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Brand: Hohenfreid
The Laufring Innen — an inner grooved run-ring, with little balls which run around this groove. 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 c..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
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..
£42.00
Ex Tax:£35.00
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 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..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
Klangturm translates as Tower of Sound, hence the name of this 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 and p..
£95.00
Ex Tax:£79.17
Brand: Small items
A set of 5 beech wood toy vehicles, made by Sina Spielzeug, to stretch those budding imaginations. The set consists of a Limousine, a Pick-up, a Motorcycle, a Combi and a Bus. The vehicles are compatible with all common wooden rail systems. Turned, machined, lacquered, and finished in the town of Ne..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
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..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
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..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
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..
£29.50
Ex Tax:£24.58
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-..
£29.50
Ex Tax:£24.58
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..
£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..
£37.00
Ex Tax:£30.83
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..
£26.00
Ex Tax:£21.67
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 ..
£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..
£27.00
Ex Tax:£22.50
Brand: Small items
Der Kleine Schwede, or 'little Sweden', whose vernacular houses these are made to resemble — a tiny dyed and stamped beech building set contained within a classic matchbox. First produced in 1908 in Samuel Friedrich Fischer’s wooden toy factory at Oberseiffenbach in the German Ore mountains, by the ..
£12.00
Ex Tax:£10.00
An adorable, shaped wheat bag, with a lion (named Lejon) design embroidered onto one side, and a navy pattern on the back. Lavender is included in the wheat mixture, providing a comforting aroma when warmed. Lejon is the perfect friend for little ones (or adults!) to snuggle up with and get a g..
£33.00
Ex Tax:£27.50
Brand: Small items
A soft, chunky-knit, 100% cotton baby blanket in a natural, un-dyed ivory colour. Perfect for cozying up and swaddling a newborn. Designed by Yumiko Sekine, founder of Fog Linen Works. Sekine started her first business in 1993 importing goods from around the world to Japan — finding a shortage of af..
£54.50
Ex Tax:£45.42
A super-soft and cosy scarf, made from 100% Merino Lambswool, with a beautiful herringbone weave in a delicate Dove Grey hue. McNutt of Donegal have been weaving in Donegal since 1953, when master weaver Bill McNutt established his eponymous weavery in a community hall. Now woven on powerlooms in a ..
£32.50
Ex Tax:£27.08
Brand: Small items
A small (about 45mm diameter) turned beech screw-top box for the safe keeping of milk teeth (Milch Zähne), be that by parents for prosteritory or fairies prior to their carving and manufacture of minuscule piano keys. From the workshops of the Redecker company, who since their founding by Friedrich ..
£6.50
Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Redecker
A little paintbrush, designed especially to be safer and easier for young hands to hold whilst developing motor skills, with a wooden grip of oiled beech-wood and light natural (pig) bristles. From the the Versmold workshops of the Redecker company, who since their founding by Friedrich R..
£6.00
Ex Tax:£5.00
Brand: Sakura
A set of six sidewalk chalks in white, yellow, orange, red, blue and green. Perfect for children and adults alike to draw on pavements, garden tiles, and other concrete surfaces. Drawings are easily washed away with water and rain, leaving a blank canvas for your next use. Made by Koh-I-Noor, founde..
£4.00
Ex Tax:£3.33
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..
£62.00
Ex Tax:£51.67
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, ..
£44.00
Ex Tax:£36.67
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..
£44.50
Ex Tax:£37.08
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: Redecker
An untreated beechwood rolling pin for children, or for smaller rolling jobs, with a central metal axle, around which the wooden roller turns. Made in Germany, by Burstenhaus Redecker, who have been producing household items in natural materials in their workshops since 1935. 24cm long including han..
£6.00
Ex Tax:£5.00
Brand: Small items
Children's red painted steel dustpan with a brush made from untreated beechwood and horsehair. The brush measures 22cm in length, the dustpan 19.5cm by 13.5cm. German made...
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
Brand: Oversize items
Red painted beechwood handle, rice straw. Something of a misnomer rice straw is not derived from rice at all but from sorghum a type of cereal growing from the sub-tropics to the Balkans. Redecker have been hand making brushes using traditional methods since 1935. Still a small family concern their ..
£10.00 – £12.00
Ex Tax:£0.00
Brand: Oversize items
Red painted beechwood and horsehair, waxed beech handle. Redecker have been hand making brushes using traditional methods since 1935. Still a small family concern their range and quality is second to none. In 2 sizes, the smaller nominally for 1-3 year olds, measures just under 80cm, the larger for ..
£18.50 – £20.50
Ex Tax:£0.00
Brand: Sneeboer
A smaller fork with an ash handle and forged stainless steel body — made by Sneeboer in the Netherlands to the same high quality of manufacture as their full sized tools. The firm of Sneeboer began manufacturing garden tools in 1913. Designed to withstand the rigours of daily use by the profess..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Sneeboer
A smaller trowel with an ash handle and forged stainless steel body — made by Sneeboer in the Netherlands to the same high quality of manufacture as their full sized tools. The firm of Sneeboer began manufacturing garden tools in 1913. Designed to withstand the rigours of daily use by the profession..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
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 ..
£39.00
Ex Tax:£32.50
Brand: Small items
A professional orchestral, or perhaps theatrical nickel plated siren whistle with a complex rotating mechanism which accurately recreates the vibrating whine of an old fashioned air siren. Once beloved by cyclists for its remarkable ability to clear a path through the busiest of streets, it has been..
£40.00
Ex Tax:£33.33
Brand: Small items
A small, portable natural sharpening stone of about 320 to 400 grit. Quarried in the vicinity of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy, this is a good stone for regular sharpening of all pocket knives, especially when travelling or camping when bench stones might be too impractically heavy to carry. Used with wa..
£9.50
Ex Tax:£7.92
Brand: Small items
An oval profile, beech-handled screwdriver with precision-ground, tempered steel blade for a secure grip and lasting edge. Made by Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have specialised in the production of fine joiners hand tools since 1840. Some of their methods may have changed, many have not..
£32.00
Ex Tax:£26.67
Brand: Small items
An oval profile, beech-handled screwdriver with precision-ground, tempered steel blade for a secure grip and lasting edge. Made by Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have specialised in the production of fine joiners hand tools since 1840. Some of their methods may have changed, many have not..
£18.00
Ex Tax:£15.00
Brand: Small items
A left-handed version of Joseph Marples' classic English joiner's marking knife, with a single bevel to be used flat side against the guide for a more accurate line than is possible with a pencil. Carbon steel with walnut handles. From Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have over 150 years experie..
£6.50
Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Small items
A left-handed varient of a classic English joiner's marking knife, with a single bevel to be used flat side against the guide for a more accurate line than is possible with a pencil. Carbon steel with Rosewood handles. From Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have over 150 years experience producin..
£7.50
Ex Tax:£6.25
Brand: Small items
A classic English joiner's marking knife, with a single bevel to be used flat side against the guide for a more accurate line than is possible with a pencil. Carbon steel with Rosewood handles. From Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have over 150 years experience producing joiners and cabinet mak..
£7.50
Ex Tax:£6.25
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A partially serrated carbon steel sickle knife, with a tape splitting hook to the back, and a poplar handle. Incredibly sharp both to the flat and the serrated sections of the blade these are by intent used to open and break down cardboard boxes, the small hook ideal for ripping through tape without..
£10.00
Ex Tax:£8.33
Brand: Small items
A 6 inch spirit level made of rosewood, with upper brass plates, and lower brass tipped ends. From Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have over 150 years experience of producing the finest joiners, and cabinet makers tools. Whilst time might have changed (only) some of their methods their commitme..
£31.00
Ex Tax:£25.83
Brand: Small items
A 9 inch spirit level made of rosewood, with upper brass plates, and lower brass tipped ends. From Joseph Marples Ltd of Sheffield, who have over 150 years experience of producing the finest joiners, and cabinet makers tools. Whilst time might have changed (only) some of their methods their commitme..
£37.50
Ex Tax:£31.25
Brand: Small items
A small folding saw, made in Sanjo, Japan, for fine pruning jobs in the garden, with specially shaped beechwood handle and a simple locking device to keep the blade in place. Ibara-me teeth are angled to cut both along and across the grain, giving a very fast, efficient action. Made with SK5 steel, ..
£36.00
Ex Tax:£30.00
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A general purpose carpenters mallet from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. With a beech head impregnated with wax for added weight as well as protection and a strong Japanese White Oak handle in Japan these are used with chisels as well as for tapping together join..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A narrow, rectangular-headed, lighter weight Japanese Oak carpenters mallet from Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. This type of narrow, almost square edged mallets of are typically used for close and more delicate joinery work such as carefully tapping home pegs du..
£25.00
Ex Tax:£20.83
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A sharp edged hand-forged adze from Pallares Solsona in Spain, who have been making kitchen knives and Agricultural tools in Catalonia since its founding in 1917 by brothers Lluís and Carles Pallarès Canal. An ancient and versatile cutting tool, adzes have been used since the Stone Age for smoothing..
£118.00
Ex Tax:£98.33
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A lightweight hatchet from Tsubame-Sanjo city, of a type thought to have been produced in Japan for over 1700 years. These have a lacquered Kanto oak handle reinforced with a steel strip where leverage might be greatest should the blade become wedged. Double beveled, with an angled gently curving bl..
£95.00
Ex Tax:£79.17
Brand: Small items
A double sided, specially developed ceramic sharpening puck, designed especially for axes and hatchets. The rough 80 grit side is perfect for ironing out chips, burrs, and imperfections from heavy use, while the ceramic 220 grit side is ideal for refining, sharpening, and maintaining. No oil should ..
£55.00
Ex Tax:£45.83
A handy axe and tool maintenance set from Adler, Germany, comprising of a double sided ceramic sharpening puck, and a rejuvenating wax for wooden handled tools. The rough 80 grit side of the puck is perfect for ironing out chips, burrs, and imperfections from heavy use, while the ceramic 220 g..
£99.00
Ex Tax:£82.50