Enid Blyton 1950s (?) Tablecloth

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Isn't Scotland now doing a version of the Finnish baby box? :D There, if you've got that, you'll have all the immediate essentials and can focus on the things of more deeper and lasting significance. Like Blyton keepsakes. :wink:
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We are, and I'm hoping to get one! I also hope I can get a list of what's in it so I don't end up buying things and getting duplicates later.
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Tony Summerfield wrote:I have been offered Dorothy Wheeler table cloths before, but they are normally quite a big bigger than this and usually the asking price is over £100. These things probably date from the late 1940s as after that Noddy rather took over on this sort of thing!
Thanks for that info, Tony - then it is older than the buyer thinks, maybe? :-) I am very tempted myself, except it would probably be only folded away and never looked at!
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The seller has relisted their table cloth - at a buy it now price of £50.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ENID-BLYTON-T ... SwILFZrlfY
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I can think of many more useful things I could buy with £50 :lol:

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I do like it (and as Tony pointed out earlier, it's more likely from the 1940s (as it doesn't feature Noddy) and items like this often sell for more than that), but I don't have any use for it and I could certainly buy more useful things with £50 as well! :P
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It's very sweet, but would probably end up folded away as it has been all these years, by the sound of it. Tempted, but not enough!
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I agree. If I bought it, I'd just put it away in a drawer! Nice item though! :-)
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Before Noddy took over there were many lovely merchandise items games and napery based around the Newnes characters of that time. Here are some pictures of other tray cloths & table cloths from that time. Sorry the photos are bad, not good at taking & loading photos. There are two large cloths about 35 inches square, 3 about 16 inches square and 1 about 16 x 11 inches. I also have many EB hankies with a variety of these characters on them.
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Attractive items, Sue! I can't see the bottom two pictures very well, though I like the look of the black cat. On the ones above I particularly love the Mr. Pink-Whistle and Brer Rabbit scenes.
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I must get some lessons so I can take photos & upload them that are worth seeing.
Its a shame these ones aren't clear as they have lovely little poems next to each picture
The black cat poem is as follows:
The witch's cat all softly goes
On her quiet velvet toes.
Black as soot with eyes of green
There she passes like a queen
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I'm not at all good at working with images myself, and since Photobucket stopped free hosting I haven't got round to trying any other picture-hosting sites.

Thanks for typing out the poem, Sue. It's great! It portrays the cat's stately demeanour perfectly.
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The handkerchiefs look like they were originally from Enid Blyton's Handkerchief Book - you can see it here on eBay - and some of the handkerchiefs too -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-ENID-BLYT ... SwOyJX2QdB
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Rob, they are not hankies, they look small in the photo but they are actually about the size of 4 hankies. I didn't photograph any of the hankies that I have. I also have the handkerchief book.
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My mistake! :oops: I can see now I've looked again that they aren't quite the same - but they are very similar! :-D
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'

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