Tri-ang No 45circa 1930s
 
I saw this on a local auctioneer's website on the morning of the auction. It looked like a Tri-ang from the photo so I put in a phone bid (so exciting) and won it for a very reasonable price.
That afternoon I rushed to the auction house to find this shabby shack waiting for me. On close inspection the base was rotten and the backboard a crude replacement. However the windows and doors were intact and I was persuaded not to chop it into tiny bits!
So, I set about removing the base and backboard (held on with 2 pins) and stripped the wallpaper away to reveal a peppering of woodworm. Ahhhhh!
I treated the woodworm and filled all the holes with miliput. I've ordered the wood and hope to get it finished this autumn as I know it could be a beautiful house. It is deco in style, from the same era as Tri-ang's flat roof series, and has some interesting internal features including a curved staircase with an archway leading to a nook underneath.
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A year or so later, Jes has now continued the story...
2 years on from purchasing this wreck I finally got round to finishing it. No mean feat. A new backboard and baseboard were cut and constructed. All holes and eaten away areas were reconstructed with millput and sanding took 2 whole days!
  
Colours for interior and base were matched from tester pots. The external colour is a soft cream silk which should age gently. The windows were repainted more neatly and reglazed with acetate (as they had been). Floor papers were recreated in photoshop except for the kitchen where I added some vintage Hobbies tiled paper. I had some of the original brickpaper which they used in the garage so that was straightforward. My friends Libby and Bill helped by making up the missing chimney and hurrah! it was completed!
 
Small Bedroom Master Bedroom
 
Lounge Kitchen
I have furnished it for now in 1940s/50s Barton furniture although the house itself dates to late 30s/early 40s (they were discontinued by end of WW2). I don't have the budget for contemporary deco but I think the Barton looks good - nicely aged!
Amersham House circa 1940s
 
I saw this house in a dolls house shop where it languished for some time before I took pity on it. It was made by Amersham, probably in the 1940s, but am afraid it had been substantially "renovated". If anyone has a twin of this house I would love to see some photos to help me put it right. It is furnished with Dol-toi pieces from the 1940s/50s. On the kitchen table is a roast chicken with pivoting legs!
IF ANYONE CAN HELP JESAMINE AND HAVE PHOTOS OF A HOUSE SIMILAR TO THIS ONE IN IT'S ORIGINAL CONDITION, CONTACT KT MINIATURES AND WE WILL FORWARD ON TO HER ANY RELEVANT INFORMATION.
Tri-ang No 61 circa 1950s
 
Another Xmas gift, this is a funny little house as you can't actually see most of the contents due to its odd layout and most of the ground floor is given over to the garage and carport. I bought it from the original owner who said she was given it in the 1950s. It is furnished with Dol-Toi items, including an early pink table and dresser.
Tri-ang R. circa late 1950s
 
This is a peculiar little house dating to the late 1950s. As with many Tri-angs it has lights in half the house - we were able to get these working with a new battery pack.
 
Bedroom Bathroom
 
Lounge Kitchen
It is quite small, even for 1/16, as you can see in the kitchen - compact and bijou to say the least! It doesn't have the usual metal windows of other Tri-angs of the period, instead having plastic rectangular windows. The furniture is all Dol-Toi, from the 50s and early 60s; the inhabitants are Grecon dolls.
Tri-ang Cex circa 1960s
Where it all started...this house was given to me for Xmas in 2001.
It came with its original bathroom and kitchen fittings but I have stored these away as they are not very attractive! It was well furnished with Dol-toi and Barton pieces (which I have also kept), all from the early 1960s which is when this house was made. It is currently crammed with Barton pieces from the 1960s, as can be seen in the picture.
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