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A Camberwick Painting by numbers set produced by Philmar in 1970
User beware ! Any thoughts about being able to match the quality of the box lid were probably a tad optimistic !
Trumptonalia.
Paint by Numbers
The box is approximately 36 cm x 26 cm x 2.5 cm ( or,in inches,about 14 x 10 x 1 )
Contents :-
- Everything except the water ! ...
- 5 Pictures - 3 large + 2 smaller.
- Small supplementary information note
- Brush
- Solid blocks of water colour paint.
- Internal packaging = pre-formed plastic tray with 2 mixing wells,plus a thin card shelf that the pictures sit on.
The "5 pictures to paint" mentioned on the box lid are just thin grade paper.
3 large and 2 smaller ones.And the smaller ones shown here are "as sold", and haven't been cut-down.
There's also a small slip of "Please Note" paper shown above.
In fact this example is all completely untouched.
And the only question mark about its originality is clearly the over-sized brush - unless Philmar decided to change to a bigger one after the plastic trays had been designed.
Which seems odd if true.But maybe not that far-fetched considering the rest of the set is completely "as was".
Although without a photo of the contents in a sales brochure somewhere,we'll never know.
User experience ?
Obviously the whole idea of painting by numbers is to make it easier for those concerned.
But I'd imagine that many actually found the experience pretty frustrating.
Because some of those numbered sections are pretty darn small for a pre-school child to have to fill in.
And especially when they were having to deal with the less-than-precise qualities of a watery paint.
But click on them below and see if you think I'm being overly pessimistic. ( complete with some foxing btw.)
