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Silver is precious, and these 'toys' were not childrens' playthings. They could be collected and displayed in the dolls' houses that became increasingly popular in the eighteenth century, or assembled in cabinets as objects to amuse and treasure. This example probably dates from the 19th century, when dolls houses furnished with silver toys were increasingly collectors' items rather than tools intended to educate the daughter of a wealthy household in her future duties as mistress of the house.","physicalDescription":"Silver, miniature ladder-back arm chair, the seat roughly engraved to imitate rush work.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"soldering","id":"AAT53949"},{"text":"engraving","id":"AAT53829"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Silver, cut into flat sections and soldered together; engraving.","categories":[{"text":"Dolls & Toys","id":"THES48967"},{"text":"Silver","id":"THES251836"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"YVA","id":"THES48593"},"images":["2006AU1127"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"CA002","id":"THES388277"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Armchair","id":"AAT37776"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Netherlands","id":"x29020"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1800-1900","earliest":"1800-01-01","latest":"1900-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"M.118A-1941","id":"O383636"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"Bequest of Miss Phoebe Marks","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"6.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"21/12/2024","earliest":"2024-12-21","latest":"2024-12-21"},"part":"","note":"Dimension taken from register, which records height as 2½ inches."},{"dimension":"Width","value":"3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"21/12/2024","earliest":"2024-12-21","latest":"2024-12-21"},"part":"","note":"Dimension taken from register, where it is given as 1¼ inches."}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Dagger-shaped mark punched on chair, the Dutch silver standard mark for small silver items. Probably the dagger form for the period 1814-1905.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"This silver ‘toy’ is one of 154 silver 'toys' that Miss Phoebe Marks left to the Museum on her death in November 1940. She had inherited some of the pieces from her mother, and the rest of her collection had been put together by her brother, Murray Marks (1840-1918). Murray was one of the best-known dealers in paintings and decorative art objects of the 1860s onwards, who sold (and donated) items of furniture, porcelain and sculpture to the South Kensington Museum (as the V&A then was).\r\nThe V&A was not the only beneficiary of Phoebe’s generosity. In her will she left money to various charitable causes, including the Jewish Board of Guardians (now Jewish Care) to help poor Jewish immigrants, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Battersea Dogs’ Home and ‘to each of my maids Cornelia Rose Ripsher and Caroline Beatrice Ripsher the sum of two thousand pounds’. Cornelia was her cook, and Caroline her house parlour maid.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"miniature armchair, silver, Dutch, 1800-1900, 'dagger' standard mark, probably for the period 1814-1905","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Whetstone, W.B., D.V. Niklewicz and L.L. Matula, eds, <u>World Hallmarks, Volume 1: Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium Hallmarks of Europe 19th to 21st Centuries </u> (San Francisco: Hallmark Research Institute, 2010),  ISBN 13 9780979762819"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Poliakoff, Miranda. <u>Silver Toys & Miniatures</u>. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, ?1986."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["M.118-1941"],"accessionNumberNum":"118","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1941,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-12-23","recordCreationDate":"2009-07-01","availableToBook":false}}