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ID number:  WB-HC0938
Institution:  Winterbourne House and Garden
Named collection:  Winterbourne House Collection
Title / Object name:  The Children's Treasury
Object type:  Book
Date made:  1922
Materials:  Paper
Measurements:  overall: 26 cm x 20 cm (H x W x D x Dia x Wt)

The Children's Treasury. Belonged to donor's grandmother. Donor's grandparents William and Florence (nee Nicholls) Dickenson were employed by Bell & Nicolson as travelling salesman for baby clothes and draper's assistant - donor occasionally wore the samples. William Dickenson started at Bell & Nicolson in 1906 at 16 and stayed till retirement in 1950s by which time he was a buyer.

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