The Queens Bathroom, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4502-4)

2016 Exhibit
The Queens Bathroom, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4502-4) (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 "The Queen's Bathroom", 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 4502-4. 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: THE QUEEN's BATHROOM.

Among the most delightful of the Royal apartments in the Queen's Dolls' House is the Queen's Bathroom with walls in shagreen and ivory, and an alabaster bath with silver fittings fit for a fairy Queen, though mortals might like to know that real water is laid on. Bath-mat, bath salts and weighing book – every detail conceivable, only waiting for a Queen of Lilliput to use them. The fine ceiling is painted by Maurice Greiffenhagen, R.A.

— Raphael Tuck & Sons, Postcard 4502-4, -

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