QUEEN AT THE FAIR

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 11

QUEEN AT THE FAIR

NUMEROUS PURCHASES GIFTS FOR GRANDCHILDREN/ (From "The Post's" Representative.) . '.LONDON, 2nd March. The King ar.d Queen remained more than two and a half hours at the British Industries Pair. His Majesty was able to spend a good deal of time at tho Empire Marketing Board's stands while the Queen, was making purchases elsewhere. The Queen's purchases were made in nearly every part of the 'exhibition. Many pretty things, especially those in light blue or jade green, caught •her attention. Blue in particular .was her favourite col..ur. She bought five blue leather bags, a blue vase of Moorcroft's, and some e.bluo Monart glass 1 ware, and a ginger jar in blue. The velvet curtains that she chose from Warner and Sons' exhibit were a reproduction of a Chinese blue vase pat-' tern and a scheme in old gold on a blue ground. The only coffee sol: she bought was described as shagreen. The lid of an onyx powder bowl she chose was also of shagreen.' Many of the stallholders were surprised at the quantities of goods that the Queen bought. At tho Indurite stall she ordered'1 two dozen powder bowls in mottled brown and mottled blue, having been interested in them first by their delicate colours and then by'the information' that tho material from which they were made was a byproduct in the , manufacture of paper. At the samo time she bought two dozen cigarette boxes of a like material. A dozen small cruets in various colours and -a dozen bright-coloured jam pots w.ere' chosen from the display of celadon ware of the JCeele Street Pottery Company. Her Majesty took a dozen' -jam pots also from the Brought Pottery: Company. Three dozen sets of the toy tin tea-sets were' ordered from a toy stall, and the Queen bought some lead soldiers and some toy kitchen utensils. Two dozen cheap photograph frames in a new type of celluloid were ordered, and Her Majesty also took a dozen each of three kinds of clockwork toys representing a limousine ,a delivery van, and. an ambulance. ■ PRESENTS FOR GRANDCHILDREN. Many of. these purchases were evidently intended for the Queen's grandchildren. She bought a wooden ,"Ben Hur" chariot, complete with four horses, from the Faversham firm of disabled exrServiee men. She bought an aluminium toy tea-set at another stall, a toy crumb' set with a blue pan, and two dressed dolls. She bought also a nursery rug bearing in pink and orange the picture of 80-peep with her sheep. Among tho rest were. several articles suggesting the Queen's tolerance of modern fashions which she has not adopted. A lady's miniature smoking set, in jado green, complete with cigaretteholder, was one of her purchases. Her Majesty also ordered two shingle sets —neat little fancy leather, cases eon.taining a tiny brush, mirror, and comb, the last mounted in gold. Among the leather goods she found anew typo of blouse case, carrying a stumpy umbrella just under the" lid. - The case was done in blue grained hido, and the Queen bought it as soon as sho saw it. Two tiny porcelain' menu holders,' one consisting of tulips' and tho other of primroses, ' were bought from the Crown Porcelain Company, and at Doulton's Her Majesty chose a small figure of a child looking down pit to a field crowded with kingcups, a charming ornament rather .inconspicuous in : a corner of the" cabinet. . Tho only fur "she', bought consisted of two sots of moufflon trimmings for ladies' coats, in cedar and elephant grey..