Dolly's Dinner Party

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Bestikon Dolls' House Food This was probably the manufacturer who made the food that Hunka Munca and Tom Thumb failed to eat in "The Tale of Two Bad Mice", Beatrix Pottter describes buying dolls' house food that came in boxes with shavings in order to draw it for the book.

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Dolly's Dinner Party
twelve dishes of plaster dolls' house food on pressed carboard plates in original pale turquoise paper shavings, dishes including oysters, ham, bavarois, gooseberry tarts, a terrine and spinach with gammon and a poached egg, in original green box with lid label, circa 1900 the box -11¼in. (29cm.) x 8¼in. (21cm.) (some insect damage to label)

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