3-004-006 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Dolls for a toy theatre, 1861. 'The characters are wooden cones having dolls' heads, dressed to represent the Dramatis Personae. They are placed on flat guide-sticks, which have a wire pin about an inch long, so as to allow of the instant removal of one figure and the substitution of another. By means of the guide-sticks the characters can be moved about, and the little drama is so constructed that the action of the figures can be easily controlled. The cones can be bought of a turner for about one shilling a dozen, and some fun is to be found in dressing the company'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.