- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fireworks and plant pith toys in a glass tube. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 31/1/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Louisa Robinson Douglas Lightfoot
- PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
- Date / Period
- Date made: On or before 1866
- Date collected
- ?On or before 1866
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 08/03/1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Pith, Material Gunpowder, Process Printed
- Dimensions
- Length: max 150 mm tube
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.1.87.1 Accession number: 1886.1.87.2 Accession number: 1886.1.87.3 Accession number: 1886.1.87.4 Accession number: 1886.1.87.5 Accession number: 1886.1.87.6
- Research and responses
Information about Mrs Lightfoot located in Donor Index cards in the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities [L.Ph 25/3/2004]
Search terms: Toy and Game, Toy
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