One glassed-off nook of a room is crammed with porcelain-faced dolls in 19th-century clothing, sitting in vintage model carriages and propped up in wrought iron bedsteads, as if in a miniaturized, overcrowded Victorian orphanage. Skinny Dutch wooden dolls from the end of the 19th century, dolls in “traditional” Japanese or Chinese dress. Dolls with cheery countenances, dolls with stern expressions. One-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Victorian dolls, rare dolls with wax faces. Dolls with porcelain faces, with “true-to-life” painted ragdoll faces, with mops of real hair atop their heads, with no hair at all. Dolls with “sleepy eyes”, with staring, glass eyes. Its small rooms house a large, haphazard collection of antique and vintage toys – tin cars and trains board games from the 1920s figures of animals and people in wood, plastic, lead paint-chipped and faintly dangerous-looking rocking horses stuffed teddy bears from the early 20 th century even – purportedly – a 4,000 year old mouse fashioned from Nile clay.Īnd dolls. Pollock’s Toy Museum is one of London’s loveliest small museums, a creaking Dickensian warren of wooden floors, low ceilings, threadbare carpets, and steep, winding stairs, housed in two connected townhouses.
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