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a toy manufacturer. Their philosophy was that toys should be functional in design as well as educational in play. In 1932, they held a toy exhibition in their
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flat. They set up a mail-order business, with a catalogue illustrated by
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54:, London. Paul, born 1899 in Bolton, was from a
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