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dolls houses & dolls house furniture
1/24th scale (half scale), 1/12th scale & commissions
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Prices are for 1/24th and 1/12th scale furniture.  1/16th scale same price as 1/12th

Trestle Table, Benches & Stool
(as a set but can be bought individually)
16th century onwards.  A long table designed to seat all the family. The table top rested on trestles, which were fixed in place by a central stretcher.  During the early part of this period it was usual to sit on benches or settles; chairs were rare. The stool was not only used as a seat but also for children to stand upon to reach the table.
1/24th - £26.75 the set
1/12th - £35.95 the set

Trestle Table
1/24th - £12.25
1/12th - £16.75

Trestle Bench
1/24th - £6.25
1/12th - £8.25

Stool
1/24th - £4.25
1/12th - £5.25

Settle
16th century onwards.  Often positioned by the fire in the living room/kitchen.  A high back and sides to keep draughts away. Choice of sides - ‘straight’ curve or ‘balloon’ curve.
1/24th - £12.25 each
1/12th - £16.75 each

Panelled Chest
17th century onwards.  Used for storage and also additional seating. At this time bent nails were used as hinges.  Such chests were still in use many centuries later.
1/24th - £15.75
1/12th - £18.75

Plain Chest
As above but without the decorative panelling. Usually for ‘out of sight’ storage in lofts and bedrooms.
1/24th - £14.25
1/12th - £17.25

Chicken Dresser
(with lifting coop door)
Late 18th century onwards. Hens will not lay in the cold, so they were brought in during the winter. The central section of the dresser lifted up to allow the hens in and out of the coop.
1/24th - £27.75
1/12th - £33.95

Back Stool
17th century onwards.  The first type of chair to be used in smaller homes, such as farmhouses, etc. As its name suggests, it was in fact a stool with an upright back attached.
1/24th - £9.25
1/12th - £13.25

Cottage Table and Chair Set
(as a set but can be bought individually)
18th century onwards.  A basic planked table and two simple ladder-back chairs with wooden seats. These would have been made by local carpenters for the ordinary working classes.
Also available painted either green or cream.
1/24th - £26.75 the set;   painted - £29.15
1/12th - £39.95 the set;   painted - £42.35

Spinning Wheel and Stool
Most farms spun their own wool and so owned a spinning wheel.  Originally, the wheel was hand-turned but later it had a treadle fitted to enable both hands to be used to wind and twist the wool.
1/24th - £29.95
1/12th - £39.95

Chicken Dresser with chickens (1/24th scale only)
As above but comes straw-lined and with an assortment of at least three different chickens (actual chickens may vary from those shown).
1/24th - £39.75
For additional poultry, see under Barn

Pembroke Table
As above but with fixed, non-opening leaves.
1/24th - £14.95
1/12th - £21.95

Scroll-back Windsor Chair
Late 19th century onwards. The uprights on this chair curve backwards at the top and are joined by two rails. The legs are connected with a H-shaped stretcher.  These chairs were very common in working class homes of the Victorian era.
1/24th - £14.95
1/12th - £19.95

Lath-back Windsor Chair
Mid 19th century onwards.  Developed from the comb-back stick chair. Laths had replaced the earlier sticks and were topped by a heavy rail. The legs are joined by a H-shaped stretcher.  A popular seat in cottages and smaller homes.
1/24th - £14.95
1/12th - £19.95

Pembroke Table
Victorian but named after the person who first ordered one in the 18th century.  This is a humbler version that became common in kitchens during the 19th century.  A drop leaf table with opening leaves supported by brackets that swing out from the frame sides. Two mock drawers at either end.
1/24th - £25.95
1/12th - £32.95

Boarded Stool
Middle Ages onwards. Stools were the most usual form of seating until chairs became more commonplace during the mid 17th century.
1/24th - £3.95
1/12th - £4.95

Ash Box (with ashes)
From the 16th century (one was found in the wreakage of the Mary Rose).  Used for carrying hot ashes from the fire.
1/24th - £3.95
1/12th - £4.95

Bread Car
From Middle Ages through to 19th century.  Bread and other items of food were stored out of reach of vermin in a bread car suspended from the ceiling with chains.
1/24th - £13.25
1/12th - £18.00

Griddle
Used over an open fire by suspending from a chimney crane to cook clap bread (unleven bread) and oatcakes.
1/24th - £1.50
1/12th - £2.00

Potboard Dresser
18th century onwards.  A dresser was originally a board or table on which one ‘dressed’ the food before serving it.  This example has a potboard at the base on which large pots, etc. could be stored, three opening drawers, and a shelf unit on which to stand plates.
1/24th - £29.95
1/12th - £39.95

Joined Table
1/24th - £8.95
1/12th - £13.75

Joined Bench
1/24th - £5.95
1/12th - £9.45

Joined (Refectory) Table and Bench Set
(as a set but can be bought individually)
17th century onwards.  A long dining table with the table top fixed to the under-framing and legs. The legs were joined at the bottom by stretchers.
1/24th - £18.75 a set;
1/12th - £29.45 a set

Country Stick-back (Comb-back Windsor) Chair
18th century onwards.  Stick-back chairs were made in country areas by local carpenters for many years before they were mass-produced and became known as Windsor chairs.  This, the earliest type, had plain stick legs and a plain seat. It was called a comb-back chair because the tall sticks at the back resembled a wide-toothed comb.
1/24th - £17.75;         1/12th - £22.75

Court Cupboard
17th century onwards.  Used for the storage of pewter, crockery, linen and dry foods. Virtually all Lakeland houses would have had a ‘bread cupboard’, as they were commonly known, for storing the home-made clap bread.
1/24th - £49.95
1/12th - £64.50

Simple Cupboard & Shelf Unit
18th century onwards. Commonly fitted together to form a simple dresser in cottages.  Often found within alcoves, such as that between chimney breast and wall. Available in either cream or green, both slightly distressed.
Shelf Unit - 1/24th - £6.60;     1/12th - £8.60
Cupboard - 1/24th - £8.60;     1/12th - £12.60

Simple Cottage Table
1/24th - £8.25
painted - £10.65
1/12th - £11.75
painted - £15.15

Simple Ladder-Back Chair
1/24th - £10.25
painted - £12.65
1/12th - £15.75
painted - £18.15