIES III: THE ROYAL BEDROOMS, Etc.

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III: 4502: PRINCESS ROYAL’S ROOM.

Although this room shows none of the luxuriousness of the Queen’s Bedroom, it is in every way worthy of the Queen’s Dolls’ House. It has much that makes for comfort. Note the ermine rug by the bed and the electric reading lamp. The St. Ursula Bed, 7 inches high, is an exact copy of one designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens himself. The etching over the mantelpiece by Miss Borcel represents the State Coach used for the Coronation and other State occasions.

— Raphael Tuck & Sons, Postcard 4502-7, -

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