Tea time for The Girls in The Centennial.

Hi All, I hope you're well.

Today I received a rare, very vintage, German wooden miniature tea set, as shown in the below image. It was sent from the UK, courtesy of Claudia and Phoebe, so many thanks ladies for the wonderful set!

Needless to say that I totally love it, so minutes after arrival I had already placed it in The Centennial dolls house, and took a few pics.

Only later, while working on the photo's, it hit me why I had placed it there; or even why I had bought it. After all, everything happens for a reason (or so I believe). This set contains three cups, and as mentioned in a previous post, the ancient Centennial was made for three little girls, a hundred years ago. Three... the magical number.

Will they come for a tea, now that I have laid out a nice tea set for them? Who knows, maybe tonight, at midnight..

 

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The arrival of 19-1803.

Today saw the arrival of a vintage clockwork locomotive which I saved from the scrap heap. Constructed by Karl Bub Nürnberg (KBN) somewhere in the 1930s, and missing many of its parts, the loc was offered up for sale to serve as a spares source for other locs - a practice that in the aviation world is referred to as 'cannibalism'.

Of course I couldn't let the poor loc be further reduced to scrap, so I decided to buy it and keep it 'as is' for display purposes or use in a future project.

I think she looks beautiful in all its rusted imperfection, industrial to the core, sehr Deutsch, and totally at home in my collection of old, dilapidated toy trains and steam engines! I gave her the name "Glück", and assigned to her serial no 19-1803. I wish her a happy life!

The above and below images show the missing front of the smoke box.

The clockwork misses most of its parts. To make this old lady run again, I'd have to replace the entire unit. It's possible, but I'll leave her like this for now. Less is more, remember...?

The 'KBN' letters stamped below the cab stand for Karl Bub Nürnberg, Germany.

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