The Queens Bedroom, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4502-3)

2016 Exhibit
The Queens Bedroom, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4502-3) (i)
location:
Arch Two , Area 19 Antique and Vintage Dollhouse Miniatures (display)
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==This exhibit is scheduled to go on display during 2016, as part of the museum's 25th anniversary improvements==,

An "Oilette" postcard of "The Queen's Bedroom", The Queen's Dolls' House (later to be known as Queen Mary's Dolls' House), produced by Raphael Tuck and Sons ("Tuck's Postcards") catalogue number 4502-3. These postcards started to be produced in 1924, when the dollhouse first went on public display.

SERIES III: THE ROYAL BEDROOMS, Etc.

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III: 4502: THE QUEEN'S BEDROOM.

The hangings of this right royal apartment in the Queen’s Dolls" House are of silk damask, the carpet is woven, and the ceiling delightfully painted by Glyn Philpot, R.A.The lofty-looking room is 20 inches high. Above the jade and white marble mantelpiece is a portrait of The Duchess of Teck, Her Majesty’s mother, by Frank O. Salisbury, and on the wall is a painting of Mary Queen of Scots by Gerald Kelly, A.R.A. Over the door to the Bathroom is a barometer,and on the mantelpiece is a clock which shows the correct time.

— Raphael Tuck & Sons, Postcard 4502-3, -

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