This grisly 1840 doll-sized butcher shop with miniature animal carcasses and a floor covered in sawdust and blood would be shockingly graphic to our modern sensibilities. After all, here in the 21st century, we like to remain cheerfully oblivious about where our meat products come from.
But in Victorian times, such detailed model butcher shops were not uncommon, says Sarah Louise Wood, a curator at the Museum of Childhood at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The real question is: Why exactly do such things exist?
(thanks Lisa)
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Because that is what the butcher shop in town would look like. It wasn't a horrifying image to the kids, it was what you saw when you went to shops with mom or the nanny. In those times you didn't try to hide kids from the real world, pretending it's all rainbows and fluffy bunnies. Maybe in 100 years people will be shocked that we have toys like brooms, tool sets and so on for kids, after all how dare we make the little lambs learn about work.
Spot on, Ladybelle. Toys reflected the real world, things kids could relate to. Grisly? I think not.
The real question should be: Why exactly don't exist such things anymore?
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