Clearance Sale Of Old Handmade Items In Preparation For Closure

With just over three weeks to go before KT Miniatures closes as a business due to my retirement, I am having a clearing of yet more forgotten items that I came across in yet another box in my old workroom! This time I found some of my vintage style set pieces  containing old packaging, boxes, ephemera etc. I used to make all this old packaging and ephemera, then incorporate them into these set pieces, and sold them over many years. They were purposely made to look old and well used, so that they could sit in a vintage dolls house, as well as a more modern reproduction dolls house or miniature scene. 

Handmade Attic Set (x 3 pieces)

HANDMADE ATTIC SET

Old Cardboard Box With  Fixed Vintage Style School Exercise Books & Old School Wall Map. 

Tatty Old Box Filled With Fixed Old Letters & Envelopes, Standing On Pages Of Old Daily Mirror Newspaper

Various Vintage UK Maps In Old Tatty Box, Standing On Old Open Map

Handmade Shed Set (x 3 Pieces)

HANDMADE SHED SET

Old Packaging, Rusty Tins, Seed Catalogue, Old Newspapers In Tatty Box, etc. All Items Fixed. 

Various Vintage Packaging, Mock Wooden Box, Rusty Old Tins, All Fixed Onto Old Newspaper. 

Vintage Style Screw Boxes Fixed To Old Newspaper Page. 

Both of these sets went up for sale on KT Miniatures website this morning, at a reduced price from what they used to be sold. 

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Rare - Vintage Grecon Queen Coronation Doll

 This rare vintage Grecon Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Doll was sold within five minutes of going up for sale on KT Miniatures website last Friday! Unsurprising really, as this particular doll is becoming incredibly rare - particularly one that is in such good condition. 

The previous owner bought this from Hamleys, the famous toy store in London, back in 1953, the year of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Apparently she was quite expensive back then,as you can imagine, and then for many decades she has sat in a box unseen. So it was time for her to move on to pastures new. 

Grecon dolls are instantly recognisable, with their stuffed fabric heads, woollen hair, drawn on facial features, woollen bound  wired frame and painted lead feet. This doll stands at a height of just over 4" to the top of her crown. 

The sewn on printed fabric Grecon label is still firmly intact on this doll...it is often lost on Grecon dolls that have been well played with. 

However, I don't think this doll was ever played with much as she is fully intact and in great condition. Her dress is made from a lovely white decorative fabric. Underneath her dress is a pretty white pleated fabric petticoat and her lead shoes are painted white. 

Her crown is made from colourful beads, red velvet and white felt. The brooch attached to her blue ribbon sash is made from a metal embellishment and bead. She has a lovely white bead necklace and additional gold braid around her neck, plus down her front. 

She has a magnificent red velvet train edged in white felt and backed with white fabric. 

Around her majesty's shoulders at the top of the train is a felt collar stitched in black thread decoration. 

On the end of the train is a gold coloured metal crown plus some decorative gold braid. 

What an absolute gem of a doll this is, really stunning and I feel very privileged to have handled her. She has now gone to a good home. 

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FOOTNOTE: A big thank you to the new owner of the above Grecon Queen Coronation Doll, who has allowed me to show her in situ at her new home. 

What an amazing collection of Grecon Dolls! 😊

KT Miniatures Closing Very Soon!

Well, the time has come to announce that after 28 years of trading, at the end of next month KT Miniatures will be closing...I am retiring. KT Miniatures as a business will be no more and I will no longer sell off my website, therefore these next few weeks will be your last chance to order items by mail order. 

When I say that I am retiring, to be honest it will be semi-retirement as I will continue to run my miniature workshops from Thame and also attend the Haddenham Antique & Vintage Fair every fourth Sunday of the month, but instead of a business it will be under my own name privately. Also, I have finally succumbed (on the advice of my children) and signed up to Instagram...more about that below. But for those not on social media, KT Miniatures Journal (ie. blog) will continue.

Meanwhile, today I have put up for sale some rather special miniatures which I would very much like to go to a good home. They have all come from my own collection and are now surplus to requirements.

Also put up for sale today is this rare Grecon Queen doll, which was brought out to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

Click here for further photos and full details: 

https://ktminiatures.com/

Am Now On Instagram!

After years of trying to avoid social media, I have finally relented. So with my kids help, I am now on Instagram as "vintagektminiatures".

https://www.instagram.com/vintagektminiatures/

Haddenham Antique & Vintage Fair

On Sunday I will be at HADDENHAM ANTIQUE & VINTAGE FAIR as usual with an array of other lovely miniatures for sale that are not currently on the website. I hope you can come, it would be great to see you. 

Click here for details: 

https://ktminiatures.com/fairs/