Some of the Library Furniture, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4501-6)

2016 Exhibit
Some of the Library Furniture, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4501-6) (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 "Some of the Library Furniture", 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 4501-6. 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: SOME OF THE LIBRARY FURNITURE.

No room could be more complete from the clock on the mantelpiece to the globe at either end, or the diminutive paper knife and pipe lying on the writing table. The picture shows one of the globes, 3 ¾ inches high, the beautiful chess table with its tiny and exquisitely carved chessmen, and the revolving writing-table chair. Nothing seems to have been neglected to make the Queen's Dolls' House a perfect museum of miniature Arts and Crafts.

— Raphael Tuck & Sons, Postcard 4501-6, -

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