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Brand: Small items
This Indian ‘whistling sparrow’ tin toy is a remake of the original 1930s Whistling Sparrow. A squeeze of the sprung lever (or ‘tail’) using thumb and forefinger sends air into its bellows. The sparrow then flaps its wings and tweets its whistling chirp. As the wing edges can be sharp, this toy isn’..
£8.50
Ex Tax:£7.08
Brand: Small items
This Indian ‘whistling sparrow’ tin toy is a remake of the original 1930s Whistling Sparrow. A squeeze of the sprung lever (or ‘tail’) using thumb and forefinger sends air into its bellows. The sparrow then flaps its wings and tweets its whistling chirp. As the wing edges can be sharp, this toy isn’..
£8.50
Ex Tax:£7.08
Brand: Small items
This Indian ‘whistling sparrow’ tin toy is a remake of the original 1930s Whistling Sparrow. A squeeze of the sprung lever (or ‘tail’) using thumb and forefinger sends air into its bellows. The sparrow then flaps its wings and tweets its whistling chirp. As the wing edges can be sharp, this toy isn’..
£8.50
Ex Tax:£7.08
Brand: Small items
A set of twelve beautifully crafted musical balls — two each of red, green, yellow, orange, blue, and purple — in a cotton bag. Simple and beautiful rattles, each colour produces a specific and distinct sound when shaken, matching colours to sounds in a synesthetic game of pairing. A timeless heirlo..
£99.00
Ex Tax:£82.50
Brand: Hohenfreid
The Dreilochring — a hollow doughnut-shaped rattle or baby toy, with a hollow interior contains a small wooden ball. 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..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
Brand: Hohenfreid
The Griefling rattle — a rattle or baby toy in the shape of a ring with a central bar holding three loose disks, with a hollow interior contains a small wooden ball. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) toys are handmade to the renowned carpenter, pedagogue, and educational theorist Hugo Kü..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
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..
£36.50
Ex Tax:£30.42
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 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 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..
£27.00
Ex Tax:£22.50
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 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..
£26.00
Ex Tax:£21.67
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: 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
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..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
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
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..
£12.50
Ex Tax:£10.42
Brand: Small items
A beautiful Kalimba with 11 tines made by Hokema in the small town of Walsrode in Lower Saxony. The tines are arraanged in two rows, the lower of which are tuned to a G major scale, these notes make it perfect for intuitive playing as well as for a number of well-known tunes. Relaxing and meditative..
£90.00
Ex Tax:£75.00
Brand: Small items
A beautifully intuitive Kalimba with 5 tines tuned to an F minor arpeggio — no wrong notes! Made by Hokema in the small town of Walsrode in Lower Saxony. Relaxing and meditative, and simple enough for anyone to pick up and play beautiful music with. While the Kalimba has a short history dating back ..
£49.00
Ex Tax:£40.83
Brand: Small items
A beautiful Kalimba with 9 tines made by Hokema in the small town of Walsrode in Lower Saxony. The tines are arranged in two rows, the lower of which is tuned to an A minor arpeggio with an added 9th, the higher to an F major arpeggio. These notes all sound beautiful together, and its impossible to ..
£69.00
Ex Tax:£57.50
A traditional leather strop paddle , made by Lamson USA, America’s oldest surviving cutlery company, operating out of Massachusetts since 1837. Stropping is the final step to achieving a mirror edge when sharpening knives. An un-stropped knife, when tested on paper, will most often catch and stutter..
£30.00
Ex Tax:£25.00