View Full Details. This is a complete board game of marble solitaire with a large turned maple board from the 20th century and handmade clay or stone marbles from the midth century. The circular This is a complete marble solitaire game, having a beautiful hardwood board and a complete set of 37 clay or stone handmade marbles, all dating to the midth century Victorian peri This is an original and complete game of Marble Solitaire with a very good polished hand turned hardwood board and 33 early clay and stone marbles, all dating to the midth century This is a complete game of marble solitaire from the late 19th century.
The circular turned board is made of a light coloured hardwood, probably Ash. The board has 32 equi-spaced This is a very attractive complete game of Marble Solitaire with a hand turned hardwood board and 33 beautiful agate mineral stone marbles, probably French and all dating to the firs This is a complete combination board game of marble solitaire and tiddlywinks, dating to the early 20th century.
This is a most unusual and very decorative game set with a beautif This is an original and complete game of Marble Solitaire with a heavy hardwood board and 33 early clay and stone marbles, all dating to the midth century, Victorian period, or po You May Also Like.
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Makes a great wall piece. Unknown maker. Wooden Folk Art game board for chess or checkers. The large board is hand crafted with inlay surrounding each individual square. The frame of the board has a slight bevel adding to A compliment for many interiors as a display or decorative piece, i. Ralph Lauren or the game aficion By Joseph Schneider. This is like a flat board pin ball machine game. This marble game board is in fantastic condition.
Minor wear consistent with age and use. Signed by the manufacture. Like today it was more popular with girls than boys. Rich Victorian families would buy Skipping ropes with fancy hand carved handles but the poor families could easily make their own.
Automata toys were usually made of wood and had moving parts powered by a hand crank. The teacher and students in the Automata toy pictured would move at different intervals depending on the gear work located under the floor. In a world without video games and the like, Victorian children would be fascinated for hours playing with this toy. It was mostly a toy for rich children but could be made by hand if the father of a poor family was good at working with wood.
But a young man in the Victorian age loved playing with toy soldiers. Marbles are still played with today but are starting to fade away a little. Marbles were a popular Victorian Toy. You could play many games with marbles.
Poor children usually had marbles made of clay while the rich kids might have marbles made from real marble. As with all children from the olden days up to now there is a great desire to emulate their parents. They want to act grown up just like their parents.
They could gather their friends around a table and have a nice little tea party of their own, just like their mother.
Miniature Tea Sets were a toy that rich Victorian Kids played with for the most part. The object of the game was to keep the hoop rolling as long as possible.
Children played this game outside and many times it would be played as a competition between several children to see who could roll the hoop the farthest. Pictured to the left is a Victorian Age Kaleidoscope. A child could look through one end and see a brightly colored design at the other end. As the child would twist or shake the Kaleidoscope and the psychedelic design would change into another design and the more it was repeated the more it would change.
This was a fascinating toy for a child in those days. At the bottom of the page is a video of what one might see while looking through a Kaleidoscope. One might say that this was actually the beginning of movies and eventually television as we know it today. Actually some of the early Disney cartoons were made using this principle. There were other names for moving picture toys such as Phenakistoscope, Thaumatrope, Cinematrope and Praxinoscope.
They would usually come with extra cardboard or paper inserts so a child could change the moving picture inside. The video at the bottom of the page will explain what a Zoetrope is better than I can put into words here.
Obviously this is one toy that has been around for a long time and will be around for many years to come. It seems that at a very young age almost every little girl acquires the desire to copy their mother and care for a child or at least a good substitute for one. A doll fills that need quite well. China Dolls became popular during the Victorian age.
One reason for that popularity might have been because it was said Queen Victoria had a large collection of China Dolls from her childhood. China Dolls were very expensive and were typically owned by rich children. Dolls owned by the poorer class of children were usually handmade.
It was never that popular with children, so very few were made. There still are a couple of American marble factories. The toys are also manufactured in Mexico. A number of artisans in the United States now make handmade marbles, which are pieces of art rather than playthings. Some of them are as large as six inches in diameter. Their vibrant, rich colors and unique designs make them one-of-a-kind beautiful objects to enjoy.
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