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Storage Box

1930-1939 (made)
Artist/Maker

Cardboard box made to look like a house, top of the box slopes towards front. On the front of the box, white house with blue doors and windows, yellow fence and birdhouse, girl in eed dress and white apron walking down a path. On the reverse of the box is back of the house- also with red roos and blue windows and a boy in a red shirt and green hat tending pigs near a yellow water well. On the sides are one chimney with chikens and one door with ducks.

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Printed cardboard
Brief description
Storage box, for stationery, possibly Newton Mill Ltd., printed cardboard, England, 1930s
Physical description
Cardboard box made to look like a house, top of the box slopes towards front. On the front of the box, white house with blue doors and windows, yellow fence and birdhouse, girl in eed dress and white apron walking down a path. On the reverse of the box is back of the house- also with red roos and blue windows and a boy in a red shirt and green hat tending pigs near a yellow water well. On the sides are one chimney with chikens and one door with ducks.
Dimensions
  • Length: 17.2cm
  • Width: 6.4cm
  • Height: 12.7cm
Taken from register
Collection
Accession number
MISC.733-1988

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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