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Antique toys bring back ghosts of Christmases past
Trisha Coftell profiles the Brandywine River Museum show A Brandywine Christmas for Children featuring 100 plus 19th and early 20th century toys from Bernard Barenholtz. The exhibit traces toymaking from wooden tops and tin engines to cast iron banks and clockwork tin toys, including a Santa drawn by goats and a Calamity bank. It runs daily 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Jan. 7 at Brandywine River Museum Chadds Ford.
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Trisha Coftell
Daily Times
Santa
Brandywine
Brandywine River Museum
Bernard Barenholtz
North Pole
Philadelphia
Lancaster
Francis, Fields and Francis Co
Santa’s
Barenholtz
River Museum
Creative Playthings
James Fallon
Milk Wagon Company
America
Nicholas Wyeth
Ann Wyeth McCoy
Baltimore Pike
Chadds Ford
Brandywine River
Long Island
Barenhholtz