Featured Miniature stuff

My mother loved anything in miniature. I just found a box full of charms and things that I used to play with. There are more, but here's a sampling. I know a couple of them are probably old Monopoli pieces.

 

Bev, is that a teapot on the top left side of the screen (I "think" I see a spout)? It is so sweet (translation -- I really like it).

 

Those little sewing thingies are SO COOL!

 

I think some might also be Christmas Pudding and Cracker charms.

 

Cracker Jack prizes?

 

Yes, it's a teapot. That's always been my favorite. The little scissors actually open. I can't figure out why they're together with a dagger in a scabbard or a cross, but my mother probably did it. Here are a couple of close ups.

 

That teapot is sweet!

 

I'd love to put some of her stuff on a charm bracelet, but I'm not a delicate sort and would probably mangle it if I wore it.

 

Not Crackerjack but Christmas Crackers. Canada does them I think, but not the US.

 

I knew what you meant, owned. But Cracker Jack included lots of little plastic "prizes" too, so I figured some might have been acquired that way.

 

Yep. I have a hand full of them myself.

 

Start your own 'choking hazard' museum.

Could the linked ones be gold?

 

Choking Museum!!!! Love that!

 

Actually, limiting it to choking hazards, as they call stuff, is too limited.
I'd make a display of all the stuff that was not considered dangerous in the 1950s, and is now either banned or covered in warning labels.

Once upon a time the only warning label was 'wet paint'. and that was just a signal to touch it to see if it was really wet.

 

Oooo,love the teapot ! And the black bulldog ! And the little knife !

 

I love the teapot, too! I'm always drawn to miniatures.

 

They are adorable. I think I have a similar elephant one in my jewelry box from when I was a kid.

 

Those are items that would have been on a chatelaine

https://www.google.com/search?q=cha...4gKHZdvC-QQ_AUIBygB&biw=1409&bih=986&dpr=0.85

 

The little yellow blob is a glass elephant, but not very detailed.