Brand: Small items
A traditional wooden straight form shoe horn, shaped from beechwood, oiled and fitted with a leather hanging strap. Useful for putting on boots, or for those with limited mobility. Made by a German family business who have been making beautiful household and grooming tools from natural materials for..
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
Brand: Small items
A 75cm long shoe or boot horn, made in Japan from bamboo. Long enough to enable the comfortable easing of feet into shoes or boots, without the need to bend over. With a rounded, tapered end to cup the heel, and a hanging loop for convenient storage between uses...
£37.50
Ex Tax:£31.25
Brand: Small items
A black-canopied, solid stick umbrella with ten steel ribs, from the workshops of Pierre Vaux in Saint-Claude, in the Jura region of eastern France. Also called English mount, solid stick umbrellas have handles and shafts made from a single piece of wood, in this case stained maple, first turned, th..
£99.50
Ex Tax:£82.92
Brand: Small items
An eight ribbed fit-up umbrella-parasol made with a honey coloured, SPF 50 rated 71% cotton canopy stretched over a steel frame, and with a maple shaft and handle. Fit-umbrellas are made in two parts, with the shaft attached 'fit-up' to the handle, this allows for a slightly lighter weight than is t..
£105.00
Ex Tax:£87.50
Brand: Small items
An eight ribbed fit-up umbrella-parasol made in a bright crimson, SPF 50 rated 71% cotton canopy stretched over a steel frame, and with a maple shaft and handle. Fit-umbrellas are made in two parts, with the shaft attached 'fit-up' to the handle, this allows for a slightly lighter weight than is typ..
£105.00
Ex Tax:£87.50
Brand: Small items
A khaki coloured, eight ribbed compact automatic umbrella-parasol made with an SPF 50 rated 71% cotton canopy stretched over a steel frame. Folding down to about 36cm, these are small enough to fit in most shopping bags and good sizes shoulder bags and quickly opened with a press of a button on the ..
£99.00
Ex Tax:£82.50
Brand: Small items
A sunshine yellow, eight ribbed compact automatic umbrella-parasol made with an SPF 50 rated 71% cotton canopy stretched over a steel frame. Folding down to about 36cm, these are small enough to fit in most shopping bags and good sizes shoulder bags and quickly opened with a press of a button on the..
£99.00
Ex Tax:£82.50
Brand: Small items
A bright crimson coloured, eight ribbed compact automatic umbrella-parasol made with an SPF 50 rated 71% cotton canopy stretched over a steel frame. Folding down to about 36cm, these are small enough to fit in most shopping bags and good sizes shoulder bags and quickly opened with a press of a butto..
£99.00
Ex Tax:£82.50
Brand: Small items
An eight ribbed fit-up parasol-umbrella made with an SPF 50 rated linen canopy stretched over a steel frame, and with a maple shaft and handle. Fit-umbrellas are made in two parts, with the shaft attached - fit-up - to the handle, this allows for a slightly lighter weight than is typical of the soli..
£100.00
Ex Tax:£83.33
Brand: Small items
Official referee whistle. Following on from its cousin the Metropolitan, and a year younger being born in 1884, the Thunderer came about as Joseph Hudson sought to replace the sticks and handkerchiefs football referees had used to that point for officiating matches. Whilst the police whistle require..
£12.00
Ex Tax:£10.00
Brand: Small items
The original Acme ‘silent’ dog whistle engineered to produce a fully adjustable range of frequencies between 5400 Hz and 14800 Hz, the lower audible, the higher register near silent to human ears. An improved version of the original (and first silent) design dating back to 110.5035. Each whistle is ..
£36.50
Ex Tax:£30.42
Brand: Small items
The authentic British police whistle, introduced in 1883 as a replacement to the unsurprisingly ineffective police rattles. The discordant 2 tone sound of the whistle can be heard up to 2 miles distant, and the mouth piece is shaped such that the whistle can be held between the teeth, leaving the ha..
£15.50
Ex Tax:£12.92
Brand: Small items
The original Admiralty Boatswain’s pipe or call (it should never called a whistle) made to an Acme design of 1870, and still used by navies worldwide for ceremonial purposes and for competition piping. Originally designed to convey instructions from the boatswain to sailors high above working the ri..
£34.50
Ex Tax:£28.75
Brand: Small items
A nickel silver traditional English shepherd’s lip whistle, used for the training and control of sheepdogs. This can take a little practice to make a sound, but once mastered is one of the most versatile and musical whistles available as tongue position and mouth shape determine pitch and tone...
£6.50
Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Small items
Hand-made in France from beech and metal, this blackbird call can, with practice and attentive listening, be used to imitate the trills and modulations of their song. Play by sucking and blowing air through the call. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an idylli..
£27.50
Ex Tax:£22.92
Brand: Small items
Hand-made in France from boxwood, this cuckoo call is fairly easy to play, the skill being primarily one of rhythm and timing. Play by sucking and blowing air through the call. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood amongst the hills of the Rhô..
£26.00
Ex Tax:£21.67
Brand: Small items
This handmade boxwood duck call is exceptionally easy to play, making it ideal for younger enthusiasts, however whilst sound like a duck might be easy, talking duck is less so. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood amongst the hills of the Rhô..
£21.00
Ex Tax:£17.50
Brand: Joseph Bull
Hand-made in France from beech wood and metal, with skill and practice the chaffinch call can be used to accurately replicate the high pitched twittering of one of our more common, and attractive, garden birds. Made by M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood amongst the hills of the Rhône-..
£27.50
Ex Tax:£22.92
Brand: Small items
Hand-made of boxwood and brass the goldfinch call can be used to accurately replicate the high pitched twittering of one of our more common, and attractive, garden birds. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood amongst the hills of the Rhône-Alp..
£25.00
Ex Tax:£20.83
Hand-made in France using beech wood, the swallow call can, with practice and attentive listening, be used to imitate the trills and modulations of their song. Best with quick light breaths, using the tongue as a stop, and to produce trills. Made by M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood ..
£23.00
Ex Tax:£19.17
Brand: Small items
A simple hand call of metal and wood, which is turned producing friction noise, which with perfection of pressure, speed, and rhythm, imitates well the nightingale's song. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an idyllic childhood amongst the hills of the Rhône-Al..
£25.00
Ex Tax:£20.83
Brand: Small items
A small hand warbler similar to the nightingale call, producing sound from the friction of metal against wood, and which with variation
in pressure and rhythm can well imitate the characteristic song of the European Robin. Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle, M. François Morel, who spent an..
£25.00
Ex Tax:£20.83
Brand: Small items
Made from polished boxwood, the Tawny Owl is one of the easier calls to play, tapping a finger upon the top hole whilst quivering ones tongue to emulate the ululating hoots of perhaps the most familiar of all the owls. The Tawny Owl is the only Owl present on every continent on the planet. Made by M..
£26.00
Ex Tax:£21.67
Brand: Small items
Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doctor Doolittle Monsieur François Morel has since a childhood amongst the verdant hills of the Rhône-Alpes region been making instruments so that he and others might communicate with the birds he saw there, creating 'toys' that he hopes might inspire in their users..
£34.50
Ex Tax:£28.75
Brand: Small items
Hand-made in France from rubber and brass, the starling is a fairly easy call to master, the rubber pipes held between forefinger and thumb and the hand turned rapidly back and forth - it mimics the call not of a single bird, but of a small gathering. Made by M. François Morel, who spent an id..
£65.00
Ex Tax:£54.17
Brand: Hohner
The Hohner Little Lady mini harmonica is only 35mm in length, yet possesses eight reeds and therefore a full octave range. Still assembled, tested and tuned by hand. Identical to the first musical instrument to be played in space, by Walter Schirra on board Gemini in 1965. Key of C. Supplied with a ..
£22.00
Ex Tax:£18.33
Brand: Small items
A wooden musical cube painted green; simple, beautiful, and joyfully tactile, with a single bell inside which will tinkle delightfully when shaken. Made for Sina Spielzeug in Germany in the town of Neuhausen, Saxony near the Czech border and the Ore mountains, an area with a long tradition of wood a..
£12.50
Ex Tax:£10.42
Brand: Small items
A set of six beautifully made wooden toy balls, simple yet colourful, and pleasing to play with and to hold. Coloured Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Indigo and Violet with non-toxic paints. Designed with Fröbel in mind and made for Sina Spielzeug in Germany in the town of Neuhausen, Saxony near the Cze..
£19.50
Ex Tax:£16.25
Brand: Small items
An absorbing and endlessly creative toy consisting of 250 brightly coloured lacquered wooden balls, and a double sided board, machined on one side with in a square pattern, and on the other off-set in a manner akin to honeycomb, allowing for the construction of both two and three dimensional pattern..
£42.50
Ex Tax:£35.42
Brand: Small items
A beautifully crafted pattern making kit comprised of three different European woods, namely maple, pear and walnut, the colours of which allow for an orthographically three-dimensional effect when laid correctly — more challenging, perhaps, than it first appears. A myriad of arrangements are possib..
£59.00
Ex Tax:£49.17
Brand: Small items
A simple yet creative pattern making toy consisting of 60 diamond shaped child safe lacquered wooden tiles, 10 in each of the primary and secondary colours which can be endlessly re-combined into larger geometric and op-art patterns. Machined, lacquered, and finished in the town of Neuhausen, Saxony..
£27.50
Ex Tax:£22.92
Brand: Small items
A miniature or doll's sweeping and cleaning set contained in a neat wooden case. Includes a natural bristle floor broom, red lacquered bucket, metal dustpan, and wood and bristle hand-brush. The case measures approximately 19cm by 8cm by 7cm. From the Redecker company of Versmold, Germany...
£22.50
Ex Tax:£18.75
Brand: Small items
An assortment of 76 building blocks of beechwood, made by Sina Spielzeug of Germany; mind fodder for budding imaginations. Designed with Fröbel's educational gifts in mind, the set consists of a number of spheres, cubes and cylinders, as well as their partial shapes, to which have been added disks, ..
£42.50
Ex Tax:£35.42
Brand: Small items
Gathered and blended by a small family producer in the arctic forests of Swedish Lapland from sustainably harvested wild spruce resin, animal fats, and beeswax. Kåd-salva is a traditional Scandinavian remedy for dry, chapped, cracked, or itchy skin, small wounds, grazes, and blisters, it's even thou..
£26.50
Ex Tax:£22.08
Brand: Small items
Pine tar oil harvested and kilned in the boreal forests of Swedish Lapland. Traditionally carried throughout northern Scandinavia, especially by those living and working outdoors and prized as a remedy for the infernal biting of the mygg (mosquito) and knott (midge) from which personal experience su..
£13.50
Ex Tax:£11.25
Brand: Small items
A fragrant balm made only of beeswax and pine tar oil harvested and kilned in the boreal forests of Swedish Lapland. Traditionally carried throughout northern Scandinavia, most especially by those living and working outdoors - woodsmen and reindeer herders - and prized as a remedy for the infernal b..
£17.50
Ex Tax:£14.58
Brand: Small items
Produced and blended by a small family producer in the arctic forests of Swedish Lapland from 95% lanolin and their own pine tar - produced by the slow heating of locally and sustainably harvested pine cuttings over charcoal fires, the pine tar being the dark smoky liquid that drips from the roastin..
£10.00
Ex Tax:£8.33
A complex muscle rub blended by a small family producer in the forests of Swedish lapland from locally harvested beeswax, rapeseed oil, peppermint oil, cajeput oil, and camphor oil. This is a new vegetarian formulation of a traditional liniment that had long been made using rendered bear fat, a rare..
£26.50
Ex Tax:£22.08
Brand: Small items
A compact little crumb or table brush, crafted from coconut fibre, bound with linen twine. Perfect for clearing up after eating, or keeping a desk or windowsills tidy. Handmade in Finland by the craftspeople of a visually impaired workers cooperative, whose long tradition of hand brush manufacture t..
£18.00
Ex Tax:£15.00
Brand: Iris Hantwerk AB
A small oiled beech and horsehair dustpan and brush set designed for sweeping crumbs from the table. The brush fits neatly inside the pan, in a manner somewhat akin to a jigsaw, and has in its handle a hole from which both will hang. Beautifully made in the workshops of Iris Hantverk, Sweden, where ..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Redecker
An ostrich feather duster with dark feathers, a varnished softwood handle, a black leather cuff and hanging band, and a total length of about 50cm. Made in South Africa for a small and long established family owned and run brushworks in North Rhein-Westfalia. Genuine ostrich dusters are considered b..
£24.00
Ex Tax:£20.00
Brand: Redecker
An ostrich feather duster with dark feathers, a dark varnished softwood handle, a black leather cuff and hanging band, a larger head, and total length of about 90cm. Made in South Africa for a small and long established family owned and run brushworks in North Rhein-Westfalia. Genuine ostr..
£29.00
Ex Tax:£24.17
Brand: Redecker
An ostrich feather duster with a generously sized head of dark feathers, a turned waxed beech handle, an oiled leather cuff and hanging band, and a length in the region of 120cm. Made in South Africa for a small and long established family owned and run brushworks in North Rhein-Westfalia. Genu..
£48.50
Ex Tax:£40.42
Brand: Redecker
An ostrich feather duster with a clear varnished whitewood handle, a dark leather cuff, hanging band, and a large exceptionally soft white feather head. It is ideal for the most delicate items. Total length about 65cm. Made in South Africa for a small and long established family owned and ..
£45.00
Ex Tax:£37.50
Brand: Redecker
A narrow long reach brush for cleaning around and behind all kinds of cabinets and deep shelves. The rounded end helps prevent accidental knocks and damage. Waxed beechwood, horsehair. Made in Germany using traditional methods, by a long-established family-run company. Approximately 148cm by 19cm by..
£40.00
Ex Tax:£33.33
A double pronged brush of mixed dark goat hair wound into approximately 34cm stainless steel wire stocks attached to an oiled beech handle. The long bent tipped prongs allow cleaning and dusting behind and between radiator deep fins and other narrow hard to reach places. From a small family bu..
£27.50
Ex Tax:£22.92
Brand: Small items
For the cleaning of Venetian blinds. Goat hair, steel wire, and beech. The four brushes are designed to slide between and along the blind slats, quickly and effectively dusting these hard to reach niches. Made in Germany in the workshops of a small but long established family of brush-makers. The fo..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Redecker
A stitched dust-brush of polished waxed beech, white goat-hair and steel wire; finished with a brass pin secured back plate, and a white felt bumper which should help prevent accidental damage to more fragile items. For the quick dusting of delicate surfaces, furniture, and small moveables. From a s..
£30.00
Ex Tax:£25.00
Brand: Small items
A simple hand stitched dust-brush of beech, steel wire, and soft goat hair of creamy white or dun grey. For the quick dusting of delicate surfaces, furniture, and small moveables. From the company of Iris Hantverk whose workshops in Sweden and Estonia were founded to provide traditional handcraft em..
£21.50
Ex Tax:£17.92
Brand: Redecker
A small brush for sensitive surfaces, niches, fine delicate items, and the careful focussed cleaning of more valuable artifacts. Very fine soft goat hair mounted to a turned, oiled beech stock. From the workshops of a family run brush-makers in Germany, who since the 1930's have specialised in the t..
£24.00
Ex Tax:£20.00