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Christmas Stocking

1915-1929 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This is one of a large group of childhood objects donated by Eileen Brock. Eileen was born in 1915 to a middle-class family living in North London. Her mother, Amy Piercy, was the youngest of a close family of six sisters so Eileen's early life was busy with visits and entertainments with aunts and cousins. In 1921, when Eileen was six, her father William died in Basra, Iraq, where he was serving in the army.
Eileen and Amy were very close and shared a love of music, dancing and theatre. Eileen also inherited her mother's enthusiasm for collecting; they both held on to birthday and christmas cards, presents, school books, theatrical ephmera and clothing. These ordinary but personally significant objects span the decades when education, cinema, fashion and women's lives were transformed in Britain.
The Museum of Childhood now holds this wonderul collection which offers rich insight into the everyday life of a young girl growing up after the First World War.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 13 parts.

  • Angel
  • Booklet
  • Stocking
  • Picture Puzzle
  • Croquet Mallet
  • Croquet Mallet
  • Croquet Mallet
  • Croquet Ball
  • Croquet Ball
  • Box Lid
  • Rolling Pin
  • Bamboo Tube
  • Hammer Head
Brief description
Net stocking containing miniature croquet set, picture puzzle, booklet of verse and paper angel decoration. England, 1915-1929
Physical description
All the small objects were kept inside the stocking as gifts.
Production typeMass produced
Credit line
Given by Miss Eileen A Brock
Object history
Belonged to the donor as a child. This Christmas stocking was retained mostly intact, though parts of the croquet set are missing, and the hammer head is a mysterious inclusion.
Summary
This is one of a large group of childhood objects donated by Eileen Brock. Eileen was born in 1915 to a middle-class family living in North London. Her mother, Amy Piercy, was the youngest of a close family of six sisters so Eileen's early life was busy with visits and entertainments with aunts and cousins. In 1921, when Eileen was six, her father William died in Basra, Iraq, where he was serving in the army.
Eileen and Amy were very close and shared a love of music, dancing and theatre. Eileen also inherited her mother's enthusiasm for collecting; they both held on to birthday and christmas cards, presents, school books, theatrical ephmera and clothing. These ordinary but personally significant objects span the decades when education, cinema, fashion and women's lives were transformed in Britain.
The Museum of Childhood now holds this wonderul collection which offers rich insight into the everyday life of a young girl growing up after the First World War.
Collection
Accession number
B.342:1 to 13-2012

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Record createdJanuary 3, 2013
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