The Butterfly Catcher featured a beautifully crafted net, one of many miniature tools that adorned the dolls. The base was a button blank, made out of casein, a derivative of milk.
Another example was the mini-watering can (shown below as a brooch pin), which were made by student children of local friends - they became a staple thanks to the Mary Mary Quite Contrary theme.
For the launch of the Austin Metro in 1980, Liberty featured a Metro car in the scarf department on the ground floor to mark the big moment of national pride. Ann was asked to create some Metro merchandise to sell and the ‘Metro Boy’ was born, using the a wooden model below made by Hugh. The boy doll had the car tucked under his arm and were labelled either ‘Michael’ or ‘Edward’ after the then British Leyland chief executive, Sir Michael Edwardes.
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