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Accession # |
1993.13.1.01 |
Item Name |
Basket, Picnic Bottle, Vacuum Cup Dish, Butter Plate Plate, Bread and Butter Plate, Dinner Set, Luncheon Set, Picnic Thermos |
Description |
A wicker picnic basket (.01) dated to the early 1930s. Stored in separate locations are pieces of the basket set which consist of the following: green sandwich tins (1993.13.1.03), a metal "Thermos" vacuum bottle (1993.13.1.06), and a white ceramic butter crock (1993.13.1.08), a metal tin (1993.13.1.09), and plastic picnic ware (1993.13.1.022). The basket (.01) has a hinged lid and leather strap closures. The basket lid has leather loops to hold utensils but there were no utensils donated with the set. One green plastic plate was also not donated with the set. |
Date |
1930 CIRCA |
Provenance |
The picnic set was bought in the early 1930s by the donor's parents, Justice George T. Walsh and Anna Walsh (d.1938), of Toronto. The donor (b.1928) remembers it being used to go on fishing trips with his father and brother to Musselman's Lake, north of Toronto. The tin which commemorates the 1937 coronation of George VI and Elizabeth was used to hold cookies. It was not an original piece to the set. The donor and his wife then used it on picnics with their family in the Toronto area in the 1950s. Their children would play with the pieces and eventually the utensils became lost to the set. The donor and his wife have lived in Wellington County near Alma since 1979. |
Person \ Organization |
Red Cross Society Walsh, Ron Walsh, Joan (Mrs.) Walsh, George Walsh, Anna |
Place |
Toronto Alma Elora |
Year Range from |
1930 |
Year Range to |
1935 |