The Royal Kitchen, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4504-7)

2016 Exhibit
The Royal Kitchen, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4504-7) (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 Royal Kitchen", 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 4504-7. These postcards started to be produced in 1924, when the dollhouse first went on public display.

SERIES V: NURSERY AND KITCHEN

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V: 4504: THE ROYAL KITCHEN.

In the Queen's Dolls’ House every room and every corner of every room seems to have been the subject of infinite care and forethought. The Kitchen is no exception. Range, hot plate, pastry ovens, all with movable doors and sliding trays, pots and pans of gold and copper. This reads like a catalogue from a fairy tale, but more is left to tell. There are two noble dressers, on which stand Doulton jars for sugar, salt, currants, etc., and a mincing machine and a coffee mill are seen on the table.

— Raphael Tuck & Sons, Postcard 4504-7, -

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