761EN1923806b48a69
type: Source
id: 806
text: Toy metal lampshade. Was originally in the breakfast room of the McArthur Doll's House. Part of a dolls' house, built around 1920 by Neil McArthur for his much younger half-sister Elizabeth (Beth) Twycross, born in 1917. Neil made the doll's house out of found materials including cigar boxes; he also made many of the furnishings in the doll's house. Some of the contents of the doll's house may date back to the 1860s, played with by ancestor Charlotte Twycross; most date to either the 1920s or the 1940s-50s. In the early 1950s the donor was given the spruced-up doll's house as a birthday present by her parents. In later years her own daughter later added items, although she wasn't allowed to play due to its fragility.
locale: en
hash: 761EN1923806b48a69
snippet: Toy metal lampshade. Was originally in t
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  source id: 806
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