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    Posted 12 years ago

    Elayne5
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    My grandfather made me this dollhouse for Christmas, 1966. The pics are from then but I still have the dollhouse and it is still in good shape. I believe it was from a kit, and apparently in 1977 I had purchased some replacement windows, "labels" for the shutters and for the "brickwork". These I just found in new condition in a box with the old dollhouse furniture. I would love to have more information on it, and on the kit he used. The dollhouse is now in my home and will be fixed up for some grandchildren play.

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    1. fhrjr2 fhrjr2, 12 years ago
      I believe you will find this is a Tynietoy Townhouse.
    2. KE1966, 8 months ago
      I have this same dollhouse. My grandfather gave it to me also in 1965 for my birthday. I had the same labels on green shutters. I still have some of the furniture and I've fixed it up - added shingles to the roof, crown molding, hardwood floors and just put in wooden windows that open (my older brother shot out the plastic windows with a dart gun). I can't find another Tynietoy Townshouse online with the same floor plan that we have.
    3. keramikos, 8 months ago
      Hi, KE1966. :-)

      Google Lens turned up some twins and/or near twins.

      Here are a couple of images at Alamy that seem to be taken at different angles of the interior of the same doll house, described as a "Cape Cod style":

      https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-vintage-cape-cod-style-dollhouse-53584713.html

      https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-vintage-cape-cod-style-doll-house-53584714.html

      Here's one that's also described as a Cape Cod style, but the design is attributed to an architect named Albert Neely Hall, and produced by an outfit called Craft Patterns:

      https://www.dollshousespastandpresent.com/issue7nov2010p8.htm

      Here's the raw OCR conversion of the text in the image of the order form:

      HERE'S the thing to make your living doll happy for Christmas or birthday.
      The very latest for little homemakers, this up-market Cape Cod dolls house is 53.34 cm (32 ins) wide, 81.28 cm (21 ins) deep and 81.28 cm (21 ins) high and has five rooms and a bathroom.
      It is built of 6 mm (in) plywood with the rear wall and part of the roof omitted and a side wall which opens to give access to rooms.
      On a scale of 2.5 cm (1 in) to 30.48 cm (12ins), the packet includes full-size floor and wall patterns to trace onto plywood, patterns for dolls' furniture, electric wiring diagrams and die-cut cardboard window sashes.
      There are also patterns for the green paper shutters, a paper door front, special brick patterned paper for the steps and for the mantelpiece and the chimney.
      You'll have lots of fun making this dolls house and It will give your daughter hours of indoor pleasure.
      To obtain the pattern to build the Cape Cod Dolls" House C1110, send $7 with the coupon on this page. The new illustrated catalogue showing a full range of plans available may be obtained by sending $3 with the coupon.
      HOW TO GET PATTERN
      No. C1110
      Call at our Reader Service Dept, 23 Hamilton Street, Sydney, or on the ground floor, 235 Jones Street, Broadway, or print details on coupon below. Enclose postal order for $5 each, and post to SUN-HERALD PATTERN SERVICE, BOX 506, GPO, SYDNEY, 2001.
      Name
      Address
      Enclosed is AT
      for Pattern No.(s).
      Postcode
      for $
      3. Cheque, Postal/Money Order
      DO NOT SEND COINS

      Here's a Worthpoint listing for the Craft Patterns Cape Cod dollhouse:

      https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/craft-patterns-doll-house-packet-cape-431166564

      Here's a near twin on Facebook:

      https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=462083479283415&set=a.462083449283418

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