Posted 6 years ago
GosforthPArk
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This polished hollow wooden? egg contains 2 plates, 2 cups and 4 variously shaped vessels. There are also 2 handles with wire hooks on the end. All items are polished wood. This has come down through the family and we have no idea what it is for. It could be a tea? set for a doll's house - but what are the hooks for? They can't pick any of the items up - if you try you just knock it over - and why two of them?
Can anyone enlighten me please?
Very interesting little set. The ones with hooks look like utensils you might hang in the kitchen. The wood is quite interesting to me. It looks to be spalted sycamore wood.
I have a some furnished doll houses and just love your little set! But I don't think they are for furnishing a doll house because the egg case just would not make sense for that. However, if you were a child and wanted to have a tea party with your dolly, then this is perfect!
It is very tricky handling tiny objects like this even for an adult trying to be careful, so it is even worse for a child to handle then without breaking or knocking everything over.
I think the tiny hooks are for the tea party participants to use for picking up their tiny stemmed goblets so they can put the goblets to the lips of their dollies without messing everything on the table up by knocking over goblets or even breaking them at the stems.
Try picking a goblet up with a hook and see if that makes it a smooth and easy process to offer the doll a sip!