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How dangerous are Magnets in Toys? 2008-05-07 06:11:42 Since the autumn of 2007 there have been very quick moves by the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic towards greater control of magnets in toys. This has been matched, it seems to me, by a very evident alarm amongst toy-buyers as to the safety of magnets in any form. A programme screened in [...] Read more:dangerous
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Happy Birthday Mulberry Bush 2008-05-01 07:37:09 We didn’t realise it but it turns out we’re celebrating our 400th anniversary this year, in a here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-bush sort of way. Today’s Times carries a fascinating letter – if slightly arcane – from the Master of the Garden of the Inner Temple, London (no less) explaining the provenance of the two mulberry trees that grow [...] Read more:Happy
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Traditional game to get new look 2008-04-28 08:27:00 Apparently the makers of Monopoly in USA are “dropping Water Works and Electric Company in favour of Wind Energy and Solar Energy” according to globeandmail.com . They quote the games owner’s CEO as saying this is “a nod to the efforts of countries worldwide to increase the effectiveness and availability of renewable energy and resources.”
A [...] Read more:Traditional
Could wooden toy making return to Britain? 2008-04-22 05:46:31 It’s no secret that a huge proportion of the world’s toy manufacturing has found its way to the Far East, particularly to China, in recent years. Very few of the wooden toys we sell now come from anywhere other than that part of the world. Don’t get me wrong - some of these people [...] Read more:making
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Junior Joiner - Carpentry for Kids 2008-03-26 08:12:58 I never cease to be amazed at the number of Junior
Carpenter sets we sell – certainly one of our most popular toys. Although it shouldn’t really be described as a toy because these are real tools that really work, and certainly should be used under supervision, at least to start with.
Perhaps that’s [...]
Why do collectors dolls look like Winston Churchill ? 2008-03-25 10:59:19 Whenever we go the Nuremberg Toy Fair we’re always horrified by the realism of what can only be collectors
’ dolls - full size, very realistic baby dolls. But why do they - like so many real babies - always look like WinstonChurchill
? We’re sorry if that upsets the true collector - who [...] Read more:Winston Churchill
Toy safety - is it a minefield? 2008-03-25 06:32:12 Mulberry Bush take the issue of Toy safety very seriously. All the toys we sell come from reputable manufacturers and safety testing certificates are held by them, or by the company that imports them into Europe. The test certificate for any toy – be it a wooden toy, game, doll etc - [...]
Marbles over the Millennia 2008-06-23 05:05:24 There’s a nicely written piece about traditional games on Time Magazine’s website with the author describing how he and his primary schoolmates played marbles in the playground in the 1970s. No doubt he thinks that makes him sound old, but I could have written the same about my primary school in the 1950s and I [...] Read more:Marbles
Educational Toys for Babies 2008-07-23 09:01:29 Parents and carers today want toys for their children that are not only entertaining and fun but also educational. Babies
arrive in the world hungry for learning, and milk, so it falls to parents and carers to ensure that they are adequately stimulated, supported and challenged.
Babies are like sponges. They absorb every aspect of their [...] Read more:Educational
Top Ten Traditional Wooden Toys 2008-07-23 08:09:35 I’ve taken a close look at our recent sales statistics to compile this list of traditional wooden toys that continue to be immensely popular:
Jacobs Ladder:
This is a very popular traditional folk toy consisting of wooden blocks that are held together with ribbon. When the toy is held at one end the illusion of a block [...] Read more:Wooden
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What do Kate Middleton and I have in common? 2008-09-09 08:00:04 It’s been a while since I last posted anything and I can only apologise. I have a pretty good excuse though, having spent many long days and weeks, with my wife, putting together our new range of Mulberry Bush toys gifts and games for our autumn catalogue. At long last it’s printed and in the [...] Read more:Middleton
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No Longer Child’s Play? 2008-10-22 06:11:40 Toy collecting, especially antique tin and wooden toys, as an investment is a relatively recent phenomenon.
It started to get serious in the mid-60’s with prices and demand being driven largely by interest from the USA. By the mid-eighties the market really took off. Toy prices in the USA and around the world started going [...]
Choosing the Right Wooden Toy 2008-10-21 10:51:09 Quality wooden toys give lasting pleasure. They feel organic. They are robust and long lasting. Aside from their immediate play value they also represent an investment in childhood memories.
An heirloom that can be passed on from generation to generation. Many of our toys are similar to those that [...] Read more:Right
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Mulberry Bush VAT price reductions on most popular toys 2008-11-29 06:09:16 Just what we needed in the frantic few weeks before Christmas. A little bit of extra work, courtesy of the Chancellor. We can’t knock his motives however and are all in favour of anything that gets the flagging economy going again. This bulletin explains what we at Mulberry
Bush are doing in response.
We are a [...] Read more:price
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Dolls House Delight 2008-11-20 11:07:45 It’s a little known fact that dolls houses were in existence in Egypt over 5,000 years ago.
These early examples were true miniature homes, made out of wood, with miniature furnishings, servants and livestock. However these ancient Egyptian dolls houses were not toys as we know them today. Discovered in Egyptian tombs it is thought that [...] Read more:Dolls
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