Two Dolls Houses Just Gone Up For Sale

Have been continuing to list unsold stock from last week's fair onto my website this weekend....amongst which are these two lovely and very old dolls houses - both of which you have seen before on KT Miniatures Journal, therefore will keep this brief!

So....this c1930s-1940s Hobbies 186 Special is now up for sale on KT Miniatures.

 

In restored condition with antique wallpapers, this is simply ready to move into!

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The second house to have gone up for sale today is this truly wonderful and rare c1930s dolls house complete with furniture.

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Lovely Pit-a-Pat .....Including A Rare Item!

The handmade miniatures from my Exclusive Items Range have more or less now been listed and updated  on KT Miniatures website so am moving onto listing a lot of vintage and antique items. As you know, I am a lover of anything c1930s.....and particularly anything made by Pit-a-Pat. At the moment, unusually, I have several of these particular pieces available including one quite rare item that we have not had in before......even though it is missing the broom, I think it is gorgeous!

It consists of a wooden stand with three attractive metal clips. Although the broom is missing, the original mop and carpet sweeper are still intact.

The sweeper is wooden with metal wheels and the mop has a wooden handle plus a wonderful woollen mop head which can be manipulated!

There are also some bedroom pieces including this dressing table and wardrobe, all refreshingly in excellent played with condition.

Most of the Pit-a-Pat items that are currently for sale still have their original red and black labels on - such as this one seen here.

Another Pit-a-Pat favourite of mine is the hearth with the two tiny rexine covered seats, one each end. How wonderful is that...and sooooo very 1930s!!!!! Currently, there is also a fireplace for sale, that goes with this hearth.....all in completely original condition.

 

Finally, another little Pit-a-Pat piece that we don't get in very often is this wonderful stepladder, solid and in great condition. Seen here is the Pit-a-Pat ink stamped trade mark, situated on the side of the ladder. 

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I shall be continuing to list more vintage stock today and over the weekend......and will highlight some more of the special and more unusual pieces on here, at the same time. So do please keep checking KT Miniatures website and please don't hesitate to get in touch if you would like to order anything.  

A Bit Of Website Jiggling Plus Lots Of New Handmade Goodies!

Stocktaking, photographing new stock, listing items up onto the website and jiggling the website around a bit has proved more time consuming than I first imagined today....but am pleased to say that various new handmade goodies have been added to KT Miniatures, so are now available for sale. There is a new access page set up with an image of a little 1930s dolls house so now you can come in and visit the various rooms! Hopefully this will make navigating a little easier.

There are some wooden beds with mesh bases including mattresses in the Bedroom range....and some little set pieces to sit under a bed too.

Various kitchen enamel top tables slightly aged, kitchen wall cupboards filled with 1930s/40s packaging,  scullery items including packaging and scullery tables filled are now available on the newly named

Kitchen & Scullery Page.

Various fixed sets are now available on the Childhood page, including these 1930s schools books, poster and map.  For something a little different and a change in era, are some tiny sets of real vintage plastic dolls sitting amongst replicas of 1930s books and a 1950s children's dictionary.

Various new items can now be found on the Living/Dining Room page including some 1930s fire screens and another rexine effect sofa with a rather mucky throw plus handpainted '30s cushons and some books etc.

 

There are a few new items such as various vintage choccie boxes filled with old photos and sets of KT Miniatures five books, all now available on the General page.

 

And finally today, I have set up an Attic page.....as I realised that this is my favourite room of the house and many of my creations could fit into this category.

I hope to get the Shed,Outhouse & Outdoors page sorted tomorrow...then I can embark on loading literally dozens of vintage items (I kid you not) including dolls houses.

All my handmade items have been given an aged look so are suitable to be used with both modern reproduction dolls houses as well as vintage.

FANTASTIC NEWS FROM LAST SATURDAY'S FAIR!

I have heard this afternoon from Felicity, the organiser of Thame Fair, that the current total raised for Breast Cancer Campaign at Thame Fair on Saturday is a magnificent £2,921.02!!! With quite a bit more still yet to come in...so fingers crossed, we are on course to well exceed £3,000...which is amazing, particularly so in this current difficult economical climate.

THANK YOU AGAIN TO EVERYONE WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE!

All Over For Another Year - Big Listing About To Begin!

Well...it's all over for another year....but needless to say Thame Dolls House & Miniatures Fair was a tremendous success...smiles all round. As soon as we have a current total of monies raised for Breast Cancer Campaign from the organisers I will let you know....but it is complicated as there will be money to come in from all over the place and will continue to do so over the next couple of weeks.

Molly is having to take a nap after all that wrapping up of the first lot of raffle prizes - seen here all waiting for despatch to the lucky winners!

I still have several raffle prize winners to contact so if  you bought a raffle ticket last Saturday at the fair and your phone rings....hey, IT COULD BE YOU....as that famous saying goes!! 

Congratulations and an enormous THANK YOU to

Michelle Rice of Hemel Hempstead

who placed the magnificent winning bid of £300 in the charity Sealed Bid Auction. 

We hope to bring you more about the auction on our Nostalgia In Miniature Workshop Blog very soon, as both Robin and I will be meeting Michelle shortly.  I must also thank everyone - artisans, customers, public and all the volunteers who contributed to the charity part of the event. Please spare a thought for the volunteers on the charity Sales Table who worked their little socks off from as soon as the doors opened, right up to the very end. Jill and Melodie as always, were in complete control along with their helpers from the MTM club and Norma......a visitor to the fair who has now helped the ladies behind the table two years running. What absolute stars you all are!!!!

Finally, I would just like to congratulate Felicity and Ron Holland the organisers for putting on such a brilliant fair. Now with two Thame Fairs under their belt, I am utterly thrilled and confident that I passed it onto two very capable pairs of hands!! The quality of artisans that came on Saturday was just superb and the atmosphere terrific.

Now.....although I had a truly brilliant trading day, met many of you and had some wonderful chats, met up with old friends and made a few new ones, there is of course the inevitable unsold stock to list onto the website.  I have spent the past two days recovering from the huge effort involved in preparing for the fair.....am utterly exhausted. Only managed to unload the stock out of the car yesterday and carry up two flights of stairs! But after a stocktake I will begin to list all the handmade items first under the Exclusive Items Range..... then later in week,the vintage items, so watch this space!!! It is very time consuming so will take some time to complete. However,  I will highlight some of them on here shortly....most of them can be used with both modern reproduction houses and vintage houses, as they have been given the usual KT Miniatures aged look!

PS. If the gentleman who placed a reserve on the 1930s House on Saturday but failed to return to the stand to leave his full details, is reading this...please get in touch urgently. Sorry but if I don't hear from you within the next 24 hours, then the house will go up for general sale.

Final Thame Fair Update....Honest!!!

Preparations are now in place and KT Miniatures is ready for Thame Fair on Saturday! We are Stand No 29, in our usual place in the Main Hall near the exit doors. To view an interactive floor plan, CLICK HERE.

To see the latest on my Thame Fair Stock List.....PLEASE CLICK HERE. 

The doors open at 10.00am and close at 4.00pm. Hope you can come....it should be a wonderful day! There are 46 miniaturist artisans, many ranking amongst the finest in the UK, an exhibition by MTM Of Thame, plus various fundraising attractions including raffle, competitions, auction and sales table. You are more than welcome to bring unwanted miniature items on the day to donate to the lovely volunteers on the sales table. All fundraising will be in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign.

NB. We will not have the facility to accept credit cards on the day. Also to remind you that cheque garantee cards are no longer valid so on cheques over £10.00 proof of address as well as signature is required. There are plenty of cash machines situated down Thame High Street, which is about 8 minutes walk from Thame Leisure Centre.

Finally.....just a reminder that the auction closes to online bidding and postal voting tomorrow at 18.00pm GMT. However, visitors to Thame Fair on Saturday can bid in person. For full details of the auction....CLICK HERE.