Toys Collection (page 11)

Girl and boy with presents on a Christmas card with white and gold decorative border. Date: circa 1890s

Girl with a basket of toys on a cutout Christmas card
Girl with a basket of toys and gifts on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Snow scene with Santa Claus on a Christmas card
Snow scene with Santa Claus and children, viewed through an archway on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Boy with trumpet and whip on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

English toys during WW1 - English made war dolls
An female worker posed with war dolls representing the King, Lord Kitchener, Sir John French, Sir John Jellicoe and General Joffre. A selection of British-made toys during the First World War

Lotts Chemistry Set advertisement, 1932
Advertisement for Lotts Chemistry Set complete with chemicals, litmus, magnesium ribbon, instruction booklet etc. Just the thing for buddings chemists or those who wish to make invisible ink

Hamleys Christmas presents advertisement, 1929
Full page advertisement for Hamleys toy shop featuring a number of ideas for Christmas 1929 including a bunny nightie and hot water bottle case

Misfitz Dolls - Jappy. early 20th century

Advert for Gamages christmas toys 1914
Advert for the famous Gamages store on Holborn, London, promoting wooden childrens toys. 1914

Father Christmas in a train on a Victorian scrap
Father Christmas in a train full of presents on a Victorian scrap. circa 1890s

Father Christmas on horse-drawn carriage on Victorian scrap
Father Christmas on a horse-drawn carriage full of trees and presents on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Angel with horse-drawn carriage on Victorian Christmas scrap
Angel with a horse-drawn carriage full of toys and a tree on a Victorian Christmas scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Music cover, If you re Wanting to Buy a Car, words and music by Will Hyde, as sung by Stafford Coombe, the Works Manager. Showing a man driving a Vauxhall Scoota Car. 1935

Comerton Home, Newport-on-Tay, Fife
Children and staff in front of the Comerton Home, near Newport, Fife. Toys include a rocking horse and dolls house. Two boys hold tennis rackets. Date: circa 1905

1950s Vintage Christmas Card. 1950s

Commandeered by Lawson Wood, WW1 cartoon
Cartoon by Lawson Wood showing two British soldiers taking away a little boys toy horse, much to his distress. The cartoon is a humorous comment on the number of horses commandeered by the Army in

My Dolly by Susan Beatrice Pearse
A little girl sits in a comfortable looking floral upholstered armchair and cuddles her baby doll. A toy cradle stands by her feet. Date: c.1915

Miss Jessica Borthwick aka Nell Foy
Miss Jessica Borthwick (1888-1946), aka Nell Foy, sculptor, camera woman and one of the first nurses in France during the First world War

Isobel Elsom with Tou Tou
English Actress, Isobel Elsom (1893-1981), pictured in 1917 when she was about to star as Wendy in a new staging of Peter Pan at the New Theatre London in December 1917

Father Christmas by E. F. Skinner
Father Christmas dismounts from his sleigh, laden with toys for good children. Date: 1909

Young boy in his Rolls Royce style Toy Pedal Car
Young boy in his Rolls Royce Toy Pedal Car. Date: circa 1900s

Father Christmas and children having snowball fight
Father Christmas has snowball fight with two children, while two other little children rifle through Santas toy sack, finding their perfect Christmas presents. c.1920

Fern Street Settlement
Poor working class children in Londons East End, queueing up for the Fern Street Settlement, set up in 1905 by Clara Grant; a bundle of toys in exchange for a farthing. Date: early 1930s

Christmas toy ideas, 1953
An array of wonderful toys for potential Christmas presents in 1953 including a farm set, a large dancing doll (slightly sinister), a nursery rug decorated with a rabbit, a toy snack bar

Good Housekeeping front cover June 1932
Front cover of Good Housekeeping magazine for 1932 with a little boy swept along by the craze for aviation. With toy aeroplane in hand, and his Biggles style flying helmet on his head

Princess Henriette of Schonaich-Carolath, Doorn
Princess Henriette of Schonaich-Carolath (1918-1972), daughter of Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz and stepdaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Ewhurst Place, East Sussex
Peter aged 4, Heather aged 2, Betty asleep in her cot upstairs, aged one month. Ewhurst Place, East Sussex. May 1917

Victorian childrens Christmas party by Pauline Baynes
A Pauline Baynes illustration of a Victorian childrens Christmas party showing a typical Victorian drawing room with its homely clutter of bric-a-brac and elaborate decoration

1970S Boys Kite Flying
Three boys run to keep their kites in the air, the effort showing on their faces. Date: circa 1970 s

Little Baby Blue by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration of a beautiful little brown eyed baby girl, dressed in a matching knitted hat and dress set and cuddling a soft toy closely

Children at Eastcliff House, Margate, Kent
Residents outside Eastcliff House, Alexandra Road, Margate, Kent. It was established as a childrens seaside convalescent home by the St Pancras Union in 1896

G Sparagnapane Novelty Christmas crackers
Page from a catalogue advertising the various ingenious novelty Christmas cracker boxes available from G Sparagnapane and Co in the form of a piano, cottage, tram, submarine, train and fire engine

I ve lost my heart properly this time! by G. E Studdy
Comic colour illustration by George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948) showing his canine creation, Bonzo sitting holding some playing cards. Studdy created Bonzo for The Sketch magazine in the early 1920s

This Weeks Studdy - (Pillow)
Bandaged paw looking pleased with himself following the destruction of an eiderdown pillow.George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

Parkins and Gotto
Advertisement from 1905 for Parkins and Gotto, of Oxford Street, London, showing the wide range of electrical novelties and toys available, including torches, a roulette wheel and a conjuring table

Toy Shop Window
Mothers and children admiring all the latest toys for sale in a toy shop window display

Happyfamilies / Miss Grits
Miss Grits the Grocers Daughter, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

Happy Families / Mst Grits
" Happy Families" was devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

Boys Racing Toy Boats
Two small boys race their toy yachts in a country stream. A thatched cottage with smoking chimney is in the background

Boys with Train Set
Two blond boys are absorbed by their model train set

Childrens Doll & Teaset
A boy pretends to pour tea for a little girl and her doll

JACK-IN-THE-BOX 1888
Two little girls look rather wary of a jack-in-the-box sitting on the table

Xmas Girl & Teddy Bear
A girl shyly looks at the Teddy Bear she is being given for Christmas

Teddy Goes to Bed 1914
Teddy is one of the toys this girl takes with her when she goes to bed with her candle on Christmas Eve, while Santa watches through the window

Children Playing 1852
Three children play games using rocking horses and chairs as horses

3 Boys Fly Kites 1912
Three happy boys flying their kites

Swedish Pogo Sticks 1922
Swedish children discover the delights of pogo-sticking, already a favourite in France, England the USA

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