THE PERFECT DOLL’S HOUSE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19671, 13 December 1933, Page 10

THE PERFECT DOLL’S HOUSE

A perfectly equipped doll’s house, every piece of which was made by one man, has been completed after six months’ work by a Teddington shoemaker. states a writer in the “Daily Mirror.” He is Mr A. Gill, of Down Road. Teddington. He started to make the doll’s house last January, as a toy for his nine-year-old daughter, who is at the Royal Deaf and Dumb School, Margate. “I intended, at first, that it should be a simple little house,” Mr Gill told me, “but I enjoyed the work so much that I kept adding more to it.” The finished article was so exceptional that the organisers of the Teddington Hospital fete asked Mr Gill to show it at the fete in aid of charity. He did so, and as a result was offered £BO for it. Mr Gill refused the offer, as the doll’s house was his daughter’s toy. In the house are four rooms, and a bathroom, all fitted with furniture, while adjoining it are a garage and a conservatory. The conservatory alone w'ould send any child into raptures, for it contains little pots of flowers and a realistic grape-vine, from which hang miniature bunches of luscious black grapes made from little balls such as are used to decorate cakes. The utmost economy has been used in the making of the model. The tiny door-knobs are the tops of tooth-paste tubes, and parts of an old wireless set were beaten out by Mr Gill to make a set of toy fire-irons. Electric batteries hidden in the attic provide the illumination, and each room has its own lamp and a little switch. Even the curtains and carpets are Mr Gill’s work, and there is one handsome carpet made of pieces of velvet ribbon pasted on American cloth to form a pretty pattern.