Dear RG,
I have tried to email you, but my message has been returned as “undeliverable”.
In answer to your questions –
Yes, you may.
No, I don’t mind you asking – if you don’t ask, you will never know !
I am sorry, I don’t have a Cinderella scene for this theatre.
I found the parts that I do have in a small second-hand book market that used to be held on the South Bank of the River Thames, by the Royal Festival Hall. It was years and years ago now.
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The above images above are 80 ppi – They are not the best quality but they are “not bad”.
They should each print onto an A4 piece of paper / card – they are SMALLER than the original pieces.
In order to make the theatre at this size, I would use at least 140 / 160 gsm paper.
Sometimes this weight of paper is sold as “card”.
I am in the UK and I would look for something called “cartridge paper” – basically you will have to find a card / paper that works for you !
Everything that I wrote about scoring, folding, etc for the miniature version of this theatre I would say again for this size.
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4th May 2013 – Sharon has very kindly shared a couple of links, please see the comments for her full explanation –
I recently came across a link to this “set” on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/taffeta/sets/72157614068345415/
… Images for the theater in this post were published in the magazine in 1924. They can be found starting in the middle of the third row of images… The images are posted by the “owner” of the Agence Eureka blog, where she has posted hundreds of vintage paper projects over the years… http://bibigreycat.blogspot.com/
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I have been busy this week, and I am still paying back the “Blog Time” that I borrowed earlier, so to be very, very quickly –
I make the cloth books as an antidote to “This has to be exactly right” book-binding.
This ABC book is based on one published in the late 19th Century by the McLoughlin Brothers in the USA.
The books are very flexible and can be opened and “posed” in a variety of ways. If they are left open for any length of time they will need to be placed under a solid weight, or between other books on a miniature bookshelf, in order to shut flat again.
The smallest text is just about readable without a magnifying glass.
Just as it does in real-life cloth books, the printing on the interior pages wanders up and down a bit – particularly on the last page.
The top and bottom edges of the pages are slightly rough.
These “faults” are intentional and reflect the condition of the original book.
Size when closed – 1 inch x 3/4 of an inch (2.5 cm x 1.9 cm)
PLEASE NOTE – the books are not “toys”, they are “collector’s items”
Thanks for sharing! I wish I had a working printer.. =)
The theatre is so cute.
Hannah
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Never mind, save the image files and when you do have a printer they will be waiting for you 🙂
Elizabeth
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I recently came across a link to this “set” on Flickr:
All of the images can be downloaded in a variety of sizes.The set is comprised of projects from the “Ill. Famile Journal”…published in the 1920’s. Images for the theater in this post were published in the magazine in 1924. They can be found starting in the middle of the third row of images. The images are described as “hi res”, but the originals appear grainy and aged. They look, to me, like they are printed on newsprint paper, like colored comics pages in newspapers. I think they would take a lot of work to use, but if someone wanted to experiment with different sizes, or do their own “clean up” work on the images, they might like to experiment with them. As you will see, there are other theaters and construction projects included in the Flickr set.
Unfortunately, all of the instructions are in a foreign language (I believe it is Dutch). It would be laborious, but you could type the instructions into Google Translate if the diagrams aren’t fully self-explanatory. I’ve actually made a 1/144th scale house from the very first project shown in the set. I did this by printing the full-sized JPEG images as “wallet size photos” (I used Picasa for that).
The images are posted by the “owner” of the Agence Eureka blog, where she has posted hundreds of vintage paper projects over the years. I believe that the set of images I made my little house from had been cleaned up for posting on her blog…I remember them being a lot clearer than the original versions shown in this Flickr set. Still, you can do a lot of clean-up on your own with Microsoft’s Picture Manager (using the autocorrect option, and also the “Enhance Color” option which whitens a discolored background and balances the colors).
Here is a link to the Agence Eureka blog:
http://bibigreycat.blogspot.com/
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Thank you Sharon, these look very interesting !
They look just like mine, but in better condition 🙂
Mine are definately printed on the paper used for newspapers, which is very poor quality and deteriorates FAST, so I am really glad someone has scanned these before they fall apart completely.
One of the pages has Kobenhaven written down the bottom, so I think they are Danish.
I am sorry to say that I think Google translate is (mostly) absolutely useless however, most of the models do look as though they should be easy enough to put together without needing step by step instructions.
What a find, thank you again for sharing the information. It was very kind and generous of you.
I will have to see if I can find time to play with the Cinderella scene for the theatre 🙂
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