Monday, April 12, 2010

Antique Toy Kitchen Cupboard

I love miniature toy cupboards. They can be used to set up delightful vignettes for dolls or teddy bears, but they're also just lots of fun to stock. Searching for just the right tiny utensils, or doll-sized pots and pans, or salesman's samples of food items, and then arranging and rearranging the contents can consume me for hours. It only took me a few minutes, however, to load up this circa 1900s-1920s handmade kitchen cupboard, found at an antique show over the weekend. It measures 18 inches tall, and has all of its original hardware. Its primitive charm and obvious wear just endeared it to me, and I find myself wondering how it was filled by the little girl who owned it almost 100 years ago.


For a sense of scale, here's the toy cupboard sitting on top of my real-life Hoosier cabinet:

2 comments:

  1. I like the cabinets a lot, but I'm even more fond of the miniature food packages.

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  2. Love the cabinet!!! You always fill them to perfection, love the little miniatures.

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