Brand: Small items
A seal shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled hole that marks the top of their heads, then because they are held in shape by the form of the glued segments and the innate stiffness of the paper rat..
£3.60
Ex Tax:£3.00
Brand: Small items
A beach ball shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled hole that marks the top of their heads, then because they are held in shape by the form of the glued segments and the innate stiffness of the pap..
£3.60
Ex Tax:£3.00
Brand: Small items
A koala shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled hole that marks the top of their heads, then because they are held in shape by the form of the glued segments and the innate stiffness of the paper ra..
£3.60
Ex Tax:£3.00
Brand: Small items
A monkey shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled hole that marks the top of their heads, then because they are held in shape by the form of the glued segments and the innate stiffness of the paper r..
£3.60
Ex Tax:£3.00
Brand: Small items
An orca shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled hole that marks the top of their heads, then because they are held in shape by the form of the glued segments and the innate stiffness of the paper ra..
£3.60
Ex Tax:£3.00
Brand: Small items
A panda shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled hole that marks the top of their heads, then because they are held in shape by the form of the glued segments and the innate stiffness of the paper ra..
£3.60
Ex Tax:£3.00
Brand: Small items
A pig shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled hole that marks the top of their heads, then because they are held in shape by the form of the glued segments and the innate stiffness of the paper rath..
£3.60
Ex Tax:£3.00
A pink fish shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled hole that marks the top of their heads, then because they are held in shape by the form of the glued segments and the innate stiffness of the pape..
£3.60
Ex Tax:£3.00
Brand: Small items
A raccoon shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled hole that marks the top of their heads, then because they are held in shape by the form of the glued segments and the innate stiffness of the paper ..
£3.60
Ex Tax:£3.00
Brand: Small items
A plain paper A5 sized notebook from the LIFE company of Japan. Made with 100 sheets of finely laid, watermarked, and acid free archival quality Japanese paper section-sewn in four sections and glued inside a black cloth spine. The naturally cream coloured paper is ink friendly, bleed resistant, and..
£17.00
Ex Tax:£14.17
Brand: Small items
A choice of natural latex rubber erasers from České Budějovice, in the Czech Republic. The uniquely patterned ’Magic’ erasers are slightly the hardest, made of soft vulcanised natural rubber with a slight pumice content for mildly abrasive effect; the white erasers are a little smoother, with a lowe..
£1.00
Ex Tax:£0.83
Brand: Hohenfreid
The Kugelball — a hollow six holed sphere, with a small wooden ball inside. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) toys are handmade to the renowned carpenter, pedagogue, and educational theorist Hugo Kükelhaus’s original 1930s ‘allbedeut’ designs at the Hoherfried community workshops in the ..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Hohenfreid
The Kugelrassel — a grooved, handled sphere, with little balls inside, which make a sweet, gentle sound when shaken. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) toys are handmade to the renowned carpenter, pedagogue, and educational theorist Hugo Kükelhaus’s original 1930s ‘allbedeut’ designs at t..
£38.00
Ex Tax:£31.67
Brand: Hohenfreid
The Kugelscheibe — a UFO-shaped disk with a rolling ball in the centre. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) toys are handmade to the renowned carpenter, pedagogue, and educational theorist Hugo Kükelhaus’s original 1930s ‘allbedeut’ designs at the Hoherfried community workshops in the Germ..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Hohenfreid
The Laufring Aussen rattle — an outer grooved run-ring, with balls which race around the circumference. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) toys are handmade to the renowned carpenter, pedagogue, and educational theorist Hugo Kükelhaus’s original 1930s ‘allbedeut’ designs at the Hoherfried..
£39.50
Ex Tax:£32.92
Brand: Hohenfreid
The classic Hohenfried Urfisch — a fish-shaped rattle with slender tail for grasping, and a small ball inside which gives a gentle rattling sound when shaken. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) toys are handmade to the renowned carpenter, pedagogue, and educational theorist Hugo Kük..
£42.50
Ex Tax:£35.42
Brand: Small items
A simple wooden push car, handmade from local timber and non toxic child-safe dyes at the Hohenfried Werkstätten in the German Alps. Hohenfried Heimat is an open community of nearly two hundred learning disabled adults and children, providing sheltered accommodation, schools, and employment in organ..
£20.50
Ex Tax:£17.08
Brand: Small items
A many coloured musical tower from Hohenfried Werkstätten. Easily mistaken for a naive rainbow sculpture or else some kind of creative storage solution, this is rather a kind of musical toy. Marbles are dropped onto the highest level to roll down the variously sized fins causing appropriately descen..
£95.00
Ex Tax:£79.17
Brand: Small items
A balloon powered rocket car, handmade from local timber and birch ply off cuts at the Hohenfried Werkstätten in the German Alps. Hohenfried Heimat is an open community of learning disabled adults and children, providing sheltered accommodation, schools, and employment in organic agriculture, c..
£16.00
Ex Tax:£13.33
Brand: Small items
A rubber band powered paddle boat, handmade from local timber at the Hohenfried Werkstätten in the German Alps. Hohenfried Heimat is an open community of learning disabled adults and children, providing sheltered accommodation, schools, and employment in organic agriculture, craft workshops, gourmet..
£14.50
Ex Tax:£12.08
Brand: Small items
A toy of simple Bauhaus inspired geometric shapes and primary colours created in 2011 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of SINA Speilzeug and the result of a collaboration between cabinet maker and designer Fred Voß (of Pyrom fame), bauhaus-archiv gmbh, and SINA themselves. Turned, m..
£15.50
Ex Tax:£12.92
Brand: Balma Capoduri & C. s.p.a.
Unchanged in recipe, design, or packaging since its launch in 1927, Coccoina contains in its aluminium tin a separate compartment holding a small brush applicator. It is made from a mixture of dextrine (potato starch) and almond oil, and especially suited for use by children — it has been used..
£5.00
Ex Tax:£4.17
Brand: Sakura
A box of 12 children's oil pastels from Sakura of Japan. Made from a mixture of pigment, oil, and wax. First created in 1925, these were initially available in summer and winter versions as the softness of the pastels was then very sensitive to temperature variation; until in 1928 a formula was perf..
£8.50
Ex Tax:£7.08
Brand: Redecker
With a wooden grip of oiled beech-wood and light natural (pig) bristles. Designed to be safer and easier for little hands to hold. From the the Versmold workshops of the Redecker company, who since their founding by Friedrich Redecker in the 1930 have specialised in the production of unusual and hig..
£6.00
Ex Tax:£5.00
Brand: Redecker
A miniature massage roller for the pampering of little ones, made of oiled beechwood by Burstenhaus Redecker in Germany. Young children and babies are fond of gentle massages as it promotes healthy sleep and bonding with their caregiver. The design of the roller is akin to that of a toy car, making ..
£4.75
Ex Tax:£3.96
Brand: Redecker
A very soft natural hairbrush of oiled pear-wood, with short fine bristles of white goat hair. For smoothing downy hair and gently massaging the scalp. From the workshops of the Redecker company, who since their founding by Friedrich Redecker in the 1930s have specialised in the production of unusua..
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
Brand: Redecker
A softer brush made with light natural goat hair bristle mounted to a waxed beech stock. Gentler than the adult brushes, so as not to tug and break young fine hair, hopefully meaning less tears too. From the workshops of the Redecker company, who since their founding in the 1930s have specialised in..
£12.00
Ex Tax:£10.00
Brand: Small items
A hand crafted dog toy, or koiran lelu, made of recycled eco-cotton in blue and white. Each chew toy is braided by hand for SokkoTaito Oy, a Finnish company created by Kaisa Penttilä who, as part of her entrepeneurship, speaks publicly about living with a visual impairment - supported by her sympath..
£19.00
Ex Tax:£15.83
Brand: Redecker
Natural hand and sustainably harvested sponges from the eastern Mediterranean sea. Natural sponge is generally softer than its synthetic equivalents, and being formed not of bubbles, but a matrix of interwoven and interconnected tubules, both holds more liquid without dripping, and rinses more quick..
£21.50
Ex Tax:£17.92
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