Pen Used by the Queen Mother
This blue Parker pen was used by HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to sign the visitor's book during her visit to Lockheed Hydraulics in 1958. The metal lid of the pen has been inscibed to mark the ...
Petticoat
A white silk full length petticoat with crocheted silk panels to the bodice. The petticoat has crocheted straps.
Petticoat
A long white cotton petticoat which is trimmed with tucks and lace. The petticoat has white lace to the top and black lace along the skirt hem in tiers. It has a fitted bodice and buttons on the front....
Petticoat
A child's fine cotton lawn petticoat, made with a sleeveless bodice, which has a square neck. There are appliqued butterflies on the front with pintucks and inset lace. There is also fine thread work ...
Petticoat
A black quarter-length silk petticoat with black lace at the hem and neckline. It also has thin black shoulder straps.
Pillowcase
A rectangular white linen pillow case.
Pillowcase
A rectangular white linen pillow case.
Pinafore
A child's sleeveless cream-coloured cotton pinafore, open at the back. It has a draw tie at the neck, a sash attached to the front with a broderie anglaise strip, and broderie anglaise edging to the shoulder ...
Pinafore
A white cotton pinafore with a full length skirt. It has a bib to the front with ties for fastening around the neck. There is lace edging to the front and hem.
Plumber's Wiping Cloth
A plumber's wiping cloth from J. Clark and Sons. The cloth is made of moleskin and is enclosed in paper wrapping. The text printed on the wrapping reads 'One / British Made / 'Monument' / Brand / Plumbers' ...
Population explosion
This is a patchwork on canvas showing a woman in bed, with seven young babies wrapped beside her. It is made from scraps of cloth by Elizabeth Allen, who made a series of collages that with a serious ...
Population Explosion - detail
This is a patchwork on canvas showing a woman in bed, with seven young babies wrapped beside her. It is made from scraps of cloth by Elizabeth Allen, who made a series of collages that with a serious ...
Porcelain Head Doll
This doll, sold under the trade name 'Revalo', was made by the German maker Gebruder Ohlhaver.
It has a bisque head - a matt (unshiny) porcelain, with blue closing eyes and a real hair wig.
The ...
Porcelain Head Doll
This doll has a porcelain head with painted hair and features. It is called a 'glazed china' because the head has been given an overglaze to make it shiny.
Glazed china heads were popular until the ...
Porcelain Head Doll
This doll has a head made from untinted bisque. This is a matt (unshiny) porcelain with painted features added, but is otherwise left white.
It has a fabric body, with bisque arms and legs. The clothes ...
Porcelain Head Doll
This fashion doll was probably made in France, perhaps by the firm of Pierre Jumeau.
Fashion dolls were popular between 1860 - 1890, and were made to look like elegant young women.
This doll has ...
Porcelain Head Doll
This doll has a bisque head - a matt (unshiny) porcelain, with closing blue glass eyes and a mohair wig. Its body is made from leather, with bisque arms and composition legs.
Porcelain Head Doll
This doll's head was made in Germany by the maker Armand Marseille. His porcelain factory began making bisque doll's heads from c.1890, and became one of Europe's biggest producers.
Bisque is a matt ...