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Copyright for text and photographs J. Oakes, strictly no reproduction without prior permission, please email. |
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Perambulators’ The Acorn Collection Past & Present’. £5.50 + P & P. (Available worldwide) A 28 page booklet showing the prams currently in the Acorn Collection and some that have now found new homes, also including dolls prams, history and restoration pages, plus some lovely sepia pictures. Written and printed by myself. A5 size, in colour. (Copies of the sepia pictures can be printed to your required size upon request.) |
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Campbell & Co of Manchester Catalogue 1880’s. £15.00 + P & P. (Avaliable worldwide) This digitally enhanced 32 page copy dates to around the mid to late 1880’s. Campbell & Co is thought to have been taken over by the Wilson family who owned and ran Silver Cross. A5 size, it includes 38 illustrations of some beautiful prams and mailcart's, in full colour. |
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Baby Bottles & Infant Feeding Throughout The Ages. £6.50 + P & P. (Avaliable worldwide) A 50 page book containing almost 100 illustrations of babies bottles and other related items, most illustrations are black and white drawings, though there are a couple of pictures, adverts and patent line drawings. Written and printed by myself in an effort to pull together all the bits and pieces I found when researching the subject as a collector. A5 size.
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Baby’s Bottles ‘The Acorn Collection’. £4.50 + P & P. (Avaliable worldwide) A 24 page booklet including a short history and pictures of bottles from the late 1700’s through to plastic bottles from the 80’s and 90’s, pap boats and other miscellaneous feeding items all of which are part of the ‘Acorn Collection’. Written and printed by myself. A5 size, in full colour.
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Booklet on the Cow & Gate feeding Bottle Collection. (Copy) £2.50 + P & P. (Avaliable worldwide) An 10 page copy of a Cow & Gate booklet showing over 100 items in their infant feeding collection, very interesting and a good reference guide, also included a short history guide to the Cow & Gate company. A5 size which is smaller than the original.
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American Catalogue of Nursery Items c1930’s/40’s. £2.50 + P&P. (Avaliable worldwide) (Copy) This digitally enhanced copy of an 11 page catalogue by Uhlen Carriage Co. of Paul Street, Rochester, New York shows nursery items such as Rock-A-Bye Swings, Walkers, Nursery Furniture and Porch or Door Gates, similar to the one shown on ’The Victorian Nursery’ page, plus other interesting items. |
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Pediatric Antiques. £5.50 + P&P. (Avaliable worldwide) (Copy) This digitally enhanced copy of an 48 page booklet shows the many antique baby bottles plus other interesting pediatric antiques items, such as a ’bleeding bowl’, drug dispensing pots and statuettes, in ‘The Mead Johnson Collection’, the date it was produced is not known but I would guess that it may be around the early to mid 1900’s. |
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Rivett & Campbell of Manchester Catalogue 1898. £12.50 + P&P. (Avaliable worldwide) (Copy) This digitally enhanced 28 page copy dates to 1898. Campbell & Co is thought to have been taken over by the Wilson family who owned and ran Silver Cross. A5 size, it includes 27 illustrations of some beautiful prams and mailcart's, in black and white.
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Childhood Memorabilia ‘The Acorn Collection’. £4.50 + P&P. (Avaliable worldwide) A 20 page booklet containing pictures of many of the items that can be seen in this web site, such as rattles, dummies, dolls, clothing, toys and ‘The Victorian Nursery’, Written and printed myself. A5 size.
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