Brief description: Ceramic and fabric decorative pin cushion of Tony Weller, about 1900
Label: A pin cushion is any padding or stuffed fabric that can be used to safety store pins and needles by poking them with the sharp tips. During and after Dickens's lifetime it was fashionable to make 'half-dolls' which were attached to pin cushions as decoration. This doll, one of a set of five, depicts Tony Weller, a character from Dickens's first novel The Pickwick Papers.
Collection: Object
Object number: DH258
Object type: pin cushion
Production date: ca.1900

Pin cushion of Tony Weller