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    Into the toybox: where to buy traditional toys

    Dec 09, 2020 1 minute

    Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop, Covent Garden, London WC2 (020–7379 7866; www.pollocks-coventgarden.co.uk)

    ‘If you love art, folly or the bright eyes of children, speed to Pollock's,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson about), which include reproductions from around the world

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