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[ Re the toys which made Xmas long ago : Popie on Victorian penny toys.] Copy of Typed Letter from theatre historian W. J. Macqueen-Pope, containing a long list, with some comments, including toys which have almost if not quite vanished .
Publicado por 12 June No place London, 1956
Librería: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Reino Unido
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For information on Macqueen-Pope, see his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item is from his papers. Unsigned carbon copy of typed letter, with (W. Macqueen-Pope) typed below space for signature. 2pp, 4to. Sixty-one lines of text. Text clear and complete, on lightly aged and creased paper, with slight water stain to one edge and damage to top left-hand corner from paperclip. The letter begins: My Dear John, / Re the toys which made Xmas long ago. One would want a picture of the men standing shoulder to shoulder down Ludgate Hill, in the gutter, selling the penny toys. These they carried on trays, with a support round their necks. The toys were of all sorts - a list - . A list of thirty-two lines follows, beginning: Little men taking off their tall hats when a string was pulled. / Little tortoises in boxes with glass tops, which waggled their legs when moved. Ends with: Little bits of metal like aeroplane propellors [sic] which rose in the air when pushed up a screwed rod. / Watchmen s rattles - yellow and red. / Bulls eye lanterns. The recipient has followed each entry on the list with a tiny tick in ink. Macqueen-Pope continues with twenty-three lines listing toys which have almost if not quite vanished - b[u]t which cost more than a penny - some as much as sixpence . These include: Tin palm tress [sic] bearing cocoanuts and a nigger smwarmed [sic] up it, caught a cocoa nut in a try on his head and came down. and The Wheel of Life - a circular tin affair looking like a round saucepan with no handle. It had slots in the side. Into the bottom went a spike. You put rolls of paper - with illustrations inside, facing inwards, you twirled it round, looked through the slots and the pictures moved. This was the origin of the cinema. Also Slap bangs, which went off with a satisfying bang when dropped. Scared old men and made cyclists think they had a puncture. Postscript: White mice and pigs made of sugar. Tiger nuts - locusts. Everlasting stick .
