Saturday 27 April 2013

Mystery Miniature Milk Crates...


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Horse cart with milk crates (and a milkwoman for a change !) -
Doris Hudson delivering milk for the Co-op Dairy in Disraeli Street, Middlesbrough(UK) in 1956


If you are a vintage toy car collector, 
you might know where these miniature milk crates belong...

Milk crates
Miniature lead milk crates (1.9 x 1.6 cm)

I got them in a lot of 1930s-1960s dollhouse items... They are very well made and pretty heavy (made of lead ?) and also tiny... The white paint has rubbed off in places... I would love to be able to remove and replace individually the little bottles of milk (Mind you, they could have gone missing)... Still they would look good as a prop in any scene of that scale and they have a real 50s feel to them...  


I am quite sure they were not originally meant for a dollhouse but rather, I imagine, belong to a vintage miniature milkman's van or float ? Could they originally be from a large 50s Lesney horse drawn milk cart (Made in England) ? Some of their small scale milk crates look like these...

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http://www.dream-tintoys.de/index.php?page=lesney


Well certainly, you Reader and Mrs Peel are needed to help solve the milk crate riddle... 
Careful, coming off the milk float though...


The Avengers - The Hour that Never Was (Series 4 - 1965)



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