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Prior to television and in the aftermath of the Great Depression, this card set on “Things To Make” would have come in handy for birthday gift ideas and a great way to pass the time. It includes instructions on how to construct a Royal Mail van and post box, miniature Punch and Judy show, paper aeroplane with a safety pin attached to the end to improve its flight, and furniture for a doll’s house. Many British households didn’t have telephones till well into the second half of the 20th century but one of these mid 1930’s cards reveals how to make a pair of toy ones out of tin cans and a string.
J Millhoff, Things to Make, 1935 (50 cards)
Includes:Doll's Cradle,Paper Doll,Doll's Chair From Match Boxes,Long Table,Necklace,Sentry Box,Chinese Lantern,Punch and Judy,Ice Cream Barrow,Royal Mail Van,Bed From Shoe Box,Jacob's Ladder Puzzle Card Case,Spinning Top,Doll's Cradle,Steamer,Costers' Barrow,Round, Table,Doll's Chair,Pea-Nut Monkey,Horse,Candlestick,Peg Wrestlers,Doll's Garden Seat,Balancing Man,Peanut Mouse,Doll's Dressing Table,Dolls' Writing Desk,Telephone,Paper Dart,Engine,Lampshade,Covered Van,Steam Roller,Step Dancer,Chair From Cork,Acorn, Beetle,Dolls' Mangle,Twirling Disc,Sailing Boat,Tank,Windmill,Glider,Pillar Box,Conker Chair,Cone Chick,Boat From Cork,Dancing Jack,Hedgehog,Paper Sunshade,Moving Horse,
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