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Coloured cat's eyes twinkle across the smooth surface

1920, Toy
Coloured cat's eyes twinkle across the smooth surface
Coloured cat's eyes twinkle across the smooth surface
Coloured cat's eyes twinkle across the smooth surface
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Item no
39822
Title
Coloured cat's eyes twinkle across the smooth surface - spinning tops and marbles
Description
The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.

'Coloured cat's eyes twinkle across the smooth surface'

'"I've lost my marbles," she announced.

"You don't say," her father murmured, slotting the circular plane of resinous pine onto dowelling.

"I'm not crying," she snuffled
"snow melts, I might find them."

Her Dad nodded, revealing the finished top.

Not the tin one she'd coveted in the holly-trimmed toy-shop, but it pirouetted sweetly, spinning, transformed, a spiral mandala of movement; marbles forgotten.'

By Amanda Edmiston

Image: Marbles 1930s &Spinning Tops 1920s
Date
1920
Type
Toy
Location
Museum of Childhood