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Current Posts => Collecting, Modding, Turning and Spin Science => Topic started by: ta0 on February 23, 2024, 10:36:53 AM
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In 1988 while doing construction work to Market Harborough Parish Church (East of Birmingham, UK), a trove of homemade street toys (http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/02/a-hoard-of-16th-and-17th-century-childrens-toys/) was found from the late Tudor and Stuart era (1570-1630). These were in a stairwell and it's believed were toys confiscated and thrown there. The Harborough Hoard (https://daventrymuseum.org.uk/the-harborough-hoard-of-street-toys/) includes 89 tops, 5 whip handles and 2 possible teetotums.
What a marvelous find!
(https://i.ibb.co/KWg3mRC/Selection-of-Harborough-Hoard-on-display-Close-up-2048x978.jpg) (https://daventrymuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Selection-of-Harborough-Hoard-on-display-Close-up-2048x978.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/BNNDLhF/image.png) (https://ibb.co/NSShx0b)
The kids may have lost their toys to the mean pastors but they are now preserved in museums for posterity.
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This photo is from finds in Germany that are older. According to this website (http://www.landschaftsmuseum.de/Seiten/Lexikon/Spiele-2.htm), they are from the excavation in Konstanz at the fish market and the Freiburger Augustinian latrine ::) and from some time after 1278.
(https://i.ibb.co/hHCsZ6V/Spielzeug-Holz-2.jpg) (http://www.landschaftsmuseum.de/Bilder/Spielzeug_Holz-2.jpg)
Interestingly, the two tops (if that's what they are) on the left upper corner look more like throw tops than whip tops.
Ortwin: you might be interested in the book from which this was taken: https://www.antikmakler.de/bv9974 (shipping to the US is too expensive).
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This image from Belgium (Album d'Arenberg (https://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=KM016066&objnr=10047851)) from the 1500's is interesting:
(https://i.ibb.co/wy9hNhK/image.png) (https://ibb.co/0qgyjyf)
The lower left shows whip tops but the lower right seems to show throw throw tops.